Python Software Engineer

Join us as a Software Engineer
This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
Day-to-day, you'll build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career
We're offering this role at associate level
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.
You’ll be working within a feature team and using your extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
You’ll also be:
Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
Working in permanent teams with responsibility for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
The skills you'll need
To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.
You’ll also need:
At least five years’ hands-on Python backend development experience, building production-grade REST APIs and microservices using FastAPI
Strong experience with MongoDB and AWS, including data modelling, cloud deployment, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting.
Solid engineering practices across Git, CI/CD, testing, Docker, API security, monitoring, and production support, with strong ownership of delivery
A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
19/10/2026