Software Engineering Lead (Python)

Job description

Role The Software Engineering Lead ( Python ) is an Associate Director–level role within StarCompliance’s R&D Engineering organisation, with accountability for the technical leadership and delivery of StarCompliance’s crypto compliance product. The crypto compliance product is a strategically important capability within StarCompliance’s emerging products portfolio, operating in a fast-evolving regulatory, technical, and market landscape. While StarCompliance broadly shares a common technology stack, this product is distinct in its primary use of Python, which this role provides leadership over. This role holds end-to-end accountability for the technical health, delivery outcomes, and operational sustainability of the crypto product, including architecture, engineering practices, delivery processes, and team capability. The Software Engineering Lead leads a small, highly skilled engineering team (typically 3–5 Software Engineers) and is accountable for how the team operates, how technical decisions align with business and regulatory objectives, and how engineering capability is built and sustained over time. While the role requires sufficient technical depth to review designs, guide...