# Lead Backend Engineer

**Company**: Zego
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Zego, we're on a mission to transform insurance with AI-driven technology.

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will guide a team of engineers, designing and building Python microservices for our insurance platform, focusing on security, observability, and scalability.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead engineers within a team, guiding their work towards user value and business opportunity

- Design, build, and own Python microservices for our insurance platform

- Drive architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams

- Deliver large-scale technical initiatives end-to-end

- Coach and mentor engineers to improve team performance

- Improve team workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and incident response

Requirements:

- Deep backend expertise with hands-on experience in cloud-native microservices, preferably with Python

- Experience building distributed architectures and understanding performance tuning and observability

- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design

- Ability to lead by example through mentoring and clear communication

- Proactive collaboration with non-technical stakeholders

- Daily use of AI tools with a willingness to learn and experiment

We offer:

- Market-competitive salary

- Annual performance bonus

- Share options

- Private medical insurance

- Pension and generous holiday

- £1,000 a year for transport or learning

- Cutting-edge systems and tools

Our workplace:

- Hybrid model with flexible working arrangements

- Regular team meetups and annual company-wide events

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- cloud-native microservices
- distributed architectures
- performance tuning
- observability
- data structures
- algorithms
- system design
- AI

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