Python Developer

Templeton & Partners - Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Templeton & Partners is seeking an experienced senior developer/architect in Greater London to lead design and development across large-scale applications. The role emphasizes independent work streams, architectural oversight, and strong collaboration with business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will design scalable systems, implement robust testing, and provide guidance on production issues while working within modern DevOps practices and cloud environments (Azure/AWS).

Qualifications

• Experience in designing large-scale application architecture and interfaces.
• Strong collaboration with external stakeholders and business teams.
• Design and development guidance for complex projects; testing expertise.

Responsibilities

• Work independently within defined projects/work streams and deliver results.
• Design, develop, and provide project guidance for applications and infrastructure.
• Advise on functional/technical problems and provide solutions.
• Collaborate with lead developer to define, develop, test, and release features; provide bug fixes for production issues.
• Familiar with DevOps and CI/CD processes.

Skills

API development

Distributed systems

SQL/Oracle

Docker/Kubernetes

Azure/AWS

Message brokers

Automation

Typed language

CI/CD

Tools

GitHub

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ

Kafka

Job description

Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results.

Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design.

Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential.

Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support.

Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure.

Mandatory skills:

• API development using Python as OOP
• Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
• Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle
• Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill
• Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language
• Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features --Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues
• Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment