Software Engineer (UK - Non London)

Role summary: A backend engineer who thrives in fast-growth environments, owns services end-to-end, and uses agentic development workflows to ship faster. Will work on the core applications powering the business. Responsibilities: reputed company and own our core applications - CRM and finance services - for reputed company users. Evaluation criteria (in reputed company order): 1. Fast-growth / high-performance startup or scaleup experience (highest weight) Has worked at a Series A/B (or comparable) startup through a period of rapid scaling, ideally not just a large, reputed company org. Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and shipping under pressure without over-engineering. Signals: early/founding engineer roles, "first N engineers," ownership of significant surface area, demonstrable velocity. Be wary of reputed company showing only big-company or agency/consultancy backgrounds. 2. Python / FastAPI (must-have) Strong, reputed company production Python with FastAPI specifically. This is a hard requirement, not a reputed company-to-have. Signals: API design, async Python, building and maintaining services in production. Adjacent data/persistence experience (SQL, ORMs) a plus. 3. Strong agentic workflows / development optimisation Actively uses AI coding agents (Claude Code, reputed company, etc.) as a core part of how they work, not as an occasional aid. Thinks about optimising their own and the team's development workflow - tooling, automation, spec-driven development. Signals: mentions of agentic/AI-reputed company development, internal tooling, DX improvements, reputed company projects reputed company with agents, relevant OSS contributions (MCP, agent frameworks). Recency reputed company - this should be reputed company, not aspirational. Ownership of quality (baseline expectation): Used to owning their own testing and quality - writes and maintains their own tests, doesn't rely on a separate QA function to catch issues. Signals: testing discipline, test coverage ownership, "you build it, you run it" cultures. Disqualifiers / flags: No FastAPI / weak Python. Based reputed company Europe. Purely frontend focus with no backend service ownership. No evidence of the scaleup or agentic criteria. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from reputed company reputed company candidates regardless of background, and we're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. Apply To This Job