Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Anson McCade Pty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Private medical insurance

Learning and development opportunities

28 days' holiday plus bank holidays &

Birthday off

Job summary

Anson McCade Pty in London is seeking an experienced Python backend engineer for a hybrid, permanent role. You will design and build scalable Python services, shape architecture, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing features.

You will mentor teammates, influence technical direction and bring strong database/API knowledge to a growing automotive consumer platform.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python backend experience.
• Experience building and maintaining software products.
• A solid understanding of databases, APIs and distributed systems.
• Confidence contributing to technical design and supporting other developers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable Python services.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.
• Work closely with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing features.
• Mentor other engineers and introduce tools/approaches to improve how the team builds software.

Skills

Strong backend Python

Software product experience

Databases APIs distributed systems

Technical design & mentoring

Tools

Python

Django

FastAPI

AWS

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Kubernetes

Redis

Job description

London, Holborn | Hybrid | Permanent

Build the product. Shape the architecture. Have a say in what comes next.

Join an ambitious technology business building a consumer platform in the automotive market. With established industry backing and an evolving tech stack, this is an opportunity to take ownership of backend services and influence how the product develops.

You'll design and build scalable Python services, contribute to architectural decisions and work closely with Product and Design to deliver customer-facing features. You'll also mentor other engineers and have room to introduce tools and approaches that improve how the team builds software.

The stack:

Python, Django, FastAPI, AWS, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes and Redis.

We're keen to speak with engineers who bring:

• Strong commercial Python backend experience
• Experience building and maintaining software products
• A solid understanding of databases, APIs and distributed systems
• Confidence contributing to technical design and supporting other developers

Around six years or more of professional development experience would be ideal. You don't need experience with every tool in the stack.

The package:

£70-80k, performance bonus, private medical insurance, learning and development opportunities, and 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays and your birthday off.