London: Python API Engineer for Scalable Systems

Advantage Resourcing UK Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Advantage Resourcing UK Ltd. is seeking a Software Engineer to develop an entry portal and APIs using Python, working with distributed systems and modern containerized infrastructure. You will collaborate with stakeholders to design, develop, test and release features and mentor junior engineers.

The role emphasizes independent work within defined streams, solving technical problems, and supporting production systems with automation and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale API services.
• Knowledge of distributed asynchronous systems and immutability across multi-machine environments.
• Proficiency with SQL DB and Oracle databases.
• Experience with container orchestration and cloud platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Azure/AWS).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain Python-based APIs and services.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to define, test and release features.
• Provide fixes for production issues and contribute to automation and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Python API development

Distributed systems design

SQL/Oracle databases

Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Azure

Messaging brokers

DevOps / CI/CD

Mentoring junior staff

Tools

Docker

Kafka

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GitHub

RabbitMQ

SQS

Job description

Advantage Resourcing UK Ltd. is seeking a Software Engineer to develop an entry portal and APIs using Python, working with distributed systems and modern containerized infrastructure. You will collaborate with stakeholders to design, develop, test and release features and mentor junior engineers.

The role emphasizes independent work within defined streams, solving technical problems, and supporting production systems with automation and CI/CD practices.