Staff Engineer - London

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead technical architecture, design, and long-term engineering roadmap.
• Develop and maintain complex, high-performance, and scalable systems.
• Mentor and guide engineers across multiple teams, fostering technical excellence.
• Conduct thorough code and design reviews, ensuring quality and security best practices.
• Collaborate with Research, Engineering, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Champion technical innovation and proactively address technical debt.

Requirements

• Technical skills:
• Previous demonstrable role(s) as Staff Engineer with relevant set of responsibilities and achievements
• Strong 5+ years of experience in Python backend development (Flask, Django, FastAPI or similar)
• In-depth experience with distributed systems or cloud computing, preferably in AWS
• Experience building and shipping end to end solutions
• Experience building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) and integrating with external services.
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases
• Experience working with message queueing technologies (SQS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/etc.)
• Solid understanding of coding standards, architectural patterns and test frameworks
• Expertise in instrumentation, observability and monitoring
• Soft skills:
• Mentorship & Influence - You inspire and elevate engineers across teams - you are a true force multiplier.
• Cross-Functional Communication - You communicate effectively with engineers and business leaders, switching between technical and business contexts.
• Technical Leadership – You are able to guide teams through complex technical decisions, balancing short-term delivery with long-term architectural health.

Location

• Paris or London.
• This role is hybrid, and you are expected to be in the office 3 days a week on average.
• Please expect some travel between offices on a reasonable cadence (e.g., every 4-6 weeks).