Senior Software Engineer

We're working with a technology company building high-performance backend platforms, and we're looking for an experienced Senior Python Backend Engineer to join the team on an initial 4-month contract.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building and improving production backend services.

This is NOT an AI, Data Engineering or Cloud Engineering position.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building production Python backend services using FastAPI
• Developing scalable REST APIs and distributed backend systems
• Working with event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Improving performance, reliability and maintainability of existing services
• Collaborating with experienced backend engineers on architecture and code quality

What we're looking for

• Commercial experience with FastAPI (or extensive modern Python API development)
• Experience designing and maintaining production REST APIs
• Background working with microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka , RabbitMQ or similar
• Strong SQL/database knowledge
• Experience with Pytest and automated testing
• Comfortable debugging and improving existing production code

Nice to have

• Docker
• SQLAlchemy
• Time-series or event-driven platforms

This role isn't right if...

• Your recent experience is primarily AI / LLM / RAG / Agentic AI
• You're mainly a Data Engineer
• You're primarily a Cloud/DevOps Engineer
• You're an Architect or Manager looking for a leadership role rather than hands-on coding

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving backend engineering problems and writing production Python every day.