Senior Python Backend Engineer — Hybrid, Equity

WeDoTech; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid role in London

Job summary

WeDoTech is hiring for a senior backend role in London. You will design and build high performance Python services, create scalable distributed systems and APIs, and develop data pipelines for large enterprise datasets.

You will own architecture through production, work with founders and customers, and contribute to AI/LLM infrastructure. Hybrid work with strong ownership and rigorous performance focus.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong commercial Python experience.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems.
• Experience with high throughput or data intensive applications.
• Strong understanding of performance engineering and scalability.
• Experience identifying and resolving real production bottlenecks.
• Strong API and systems integration experience.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience within cloud environments.
• Understanding of asynchronous processing and messaging architectures.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring and SLOs.
• Experience owning systems from initial architecture through to production.
• Strong communication skills and confidence making and defending architectural decisions.
• Experience building backend or platform infrastructure around AI, LLMs, Generative AI or agentic applications would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high performance backend services primarily in Python.
• Build scalable distributed systems and APIs.
• Develop pipelines capable of processing large volumes of complex enterprise data.
• Integrate with external APIs and legacy enterprise systems.
• Design asynchronous and event driven architectures.
• Identify and solve performance bottlenecks across production systems.
• Think critically about throughput, latency, computational cost and scalability.
• Build resilient systems capable of handling failures and unreliable dependencies.
• Define and monitor SLOs around performance, reliability and availability.
• Work closely with engineers, founders and customers to turn complex problems into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Own what you build from architecture through to deployment and production.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

APIs & integration

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud environments

Observability & SLOs

System architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

WeDoTech is hiring for a senior backend role in London. You will design and build high performance Python services, create scalable distributed systems and APIs, and develop data pipelines for large enterprise datasets.

You will own architecture through production, work with founders and customers, and contribute to AI/LLM infrastructure. Hybrid work with strong ownership and rigorous performance focus.