Python Developer

Job Title: Senior Python Developer

Location: Remote - UK

Contract Length: 12 Months

Rate: £550 - £575 (Inside IR35)

The Role

We're supporting a client looking for an experienced Python Engineer to design, build and optimise low-latency, high-throughput services within a cloud-native environment. You'll play a key role in developing scalable distributed systems, improving application performance and supporting production deployments across Kubernetes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high-performance Python services and APIs
• Profile, troubleshoot and optimise application performance
• Develop and support event-driven and near real-time systems
• Deploy, scale and debug applications within Kubernetes environments
• Contribute to software architecture and technical design decisions
• Support CI/CD pipelines, testing and release activities

Requirements

• 10+ years' professional Python development experience
• Strong performance tuning, profiling and optimisation expertise
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production environments
• API development using FastAPI, Flask, Django and/or gRPC
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets or event-driven architectures
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis capabilities
• Good understanding of concurrency, threading, multiprocessing and AsyncIO
• Experience working within Agile development teams

Desirable

• AWS, Azure or GCP experience
• Managed Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS or GKE)
• Cython, Rust or C extensions
• Experience building low-latency or high-throughput distributed systems