Python Developer

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Python Developer to join the team in London. The role involves building and maintaining AI-driven applications in healthcare. The successful candidate will have strong experience in Python, Elasticsearch, and SQL. Offering a competitive salary and the opportunity for early equity, this position promises high ownership and a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity options

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• 1+ year engineering with strong Python in production.
• Hands on Elasticsearch experience required.
• Solid SQL knowledge plus practical experience with MongoDB.
• Experience with CI and CD, and version control best practices.
• Comfortable with cloud platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Build Python services and APIs that ship to production.
• Operate and tune Elasticsearch for relevance and indexing.
• Design schemas and pipelines across Postgres and MongoDB.
• Run CI and CD, improve build times, and handle deployments.
• Collaborate with data and ML teams to productionise models.
• Instrument for observability and manage incidents end to end.

Skills

Strong Python in production

Elasticsearch experience

Solid SQL

Practical MongoDB

CI and CD experience

Version control best practice

Comfortable with Azure or Google Cloud

Product mindset

Clear communication

UK work rights

Job description

Python Developer | AI x Healthcare Data

£65k to £90k base + ~1% equity + benefits

Hybrid in London. At least 3 days on site

The mission

Build an AI indexed knowledge graph of doctors and a search layer that helps teams plan go to market with data, not guesswork. Own backend services that power search, data flows, and product features.

What you will do

• Build Python services and APIs that ship to production
• Operate and tune Elasticsearch for relevance, indexing, and pagination
• Design schemas and pipelines across Postgres and MongoDB
• Run CI and CD, improve build times, handle deployments and rollbacks
• Collaborate with data and ML to productionise models
• Instrument for observability and own incidents end to end

What you will bring

• 1+ year engineering with strong Python in production
• Hands on Elasticsearch experience
• Solid SQL plus practical MongoDB
• CI and CD experience, version control best practice
• Comfortable with Azure or Google Cloud
• Product mindset, clear communication, UK work rights, 3 days on site

Why this is worth your time

• High ownership on core systems with visible user impact
• Early equity with room to grow
• Fast cycles, pragmatic engineering, zero theatrics
• Senior peers and in person collaboration

The process

Screening chat, technical screen, on site super day covering coding, system design, and execution. References, then offer. Adjustments available.

Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustment