Senior Backend Engineer, Python & AWS Data Pipelines

Bighand; England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday (exc. bank holidays)

Wellbeing benefits including private医療

Wellbeing programs & webinars

Private online therapy

Volunteer days and study leave

Pension scheme and life assurance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Remote work options

Job summary

BigHand, a leader in software for legal professionals, is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to own the data engineering and infrastructure behind our Agentic AI systems. You will lead Python-based data pipelines on AWS, collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers, and mentor a mid-level backend engineer.

You will help shape architecture as the product scales, contribute to technical discussions, and deliver robust backend features with modern lifecycle practices.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python experience is required.
• Solid experience with AWS services and infrastructure.
• Strong SQL knowledge and database experience.
• Data engineering experience building data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Python data pipelines, backend services and AWS infrastructure behind our Agentic AI products.
• Build powerful integrations between Ayora's platform and BigHand's wider product suite to expose our Agentic AI systems to more data and help improve the agentic harness.
• Mentor, support and potentially line manage a mid-level backend engineer, helping them progress to senior.
• Contribute to technical discussion and help shape requirements rather than simply consuming them.
• Develop well-constructed solutions using the best tools available, avoiding fragile shortcuts taken for short-term speed.
• Apply modern software development lifecycle practices, including agentic development, code review, testing and continuous delivery

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

AWS

Architectural thinking

Communication

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

Go

TypeScript

React

Job description

BigHand, a leader in software for legal professionals, is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to own the data engineering and infrastructure behind our Agentic AI systems. You will lead Python-based data pipelines on AWS, collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers, and mentor a mid-level backend engineer.

You will help shape architecture as the product scales, contribute to technical discussions, and deliver robust backend features with modern lifecycle practices.