Mid-level Backend Engineer

Suade is a market-leading regtech SaaS 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 are looking for a Mid-level Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale our regulatory reporting platform. You'll own features end-to-end - collaborating directly with product to shape requirements, and with the engineers around you to deliver them. You'd be joining 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.

Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 based on experience

Please note:

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Candidates who need visa sponsorship now, or will need visa sponsorship in 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.

[or use the following for fully on-site roles] 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.

Requirements

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 FastAPI (or a similar web framework)

Strong SQL skills and hands-on production experience with SQLalchemy/PostgreSQL

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 ClickHouse or another columnar/OLAP database

Experience with Go or Rust, or 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