Python API Developer - Contract - London - Outside IR35

Robson Bale Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm is seeking a Python API Developer for an initial 3-month contract in London. The role requires expertise in AWS, CI/CD, and Python for integration services and automation. Responsibilities include developing APIs, managing event pipelines, and ensuring security compliance. The candidate should be skilled in Terraform and observability tools. This position necessitates some onsite work in Central London and offers market rate compensation.

Qualifications

• Expertise in CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strong experience with AWS and Python programming.
• Understanding of security protocols and API design.

Responsibilities

• Implement Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for multi-region support.
• Develop event-based content ingestion services.
• Enhance API security and observability metrics.

Skills

CI/CD & IaC: Terraform, GoCD or similar (Jenkins/GitHub/GitLab)

AWS Expertise: EKS, API Gateway, EventBridge, IAM

Python: Strong coding for integration services and automation

Security: JWT, TLS, PII processing

API Implementation: REST, OpenAPI specs

Job description

Python API Developer - Contract - London - Outside IR35

Robson Bale are currently recruiting for a Python API Developer to come on board for an initial 3 month contract.

The role will require some time on site in Central London

3 months initially

Market rate

Skills

• CI/CD & IaC: Terraform, GoCD or similar (Jenkins/GitHub/GitLab)
• AWS Expertise: EKS, API Gateway, EventBridge, IAM.
• Python: Strong coding for integration services and automation.
• Security: JWT, TLS, PII processing.
• API Implementation: REST, OpenAPI specs.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with OpenSearch (hybrid search, FGAC).
• Understanding of GenAI (RAG, embeddings, LLMs, AI Safety, Evaluation).
• Security: ABAC, multi-tenant isolation

Responsibilities

• Terraform, CI/CD, DevOps: env pipelines, multi region support for OpenSearch, tagging, feature flags.
• Content ingestion services (event based).
• API Gateway + JWT validation/hardening downstream.
• Observability package: Datadog, DD, KPIs, metrics.
• Security/Privacy: Support any outstanding for DPO approval and threat model;
• Support e2e integration
• Support Launch readiness