abound - Staff Python Software Engineer
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Requirements
• You will be working with a modern, scalable stack designed for high concurrency: • Backend: Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, OpenTelemetry, Procrastinate), Java • Cloud: AWS Environment • Databases: RDS (PostgreSQL & MySQL) • Technical Mastery: Exceptionally strong Python and SQL skills. • System Design: Deep knowledge of asynchronous development and proven experience dealing with highly concurrent systems. • Strategic Vision: The ability to balance immediate team needs with long-term platform health and developer velocity. • 🧬 How We Work at Abound • To be successful here, our culture needs to energize you. We are not a lender with thousands of pages of operational procedures to follow. Here is how we operate: • High Bar & Real Ownership: We are a high performing team, and we hire people who raise the bar and take pride in great work. We own outcomes, not tasks. You don’t assume someone else will do it; you follow up until the issue is resolved. • We Work Hard: We care about impact, not face time. But at key moments, we stay until the job is done. That can mean evenings or occasional weekends, especially around launches or live incidents. • MVP & Tech Debt Culture: We ship fast, learn from real customers and iterate. Early in a product’s life we optimise for speed to market and learning, not perfect enterprise architecture. We are comfortable amassing and actively managing technical debt through the lifecycle. • One Team Collaboration: We collaborate deeply and are curious about the whole business, not just our own lane. People routinely help outside their formal role when it moves Abound forward. • Office-First: We are hybrid but office first. At least 3 days a week in the office is a minimum. Being together is one of our performance advantages. • Thrive in Change: Priorities shift as we learn what works. Roles, teams and roadmaps evolve with the business. When there is no rulebook, we expect you to use good judgement for our customers and for Abound. • If you are looking for a highly collaborative environment where your technical decisions will shape the future of a rapid-growth business, we want you on the team.
Responsibilities
• Drive Cross-Cutting Impact: Lead cross-functional projects that create immediate business value. You will add new infrastructure, optimize deployment patterns, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to deliver an unmatched developer experience company-wide. • Optimisation: Design and update infrastructure patterns for meet practical demands around performance, scalability and reliability. • Set the Engineering Standard: Define and implement standard settings for how we write code across the business. This includes establishing best practices for shared design patterns across all teams. • Maintain Core Components: Take ownership of dependency maintenance and heavily contribute to our most complex, mission-critical shared services. • Enable, Don't Block: Act as a true team player. You will not hold other teams hostage to rigid central patterns or infrastructure; instead, you will collaborate closely with them to deliver on their needs and unblock their projects.
Benefits
• Everyone owns a piece of the company - equity • Hybrid with 3 days a week in the office • 25 days’ holiday a year, plus 8 bank holidays • 2 paid volunteering days per year • One month paid sabbatical after 4 years • Employee loan • Free gym membership • Team wellness budget to be active together - set up a yoga class, a tennis lesson or go bouldering
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