Commercial experience building and supporting backend services in production
Strong Python skills and production Django experience, including the ORM, migrations, configuration and testing
Experience designing maintainable REST APIs, with solid data modelling and relational database practice
Good knowledge of authentication, authorisation, single sign-on patterns and secure API design
A testing mindset and experience working with CI/CD
Confidence diagnosing application, database and performance issues in live environments
Understanding of cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally in AWS
Clear communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues
Nice to have: experience with FastAPI or another modern Python API framework
Nice to have: experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, Docker, Celery, Redis and Sentry
Nice to have: experience with asynchronous or event-driven processing
Nice to have: experience with AWS CDK, Terraform or similar
Nice to have: experience in agile, product-led or data-rich B2B environments
Responsibilities:
Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs using Python and Django
Own work end to end, from technical refinement through to deployment and monitoring
Work with product, programme management, QA, platform engineering and other developers to shape practical solutions
Make sound trade-offs across security, performance, maintainability, cost and delivery
Break complex work into clear increments and raise dependencies and risks early
Write clean, well-tested and well-documented code with good observability built in
Take part in code reviews and help improve test automation, CI/CD and production reliability
Technologies:
AI
API
AWS
Backend
CI/CD
Cloud
Celery
Django
Docker
FastAPI
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Python
REST
Redis
Security
Sentry
Terraform
More:
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