Mid-level Backend Engineer

Suade is a market-leading regtech Saa S company with cutting‑edge technology that automates regulatory reporting, compliance and financial risk solutions for financial institutions.

Our technology outperforms the competition on every metric, and we are supported by unprecedented need for new technology to solve complex and growing regulatory burdens.

We serve Tier 1 banks across Europe, North America, and Asia.

We are looking for a Mid‑level Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale our regulatory reporting platform.

You'll own features end‑to‑end—collaborating directly with product to shape requirements and with colleagues to deliver them.

You’ll join a tight‑knit, enthusiastic team building software where precision genuinely matters.

If you enjoy solving complex data problems at scale and want your work to have real‑world impact, we’d love to hear from you.

• Please note
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates who need visa sponsorship now, or will need visa sponsorship in the future, will not be considered.
• This role is based in London. Suade has a flexible working policy but you will need to be available to come into the London office when required. Some travel may be required.
• This is a fully on‑site role, based in London. You will be expected to be in our London office 4 or 5 days per week. Some travel may be required.

Suade is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without bias.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship features independently, from technical design through deployment.
• Maintain and lead the improvement of existing features within the application.
• Write efficient, well‑tested code.
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to peers and junior engineers.
• Mentor junior engineers on Python best practices and software design.
• Collaborate with QA, product, and senior engineers to ship reliable, accurate features.
• Must-have
• 3–5 years of professional experience building production software in Python.
• Experience with Fast API (or a similar web framework).
• Strong SQL skills and hands‑on production experience with SQLAlchemy/Postgre SQL.
• Professional experience with Docker.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design.
• Solid grasp of Git and standard version‑control workflows in a team environment.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.
• Nice‑to‑have
• Hands‑on experience with Click House or another columnar/OLAP database.
• Experience with Go or Rust, or a strong aptitude to pick it up quickly.
• Professional experience processing large volumes of data (complex data pipelines).

Skills and Qualifications

• Track record of shipping and owning features in production.
• Clear communicator—able to explain technical decisions to peers and work directly with product.
• High attention to detail; accuracy is critical when outputs feed into regulatory filings.

Benefits

• 25 days' holiday + public holidays.
• Flexible holiday: choose when you take your holidays by swapping bank holidays if you would like.
• Additional tenure‑based holiday: an extra day of annual leave for every year of service after 2 years.
• Flexible working hours.
• £500 work‑from‑home set‑up budget when you join.
• £500 personal training & development budget per year.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (subject to conditions).
• Company pension (Nest).
• Perkbox benefits plan.
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