Senior Backend Python Developer
Posted 2 days ago by Advanced Resource Managers Limited
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Summary: The Senior Backend Python Developer role is a 6-month contract position based in Leeds, requiring hybrid working with three days on-site. The position involves building and maintaining backend services and APIs, implementing business logic, and contributing to code quality through testing and reviews. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend development, particularly with Python, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure and microservices. The role is classified as inside IR35, with a daily rate of up to £450.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain Back End services and APIs in line with existing architectural patterns and standards.
- Implement business logic, data access layers, and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Develop and enhance RESTful APIs, following defined contracts and API standards.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, adhering to agreed engineering best practices.
- Contribute unit and integration tests to ensure functional correctness and regression safety.
- Support feature delivery by implementing Back End components from pre-defined designs and tickets.
- Participate in code reviews, addressing feedback and continuously improving code quality.
- Troubleshoot Back End issues using logs and diagnostics, escalating complex design concerns to onshore leads.
- Work within an Agile/Scrum team, contributing to sprint delivery and estimations for assigned work.
- Follow established security, performance, and reliability guidelines when implementing Back End changes.
Key Skills:
- 3-6+ years of Back End development experience.
- Strong experience with Python or equivalent Back End frameworks.
- Solid understanding of REST API development, request/response models, and error handling.
- Experience working in microservices-based architectures.
- Hands-on experience deploying or running services on GCP or another hyperscaler.
- Familiarity with managed databases (eg Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of containerised workloads (Docker) and serverless/container platforms (eg Cloud Run or Kubernetes).
- Strong SQL skills, including schema usage, query optimisation, and data consistency.
- Experience integrating with external systems via APIs or messaging.
- Awareness of data validation, idempotency, and failure handling patterns.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests for Back End services.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git-based workflows).
- Able to communicate progress, blockers, and risks clearly to onshore counterparts.
- Willingness to follow established standards rather than redefine architecture.
Salary (Rate): £450 Daily
City: Leeds
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Senior Backend Python Developer
6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £450 per day
Leeds based - hybrid working - 3 days onsite
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Back End services and APIs in line with existing architectural patterns and standards.
- Implement business logic, data access layers, and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Develop and enhance RESTful APIs, following defined contracts and API standards.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, adhering to agreed engineering best practices.
- Contribute unit and integration tests to ensure functional correctness and regression safety.
- Support feature delivery by implementing Back End components from pre-defined designs and tickets.
- Participate in code reviews, addressing feedback and continuously improving code quality.
- Troubleshoot Back End issues using logs and diagnostics, escalating complex design concerns to onshore leads.
- Work within an Agile/Scrum team, contributing to sprint delivery and estimations for assigned work.
- Follow established security, performance, and reliability guidelines when implementing Back End changes.
Skills & Experience
Core Back End engineering
- 3-6+ years of Back End development experience.
- Strong experience with Python or equivalent Back End frameworks.
- Solid understanding of REST API development, request/response models, and error handling.
- Experience working in microservices-based architectures.
Cloud & infrastructure awareness
- Hands-on experience deploying or running services on GCP or another hyperscaler.
- Familiarity with managed databases (eg Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of containerised workloads (Docker) and serverless/container platforms (eg Cloud Run or Kubernetes).
Data & integration
- Strong SQL skills, including schema usage, query optimisation, and data consistency.
- Experience integrating with external systems via APIs or messaging.
- Awareness of data validation, idempotency, and failure handling patterns.Quality & delivery
- Experience writing unit and integration tests for Back End services.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git-based workflows).
- Comfortable working from clear requirements, tickets, and technical guidance provided by onshore leads.Ways of working Experience working as part of a distributed or offshore delivery team.
- Able to communicate progress, blockers, and risks clearly to onshore counterparts.
- Willingness to follow established standards rather than redefine architecture.
Disclaimer:
This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.