Backend Engineering Team Lead - Python

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At Xelix, we work with some of the world’s largest companies to automate and strengthen their financial controls. Our AI solutions redefine how Accounts Payable teams operate – moving from manual processes to automated, intelligent workflows.

Xelix is a fast‑paced scale‑up – things move fast and expectations are high. We raised our Series B with Insight Partners in June 5 and are expanding aggressively. We have a team of 150 talented people pulling together to achieve our goals. Everyone is trusted to take ownership, move fast and have a meaningful impact. We prioritise personal and professional growth, keep things fun, and love to celebrate a milestone together.

In this role you’ll grow, be challenged and help shape the future of Xelix. If you’re excited about building something special with us, we’d love to hear from you.

Xelix is looking for a Back‑End Team Lead to join our fast growing scale‑up. The role offers a mix of managerial tasks (leading a team of 3‑6 developers) and hands‑on coding, to ensure your technical skills are utilised and kept up to date.

The candidate will work alongside the existing Engineering Team Leads and report to the VP of Engineering.

We produce AI‑powered software that works with clients’ existing finance systems to identify payment risks and deliver meaningful insights.

Our mantra is “build for the long term” and so we take pride in our work – producing clean, tested, beautiful code. As a manager you will support your team in this by participating in code and design reviews, giving feedback to developers and encouraging their professional development. You will:

• Support developers when they are stuck on a problem
• Facilitate architectural decision making
• Share knowledge to maintain DRY principles and to ensure the codebase is consistent
• Keep up to date with industry developments and bring new technology to the team

You will be well supported to continue your professional development. This includes a conference allowance, a budget for L&D resources, and a monthly session with your manager to identify and track your learning goals.

Primarily you would be ensuring your team members are happy and productive.

• Mentoring, training and career planning for your team members
• Conducting monthly 1‑1 sessions.
• Collaborating with the Product Team to prioritise and allocate tasks
• Recruitment
• Promote managerial best practice with your team lead peers

We are seeking candidates who have 5+ years of professional development experience, a minimum of 2 years experience leading a development team of at least 3 people and a Computer Science or similar technical degree.

For a Python Team Lead we expect a strong understanding of the Python / Web development ecosystem including:

• Familiarity with building RESTful APIs with the Django Rest Framework. We are open to Flask experience too as understand this is easily transferable to Django
• Developing robust and scalable solutions in Python
• Relational databases (we use Postgre
  
  SQL on AWS)
• Implementing performance improvement strategies
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals

We have a Dev Ops team that manage CI/CD, Cloud, IaC etc. An understanding of common AWS services, Git Hub, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform is desirable but not essential.

💰 Competitive salary depending on experience

🏝️ 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing) which increases up to 3 days based on tenure, with the option to roll over, buy or sell up to 3 days

🏡 Hybrid working with one day a week from our dog‑friendly Hoxton office

💪 On‑site gym and cycle to work scheme

🛍️ Employee discount at over 100 retailers

Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality

🍼 Enhanced parental leave pay

📚 Learning & development culture – £1,000 personal annual budget

🌍 We’re carbon‑neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals

🎯 Lots of team socials & activities

☀️ Annual team retreat

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