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Atarus

Atarus

www.atarus.co.uk

8 Jobs

2 Employees

About the Company

Atarus is a specialist talent partner for businesses looking to scale high-performing engineering teams.

With over a decade of experience in building technical teams, our consultants have previously partnered with companies such as Trainline, Sky, ASOS, NatWest, Global Relay, OVO Energy, and many more.

We help organisations lay the foundations for sustainable growth by placing proven talent across DevOps & SRE, Software Engineering, QA, Product, Data, and AI.

If you're looking to scale your engineering teams with precision and pace, get in touch: taylor@atarus.co.uk

Listed Jobs

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Atarus
Job Title
Lead Software Engineer
Job Description
**Job title** Lead Software Engineer **Role Summary** Own end‑to‑end delivery of large‑scale, production‑grade systems for a high‑impact FinTech platform. Lead both backend (Python) and frontend (TypeScript/React) development, drive architectural decisions, mentor teammates, and champion a culture of continuous improvement, test‑first engineering, and cloud‑native resilience. **Expectations** - Deliver reliable, scalable code that powers nationwide FinTech services. - Merge DevOps principles: build, deploy, monitor, and iterate on production systems. - Advocate pragmatic solutions, balancing technical excellence with business impact. - Use modern tooling, including generative AI, to accelerate design, testing, and deployment. **Key Responsibilities** - Design, architect, and implement new platform features and infrastructure. - Own complex cross‑layer services (API, data pipelines, UI components). - Mentor junior and intermediate engineers and facilitate knowledge sharing across squads. - Champion test‑first practices; maintain high code coverage and automated pipelines. - Collaborate with product, design, data, and operations to ensure alignment on user needs and business goals. - Drive continuous improvement: refactor, benchmark, and optimize for performance and resilience. **Required Skills** - Python (3.x) backend development (REST, async, microservices). - TypeScript with React for modern web UIs. - Cloud‑native deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, automated testing, blue/green deployments). - Strong understanding of database design, caching, and message queues. - Experience with observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. - Familiarity with AI/ML tooling and generative AI technologies. - Excellent communication, teamwork, and mentoring skills. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - Professional certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect) preferred.
London, United kingdom
Hybrid
Senior
19-11-2025
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Atarus
Job Title
Full Stack Engineer
Job Description
**Job Title:** Senior Full Stack Engineer – FinTech Platform **Role Summary:** Design, develop, and operate secure, scalable back‑end and front‑end services for a national FinTech platform. Own the end‑to‑end delivery cycle, influence architecture, mentor peers, and champion test‑first, CI/CD practices while leveraging cloud‑native infrastructure and modern tooling, including AI‑assisted productivity. **Expectations:** Deliver production‑grade code on schedule, uphold high quality and security, influence architecture, guide junior engineers, collaborate across product, engineering, data, and QA teams, engage in continuous learning, and drive measurable product outcomes. **Key Responsibilities:** 1. Design and build large‑scale services in Python (FastAPI/Django) and PostgreSQL/BigQuery/MySQL. 2. Develop front‑end components with TypeScript, React, styled‑components; write unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests using Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress. 3. Deploy and maintain applications on AWS/GCP (ECS Fargate, GCP Compute) with Docker, Terraform, and GitHub Actions; manage infrastructure as code. 4. Lead architectural discussions, evaluate trade‑offs, document decisions, and ensure scalability, performance, and security. 5. Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing. 6. Collaborate with product, design, data, and ops squads to translate user stories into technical solutions and provide effort estimates. 7. Automate pipelines, monitor reliability, respond to incidents, and iterate on improvements; integrate Generative AI tools for coding, testing, or documentation. **Required Skills:** - Python, TypeScript, React, styled‑components, Jest, Cypress, pytest. - PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL. - AWS & GCP services, ECS Fargate, GCP Compute/Functions, Pub/Sub. - Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions; IaC experience. - Test‑driven development, CI/CD pipelines, automated releases. - Security best practices, authentication/authorization, data protection. - Adoption of emerging technologies, including AI‑assisted tooling. - Strong communication, mentoring, and cross‑functional collaboration. **Required Education & Certifications:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field; or equivalent industry experience.
London, United kingdom
Hybrid
28-11-2025
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Job Title
Software Engineer - Python and TypeScript
Job Description
**Job title:** Software Engineer – Python & TypeScript (Senior Backend) **Role Summary:** Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, production‑grade services for a FinTech platform. Own end‑to‑end Python services, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate cross‑functionally to deliver secure, high‑performance solutions. **Expectations:** - Deliver reliable, scalable backend systems used nationwide. - Own core services and distributed systems lifecycle (design, develop, run). - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to squad improvement. - Balance technical rigor with pragmatic simplicity. - Leverage modern tooling, including generative AI, to accelerate delivery. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design, implement, and maintain large‑scale Python microservices (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL). - Own core APIs, data pipelines, and platform layers, ensuring performance, security, and resilience. - Drive architectural decisions across data, API, and platform components. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, ECS Fargate, Terraform). - Collaborate with product, data, and engineering squads to solve user problems and iterate rapidly. - Mentor team members, enforce test‑first practices, and champion continuous improvement. - Produce high‑quality, well‑tested code (pytest) and maintain automated testing, deployment, and monitoring. - Explore and integrate generative AI tools to support development and decision‑making. **Required Skills:** - Senior‑level experience with Python (3+ years) - Strong functional‑system design and distributed architecture experience - Deep knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and column‑store analytics (BigQuery) - CI/CD expertise (GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform) - Cloud proficiency (AWS, GCP, ECS Fargate) - Familiarity with large‑scale system monitoring, logging, and alerting - Experience mentoring or leading engineering squads - Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Jest, Cypress, styled‑components is a plus - Proficiency in test‑driven development and automated testing frameworks - Comfortable operating in a DevOps culture (“you build it, you run it”). **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent professional experience). - No mandatory certifications, but knowledge of AWS/GCP certifications is advantageous.
London, United kingdom
Hybrid
03-12-2025
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Job Title
Software Engineer - Contract
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Job title: Software Engineer – Contract Role Summary: Full‑stack engineer building and refining production systems using Python for backend services and TypeScript/React for front‑end applications, while designing APIs, data flows, and user‑facing features across the entire stack. Expactations: Deliver high‑quality, maintainable code in a test‑first, continuous‑deployment environment; own features from conception to production and iteration; influence architectural decisions and engineering standards; mentor teammates and contribute to a collaborative, learning culture. Key Responsibilities: • Design and implement backend services in Python with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and BigQuery. • Develop front‑end user interfaces in TypeScript, React, and styled‑components. • Build and maintain APIs, data flows, and end‑to‑end feature pipelines. • Write unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests using Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, and pytest. • Deploy and manage cloud resources on AWS and GCP, using ECS Fargate, Terraform, and Docker. • Implement CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, ensuring automated builds, tests, and deployments. • Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering squads to deliver impactful outcomes. • Contribute to engineering best practices, code reviews, and mentoring. Required Skills: • Advanced Python development for backend services. • Front‑end expertise in TypeScript, React, and component styling. • Relational database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and data warehouse experience (BigQuery). • Proficiency with testing frameworks: Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytest. • Containerization with Docker, infrastructure as code (Terraform), and cloud platform proficiency (AWS, GCP). • CI/CD pipeline creation (GitHub Actions). • Strong engineering fundamentals, problem‑solving, and continuous learning mindset. Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience). • Optional but preferred certifications in AWS, GCP, or DevOps practices.
London, United kingdom
Hybrid
12-12-2025