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Software Engineer - Backend in Bath, United Kingdom

Bright Purple

  • RemoteWork from anywhere
  • HybridMix of office and remote
  • ContractFixed-term or freelance

£450 - £475 per day

Bath, United Kingdom

Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements:

  • 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:

We are partnering with a well-established B2B software business to recruit four contract Backend Software Engineers for a client portal redesign. This hands-on role is suited to experienced mid-level or senior Python engineers who will build APIs and backend workflows for new portal features and contribute to technical decisions within a collaborative product team that values good engineering and effective AI-assisted development. The contract offers £450–£475 per day, Outside IR35, and is based in Bath with hybrid or remote working options.

last updated 43 week of 2026

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