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Location: United Kingdom (Yorkshire and the Humber) Type: Permanent
Senior Python Engineer
Leeds or Manchester Based | Hybrid Working
Permanent | £55,000 - £70,000 + benefits
Are you ready to deliver modern, impactful digital services that genuinely make a difference? Join an award-winning digital consultancy known for shaping user-centred, high-scale software solutions across public and private sectors. Here, you'll solve complex technical problems while contributing to services that positively impact society.
We're seeking an experienced Senior Python Engineer to be part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary delivery team - helping to architect, develop, and deploy cloud-native, serverless solutions at scale.
The Role
- Act as a technical lead within agile squads, delivering high-quality, secure, and scalable Python applications.
- Design and develop event-driven, serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
- Build robust RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems following modern engineering practices.
- Collaborate closely with designers, researchers, and frontend engineers to build end-to-end digital services that are accessible and user-centred.
- Work across the full software development lifecycle: from architecture and prototyping to testing, deployment, and support.
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, helping raise technical standards across the team.
- Actively contribute to internal engineering communities, best practice initiatives, and external technical events.
- 5+ years' Python development experience, delivering complex back-end systems.
- Expertise in AWS Serverless technologies:
- AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, CloudWatch, CloudFormation.
- Strong working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or ARM).
- Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
- Solid front-end exposure with React or Angular (comfortable collaborating across the full stack when required).
- Practical experience in containerisation (e.g., Docker or Kubernetes).
- Skilled in modern development practices like CI/CD, TDD, and agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban).
- Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- £55,000 - £70,000 base salary
- Pension scheme
- 25 days annual leave + public holidays
- Life assurance
- Flexible benefits package
Reference: AMC/CSM/PD
Postcode: LS2 7DZ
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