Senior Python & AWS Engineer: Serverless Cloud Builder

E.ON Next Energy Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Generous pension

Life cover

Bonus opportunities

Hybrid & family-friendly policies

Job summary

E.ON Next is seeking an experienced Senior to Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in London. You will build scalable full-stack applications using Python and a serverless-first approach on AWS, shaping technical direction and mentoring peers.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Data, Front-end, Platform and Security teams in an agile environment, translating complex problems into clear solutions and driving engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Senior/Staff Engineer or Team Lead.
• Experience providing technical leadership within an engineering squad.
• Strong experience with Python or transferable engineering experience in Python.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud technologies and cloud-native design.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles and development practices such as TDD, automated testing, pair programming and code review.
• Excellent software design, problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience with Git.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Curiosity for technology and willingness to learn and try new approaches.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable full-stack applications using Python and AWS with a serverless-first approach.
• Plan, build, test and release new features and experiments for large-scale systems.
• Provide technical leadership within your squad and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

AWS

TDD

Automated testing

Code review

Git

Communication

Tools

AWS

Git

Job description

E.ON Next is seeking an experienced Senior to Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in London. You will build scalable full-stack applications using Python and a serverless-first approach on AWS, shaping technical direction and mentoring peers.

You’ll collaborate with Product, Data, Front-end, Platform and Security teams in an agile environment, translating complex problems into clear solutions and driving engineering excellence.