Lead Python Engineer

Godel Technologies is a leading technology partner with a unique agile delivery approach and a large pool of software engineering talent across Europe. The company addresses software engineering skills challenges for UK-based companies and has received multiple awards including Real IT Awards 2019, Computing.co.uk DevOps Excellence Awards 2018, and European Software Testing Awards 2017. It has been recognized in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 for 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Must have:

• Strong Python engineering skills, experience in building large-scale applications
• Experience working with AWS services
• Good understanding of integration patterns, API development (REST / GraphQL), and third-party system interoperability
• Solid experience in building automated tests: unit, integration, and E2E tests
• Passion for clean code, peer reviews, and high code quality standards
• Familiarity with scaling large systems — vertical scaling, single-tenant deployments
• Self-driven, comfortable with autonomy and open team cultures (trust > process)
• Readiness to work with Windows (WSL)

Nice to have:

• Code generation tools, AI assistants – Amazon Q, Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.
• Experience working in the financial services domain would be beneficial

• Lead and mentor the engineering team
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable finance-focused backend solutions using Python
• Integrate external systems and third-party APIs
• Work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to define, size, and solve real-world telecom customer problems
• Write high-quality, well-tested code ensuring reliable daily deployments to production
• Participate in peer reviews, refinements, and continuous feedback loops across a multi-disciplinary team
• Maintain a developer-first quality culture: own unit, integration, and functional testing
• Be part of a weekly engineering goal-setting process

This position is available exclusively to candidates from Poland. Remote work is possible, but candidates are expected to be willing to make occasional office visits, such as for client visits, team-building events, company events, or other important in-person meetings.