StarCompliance - Software Engineering Team Lead (Python)
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Requirements
• Leadership & Management • Proven experience leading and managing small engineering teams with accountability for outcomes. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders. • Experience guiding architectural decisions and setting technical direction. • Demonstrated coaching and mentoring capability. • Ability to align technical decisions with business and regulatory objectives. • Experience building sustainable, high-performing engineering teams • Strong understanding of Python and modern software engineering practices. • Experience with enterprise-scale, service-oriented or microservices-based systems. • Solid grasp of object-oriented design and system architecture principles. • Experience overseeing delivery of large or complex software initiatives. • Knowledge of cloud platforms and architectures (AWS, Azure preferred). • Experience with API-based integrations. • Strong security mindset, particularly in regulated environments. • Ability to analyse requirements and translate them into clear technical direction. • Comfortable evaluating and adopting new technologies where appropriate • Experience or interest in crypto or digital assets. • Hands-on Python experience in production environments. • Exposure to Flask, MongoDB, Kafka, TypeScript, and AWS • Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server). • Experience with statically typed Python codebases. • Background in financial services (traditional finance or crypto). • Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD). • Experience with ORM frameworks (e.g. SQLAlchemy, Django ORM) • Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams. • Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership for complex, production-grade systems. • Strong working knowledge of Python and modern backend development practices. • Experience designing, delivering, or overseeing service-oriented or API-driven systems. • Experience operating in cloud-based environments (AWS or equivalent). • Strong understanding of secure software development practices. • Experience working in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments. • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Eligibility to pass StarCompliance pre-employment screening. • ## Integrity and Ethics
Responsibilities
• Technical Leadership & Architecture • Own and guide the technical architecture of the crypto compliance product, ensuring it meets StarCompliance standards for security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability. • Act as the primary decision-maker for technical trade-offs within the product, escalating only where decisions materially impact broader platform or organisational strategy • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term technical sustainability. • Provide clear technical direction on system design, service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns • Ensure alignment with StarCompliance architectural principles, cloud standards, and security requirements. • Serve as the senior technical point of contact for the crypto product • ## Team Leadership & Enablement • Line-manage and lead a small development team (3–5 Software Engineers), taking accountability for team performance, delivery outcomes, and technical quality. • Own resource deployment within the team, balancing delivery commitments, technical investment, and people development. • Create an environment where engineers are enabled to perform at their best through clear priorities and removal of impediments. • Coach, mentor, and develop engineers through regular feedback, guidance, and development planning. • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-trust team culture focused on ownership and continuous improvement • ## Delivery & Continuous Improvement • Take accountability for the end-to-end delivery of engineering outcomes for the crypto product. • Ensure applications and services are developed to a high standard and are fit for purpose in a regulated environment. • Drive solutions to complex technical and delivery problems, coordinating across teams where required. • Partner with Product Management to shape feasible technical approaches, delivery plans, and sequencing. • Champion modern software engineering practices including testing, documentation, and operational readiness. • Promote security-by-design and embed secure engineering practices. • Represent the crypto product’s technical interests in cross-engineering and architecture forums. • Identify and implement opportunities to improve processes, reduce risk, and increase team effectiveness