Summary
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A senior backend engineering position focused on designing reliable services, scalable architectures, and cloud-based infrastructure. The role covers the full software lifecycle from design through production support.
Highlights
Senior backend role with ownership of architecture, infrastructure, and production systems. Offers exposure to modern cloud technologies and complex engineering challenges.
Description
Senior Backend Software Engineer / Developer (Python) London / WFH to £120k
Are you a technologist with start-up experience looking for your next opportunity?
You could be progressing your career at a tech start-up that is producing an AI native data pipelining platform.
As a Senior Backend Software, you'll own the orchestration engine that controls scheduling, execution, state, retries, concurrency and cancellation, using Python, FastAPI and AWS in a high velocity production environment.
You'll design for unpredictable workloads, solving challenges around capacity, back pressure and isolation, while building the AI native layer that will underpin the next generation of the product.
You'll own your infrastructure end-to-end, writing Terraform, monitoring what you ship and resolving issues in production.
Working across the full development lifecycle, you'll take features from idea through to production, collaborate directly with customers to solve complex real-world problems and use your technical insight to influence the product roadmap.
As part of a small, ambitious engineering team, you'll also have a genuine opportunity to shape engineering standards, culture and ways of working.
Location / WFH:
You'll join colleagues in the London office (close to Waterloo) with flexibility to work from home twice a week.
About you:
You have advanced backend Python coding skills, including FastAPIYou have a good understanding of system architecture, design and scalabilityYou have experience of working on distributed systemsYou're familiar with other technology in the stack including: AWS, IaC using Terraform, Docker, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, CI/CD, GitHub actions, Blacksmith runnersYou're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills, keen to input into technical discussion and decision making
What's in it for you:
Salary to £120kEquityImpactful role with excellent career progression as the company scalesHybrid workingPension
Apply now to find out more about this Senior Backend Software Engineer / Developer (Python FastAPI AWS) opportunity.
