Hybrid Backend Python Engineer — Microservices & GCP

ARM; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A specialized talent acquisition consultancy is seeking a Senior Backend Python Developer for a 6-month contract in Leeds. The role offers £450-£480 per day and involves building and maintaining backend services, developing RESTful APIs, and participating in Agile/Scrum teams. Ideal candidates should possess 3-6+ years of backend development experience with strong skills in Python and REST API development. Hybrid working model with three days onsite is required.

Qualifications

• 3-6+ years of backend development experience.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services.
• Comfortable working from clear requirements and technical guidance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Implement business logic and data access layers.
• Develop and enhance RESTful APIs.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and improve code quality.
• Support feature delivery by implementing backend components.

Skills

Core backend engineering

Python or equivalent backend frameworks

REST API development

Microservices-based architectures

GCP or another hyperscaler

Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL skills

CI/CD pipelines

Git-based workflows

Job description

A specialized talent acquisition consultancy is seeking a Senior Backend Python Developer for a 6-month contract in Leeds. The role offers £450-£480 per day and involves building and maintaining backend services, developing RESTful APIs, and participating in Agile/Scrum teams. Ideal candidates should possess 3-6+ years of backend development experience with strong skills in Python and REST API development. Hybrid working model with three days onsite is required.