Backend Engineer - Python & Generative AI

We are hiring: Backend Engineer – Python & Generative AI

Location: Sheffield- Hybrid- Weekly 3 days in-office.

• Strong commercial experience developing Python backend applications, RESTful APIs and scalable distributed systems, using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django.
• Hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, including LLM integrations, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering and AI agent workflows.
• Good understanding of embeddings, vector databases, relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling and API integrations.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and secure software development practices.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with experience in production support, monitoring, debugging and AI evaluation. Frontend experience with React and TypeScript is desirable.

Key Skills: Python / Backend Development / FastAPI / REST APIs / Generative AI / LLM / RAG / LangChain / Vector Databases / AI Agents / SQL & NoSQL / Cloud / Docker / CI/CD / API Security