Back End Python Developer
Posted 1 day ago by Lorien
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The role of Python Developer involves working with AI technologies for a public sector client on a 6-month contract. The developer will be responsible for scalable services, voice chat, and data pipelines, collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize applications. The position requires strong Python skills and experience with modern development practices and tools. The role is classified as outside IR35 and offers a hybrid working arrangement with travel as needed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the Python services on the platform, including scalable services, voice chat, and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, experience designers, QA, and subject matter experts to develop and optimize the application.
- Contribute to the technical architecture and advise on third-party suppliers and partners.
- Develop, evolve, and maintain high-quality, scalable software applications.
- Contribute to requirement definition (user stories) and analysis.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and provide constructive feedback to peers.
- Stay updated with new developments in AI, cloud engineering, and language assessment.
Key Skills:
- Strong Python skills, including object-oriented and functional programming.
- Experience with the Fast API ecosystem (Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, Alembic) and strict type checking (Pylance/Pyright).
- Familiarity with common Python libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and Jupyter notebooks.
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Git/Github, Github actions, Docker, microservices, and/or lambdas.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Desirable skills include AWS (including certification), Terraform, Kubernetes, and advanced data science/ML tooling (scikit, TensorFlow, etc.).
- Familiarity with ML/Gen AI tooling such as Langchain, Langsmith, ML Flow, Dataiku, Data Robot, Sagemaker, Bedrock, Weights and Biases.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT