Senior Python Developer — Cloud, AI & Data

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension package with up to 9% employer

Private healthcare with mental health

Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products

Sharesave and Tech schemes

VIP rewards and experiences

Job summary

Sky in London is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Network Software & Data Science team. You will design, build, and evolve software platforms, services, and data products enabling analytics, automation, forecasting, and AI-driven decision making across networks.

The role blends software engineering with cloud infrastructure and data science, requiring collaboration with engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing software using Python.
• Experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Understanding of testing, design patterns, maintainability, and code quality.
• Experience deploying to cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Designing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions, Concourse, Jenkins.
• Git-based development workflows and data engineering fundamentals.
• Knowledge of agile, cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software platforms, APIs, and analytical apps.
• Build cloud-native services for analytics, optimisation, forecasting, and AI workloads.
• Collaborate with data scientists and network experts to translate requirements into software.
• Develop backend services and APIs using Python and modern frameworks.
• Containerise applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Create reusable platform components to boost productivity and efficiency.
• Contribute to data product workflows including ingestion, transformation, deployment, and visualization.
• Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and performance; support observability and incident resolution.
• Participate in design reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior developers and foster a strong engineering culture.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git workflows

Agile teams

Problem solving

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Django

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

GitHub Actions

Concourse

Jenkins

BigQuery

Pandas

Apache Spark

Job description

Sky in London is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Network Software & Data Science team. You will design, build, and evolve software platforms, services, and data products enabling analytics, automation, forecasting, and AI-driven decision making across networks.

The role blends software engineering with cloud infrastructure and data science, requiring collaboration with engineers, data scientists, and product stakeholders.