Senior Python Engineer - AI & Microservices
£450 PD (Outside IR35) | 3-to-6-month Contract | 2 days onsite in London (Hybrid) | ASAP Start
Our trusted technology partner is developing innovative products and is looking for an experienced Senior Python Engineer / Back End Developer to join a fast-moving team.
You will develop Python microservices, scalable services, voice chat, and data pipelines, using AI technologies including ASR, TTS, and LLMs.
The ideal candidate will have strong Python skills, a pragmatic delivery-focused approach, and the ability to take ownership in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain scalable Python services, microservices, voice chat, and data pipelines.
- Work with the Tech Lead and wider team on architecture, technical decisions, and solution design.
- Collaborate with product, data science, QA, design, and subject matter experts to deliver new features.
- Ensure applications meet high standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and quality.
- Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, requirements, and user stories.
- Take ownership of technical issues and support an end-to-end DevOps approach.
- Mentor less experienced developers and share technical knowledge.
- Stay current with developments in AI, cloud engineering, and language assessment.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Strong commercial Python development experience, including object-oriented and functional programming.
- Strong experience with FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Pytest, and type checking.
- Experience with Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter, OpenTelemetry, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Docker.
- Experience developing microservices and/or Lambda-based solutions.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience working with AI/ML technologies, particularly ASR, TTS, LLMs, or related tooling, is highly desirable.
- AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Hugging Face, PyTorch/TensorFlow, or Generative AI tooling would be advantageous.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable taking ownership and working in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
- This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Python Engineer / Back End Developer to work on a cutting-edge product using modern microservices, cloud, and AI technologies within a fast-paced, collaborative team.
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