At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team of engineers while developing innovative Python solutions.
- Company: Join Fundment, a modern tech company with a high-trust culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health insurance, and generous leave policies.
- Other info: Flexible hybrid working and a supportive team atmosphere.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by delivering code that enhances client outcomes.
- Qualifications: 5+ years of Python experience and leadership in agile environments.
As a Lead Python Developer at Fundment, you’ll lead a pod of 3 - 4 engineers, including yourself, combining hands-on development (around 50% of your time) with technical leadership. You’ll drive execution, uphold delivery quality, and ensure the team builds reliable, maintainable systems that serve real business needs. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers - reviewing PRDs to ensure they’re clear, technically feasible, and scoped appropriately. Enabling you to produce accurate estimation and help PMs prioritise effectively. While they focus on broader coordination, you’ll keep the pod aligned, focused, and delivering at a high standard.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development of features and fixes, writing clean, performant, secure code aligned with business goals
- Review PRDs with the PM to ensure clarity, highlight edge cases, and produce accurate estimation
- Own sprint planning, and pod-level execution, including scoping, sequencing and overseeing delivery
- Proactively elevate delivery risks, technical blockers or trade-offs to your Engineering Manager for input or alignment
- Lead initial architecture and technical design for your pod’s work, running a collaborative review process with EMs and other relevant leads before implementation
- Raise team standards through mentoring, code reviews, and setting strong technical example
- Ensure production readiness – triage and prioritise live issues with appropriate urgency, coordinating with App Support and escalating when needed
- Coordinate rollouts with the PM and App Support, ensuring smooth deployments and follow through after release
- Continuously improve local engineering practice, tooling and system resilience
- Represent your pod in scrum-of-scrums and cross-pod delivery initiatives
Requirements & Leadership
- 5+ years commercial Python experience in backend systems
- Experience leading a small pod or acting as tech lead in an agile environment
- Strong judgement on priorities, trade-offs, and production support
- Effective communicator, bridging the technical and non-technical discussions
- Business focused - weighs immediate and longer-term business impact against purely technical / theoretical enhancement
- Able to influence and gain trust through mentoring and unblocking
- Ownership mentality – takes responsibility for pod outcomes
- Experience gained in a small founder led/scaling business
- Knowledge of FCA compliance/Financial Services/regulated environment preferred
- Highly motivated to learn about Fundment’s products
Technical Expertise:
- Python: FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, PyTest, Pandas, Numpy
- Cloud: Experience supporting production systems
- Security & Compliance: Familiar with secure coding and regulated environments
Values
- Collaborative – Deliver as a team, communicate clearly, and prioritise collective outcomes
- Innovative – Challenge what doesn’t work, try new approaches, and keep improving
- Supportive – Help your team succeed, give clear feedback, and respect people’s context
- Trustworthy – Follow through, be transparent, and fix what you break
- Flexible – Adapt to changing needs, focus on outcomes, and protect time for deep work
Company Benefits
- Be part of a modern, inclusive, high-trust engineering culture
- Take ownership and ship code that directly improves client outcomes
- Work with a smart, friendly team that values balance, growth, and support
- Pension 6% employer contribution, minimum 2% employee contribution.
- BUPA Private Health Insurance – fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
- Medicash Cashplan – fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
- Travel insurance – fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
- Life Assurance – 4 x base salary.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Paid compassionate leave – up to 5 days per year.
- Enhanced paternity/maternity/adoption leave – 16 weeks at full pay after 12 months of service.
- Jury service – 10 days at full pay.
- Hybrid working arrangements – 3 days per week in the Fitzrovia office.
Lead Python Developer employer: Fundment Limited
Fundment is an exceptional employer that fosters a modern, inclusive, and high-trust engineering culture, making it an ideal place for the Head of Product Delivery role. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to lead impactful projects while enjoying comprehensive benefits such as fully paid private health insurance, generous leave policies, and a supportive work-life balance in the vibrant Fitzrovia area. Join us to make a meaningful difference in the wealth management sector with a smart and friendly team dedicated to innovation and excellence.
