Lead Python Developer (EU)

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Lead Python Developer in the EU for a project developing a scalable GRC SaaS platform and delivering reliable compliance and risk management solutions.

Our customer is a European software and technology provider developing digital solutions that help organizations manage complex business, regulatory, and operational processes. Its platform supports greater transparency, efficiency, and control while helping businesses respond to evolving requirements and reduce operational risks. The company combines technology expertise with consulting, implementation, integration, and customization services, helping businesses streamline compliance processes and adapt to evolving regulatory requirements.

The project is focused on developing and enhancing a modular Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) SaaS platform that supports information security, risk management, business continuity, and data protection processes. It provides scalable and reliable compliance management capabilities for public sector organizations and large enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Leading architectural decisions for the schema-driven application layer in close collaboration with the client’s Product and Engineering teams.
• Driving the ongoing concept phase, including prototyping, validating architectural approaches, documenting findings, and presenting solutions to stakeholders.
• Defining what belongs in the generic declarative layer versus module-specific implementations across the remaining 21 modules.
• Acting as the primary technical point of contact for the client, coordinating task allocation across the augmented team, leading demos, and representing the team in stakeholder meetings.
• Reviewing the work of Backend and Full-Stack Engineers and ensuring architectural consistency across modules and the backend/frontend boundary.
• Leading and personally delivering the most complex full-aggregate module migrations.
• Defining and driving the contract-testing strategy using golden fixtures while ensuring backward compatibility with the legacy REST API.

Requirements

• Experience in backend engineering with lead experience for 6+ years.
• Hands-on Lead/Tech Lead experience including task allocation, code review ownership, and direct client-facing communication on production projects.
• Strong hands-on Python/Django/DRF background.
• Experience working with JavaScript/React.
• Experience with complex relational data modeling (ORM, FK/M2M, migrations), validation, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Understanding of permissions / RBAC / object-level visibility, with the ability to maintain backward compatibility in large production codebases.
• Strong architectural judgment, with the ability to make and challenge design decisions and balance generic abstractions vs. module-specific solutions.
• Strong automated testing practices using pytest, factories, contract / integration tests.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Desired skills

• Experience with schema-driven / metadata-driven / dynamic-UI-generation systems.
• Experience with React and modern frontend development.
• Prior experience specifically as an embedded lead in a staff-augmentation engagement.
• GRC, compliance, or other regulated enterprise SaaS domain experience.
• Knowledge of German.

Other important skills for the vacancy are described in the knowledge matrix

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment.

Join us!

Локации

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands