Python Engineer - AI-Driven Energy Platform & Modelling

Whereby; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Modo Energy in London is hiring backend Python engineers to join one of our product teams: Terminal, Data, Ko, or Modelling. You’ll build production systems from day one, owning APIs, data pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and tooling.

You’ll work across the stack, shipping features, hardening pipelines, and improving observability, with autonomy and a bias for practical design. Experience with AI tools and LLM-powered applications is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional Python experience and end-to-end ownership.
• Hands-on AWS experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Proficiency in Django, FastAPI, or similar async Python framework.
• Experience building data pipelines and PostgreSQL-backed systems.
• Expert-level use of AI coding tools for productive coding.
• Fast learner with good judgement and willingness to tackle unfamiliar tools.
• Ability to work in a small, fast-moving team with autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (Django, FastAPI, or similar) powering a live product.
• Design and operate data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve data at scale.
• Own AWS infrastructure end-to-end from development to production using Terraform.
• Build monitoring, observability, and alerting to catch problems before customers.
• Balance shipping new features with maintaining platform health and performance.
• Design internal tools (CLIs, APIs, MCP servers) to improve team efficiency.
• Collaborate with domain experts to ensure accuracy and usefulness of what you build.
• Contribute to LLM-powered AI Analyst infrastructure (retrieval pipelines, tool-calling).
• Move across stack as needed, sometimes touching frontend or deeper infra.

Skills

Python

AWS

Terraform

Django

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

AI coding tools

System design

Autonomy in small team

Job description

Modo Energy in London is hiring backend Python engineers to join one of our product teams: Terminal, Data, Ko, or Modelling. You’ll build production systems from day one, owning APIs, data pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and tooling.

You’ll work across the stack, shipping features, hardening pipelines, and improving observability, with autonomy and a bias for practical design. Experience with AI tools and LLM-powered applications is a plus.