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Lead Software Engineer

Understanding Recruitmentlondon, london🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 2 Jun 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

You can drive innovation and technical direction in a high-growth fintech environment, leading a team while remaining hands-on with Python development. This hybrid role offers significant career growth and the opportunity to make a substantial impact on a cutting-edge platform, making it ideal for experienced backend engineers seeking leadership and development. Apply now to shape the future of financial technology!

Quick Overview

Salary
£130k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
london, london, United Kingdom
RustReactTypeScript

Job Description

Fastest Growing Start-up in the UK | Defense | Lead Software Engineer | Rust (No Rust Required)

We are partnered with one of the UK's fastest growing start-ups. They are a very technically focused group building cutting-edge decision making technology.

The company's founding team has real pedigree, with backgrounds from the UK Special Forces, Palantir and Helsing. They've been building for just over two years, and already have a lot of customers in the UK.

On-site | London

Up to 180,000 + Equity

Senior/Principal Software Engineers:

They're looking to add Senior/Principal Engineers to their team. The team are open to hiring pure backend engineers, or full-stack engineers. Their technical stack is Rust , Typescript and React on the frontend. They do not require any experience in any of these technologies , the team hire on pure technical acumen rather than years of experience with one language.

Bonus point if you have built:

  • High throughput systems
  • Event sourced architectures
  • Unified event models

No sponsorship is available at this time.

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