Software Engineer

SOFTWARE ENGINEER — PYTHON | 4 POSITIONS | REMOTE - AD HOC TRAVEL TO NEWCASTLE | £500 per day inside IR35 — BPSS, with SC eligibility THE ROLE Four engineers, on the same requirement, building a service that members of the public will actually use. It is Python on the back end with Flask and FastAPI, MongoDB underneath, JSON APIs between. Containerised with Docker, running on Linux, delivered through Git-based pipelines. Modern Python throughout rather than something inherited from 2014. Four positions at once usually means one of two things. Either a team is being built rather than a gap filled, or something is about to get a lot busier. Here it is both. YOU WILL Build and maintain production Python services using Flask and FastAPIDesign and consume JSON APIs, with MongoDB as the document storeContainerise with Docker and deploy onto LinuxWork in a Git-based CI/CD workflow with the rest of the engineering teamContribute to the DevOps side rather than throwing work over a wallBuild accessible front-end components where the service needs them ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS Production Python with Flask or FastAPI, not scriptingYou have built custom applications for a UK public sector organisationMongoDB or another document database in productionDocker and Linux, day to dayGit-based CI/CD as a normal way of workingAble to work 2 days per week at one of the northern hubsAble to pass a BPSS check, and be eligible for SC if it is later required ADVANTAGEOUS DWP experienceThe GOV.UK Design System on a real serviceA service you took through a GDS assessmentAccessibility work to WCAG standards WHY THIS ONE FULLY REMOTE - BPSS, not SC. Most government engineering contracts sit behind a clearance gate that takes months and shuts out people who have never held one. This one does not. Four positions, and the client has said openly that it could grow considerably. Getting in at the start of something is worth more than joining it later. And the work is visible. Public services are used by people who did not choose to use them and cannot go elsewhere, which is a better test of whether you built it properly than most commercial work will ever give you. THE DETAILS Location: Remote w/ Ad hoc travel to Newcastle Rate: £500 per day inside IR35 Clearance: BPSS required. You must also be SC eligible Positions: 4