Remote Django Backend Engineer (Python) - API & Cloud

Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd is collaborating with a well‑established B2B software business to recruit a contract Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django). This hands‑on role focuses on designing and building APIs and backend workflows for the new client portal, with end‑to‑end ownership from refinement to production.

The role targets mid‑level to senior Python engineers who can contribute to security, performance, testing, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience building and supporting backend services in production.
• Strong Python skills and production Django experience, including the ORM, migrations, configuration and testing.
• A track record of designing maintainable REST APIs, with solid data modelling and relational database practice.
• Good knowledge of authentication, authorisation, single sign‑on patterns and secure API design.
• A testing mindset and experience working with CI/CD.
• Confidence diagnosing application, database and performance issues in live environments.
• An understanding of cloud‑hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally in AWS.
• Clear communication and the ability to explain technical trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining backend services and APIs using Python and Django
• Owning work end to end, from technical refinement through to deployment and monitoring
• Working closely with product, programme management, QA, platform engineering and other developers to shape practical solutions
• Making sound trade‑offs across security, performance, maintainability, cost and delivery
• Breaking complex work into clear increments and raising dependencies and risks early
• Writing clean, well‑tested, well‑documented code with good observability built in
• Taking part in code reviews and helping improve test automation, CI/CD and production reliability.

Skills

Python

Django

REST APIs

CI/CD

AWS

Data modelling

Code reviews

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Redis

Sentry

Job description

Bright Purple Resourcing Ltd is collaborating with a well‑established B2B software business to recruit a contract Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django). This hands‑on role focuses on designing and building APIs and backend workflows for the new client portal, with end‑to‑end ownership from refinement to production.

The role targets mid‑level to senior Python engineers who can contribute to security, performance, testing, and reliability.