Senior Python Engineer - End-to-End Backend for Smart Energy

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Live platform ownership

Engineering-focused role

Job summary

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a Python Software Engineer to build robust Python services powering a live energy platform. You’ll own the ingestion pipeline, APIs, and internal services, deploying and monitoring in production with high autonomy.

You’ll work on problems spanning device, broker, network and code boundaries, with emphasis on reliability and real-time observability in a hybrid UK environment.

Qualifications

• Solid production Python experience with ownership of services
• Backend design skills: APIs, async, data modeling and testing
• Experience with failure handling in message-driven systems
• Experience with embedded software and related tech (C/C++, RTOS)
• Ownership of services in production: deploy, monitor, diagnose
• Able to debug across device, broker, network and code boundaries
• Strong Linux and Docker skills; deploy and troubleshoot on Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of AWS services (EC2, DynamoDB, IoT Core)
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of end-to-end services
• Experience with MQTT or other brokers and time-series data

Responsibilities

• Own ingestion pipeline handling MQTT traffic from meters
• Develop APIs exposing data and internal services for consistency
• Deploy and monitor services in production; ensure reliability
• Make technical decisions with autonomy and real impact in energy sector

Skills

Python (production)

API design

Async programming

Data modeling

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

MQTT / message brokers

Telemetry / energy sector

C/C++ exposure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

AWS

FastAPI/Flask

Job description

KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a Python Software Engineer to build robust Python services powering a live energy platform. You’ll own the ingestion pipeline, APIs, and internal services, deploying and monitoring in production with high autonomy.

You’ll work on problems spanning device, broker, network and code boundaries, with emphasis on reliability and real-time observability in a hybrid UK environment.