Senior Python Engineer - Greenfield AWS Platform (Remote)

The Adecco Group; West of England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a senior Python engineer to join a major, multi-year programme. You will contribute to a greenfield CRM platform, shaping architecture and engineering standards while delivering production-grade Python services.

You’ll work across front-end and back-end teams in an Agile environment, mentoring others and driving best practices, with a remote/home-based setup and occasional travel to Bristol.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python engineering with strong AWS and data services knowledge.
• Experience designing scalable, production-grade Python applications.
• Ability to influence architecture and drive best practices across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade Python services and applications.
• Contribute to the architecture and technical foundations of the platform.
• Shape scope and roadmaps with Product Owners.
• Support discovery, technical design and delivery planning.
• Collaborate across multiple codebases and engineering teams.
• Share engineering best practices and establish standards.
• Mentor engineers and conduct code reviews.
• Develop scalable, resilient services in an AWS environment.
• Work with event-driven architecture and Kafka.
• Develop cloud-native solutions using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• Experience with DynamoDB/NoSQL; SQL relational databases desirable.

Skills

Python

AWS

Kafka

NoSQL DynamoDB

SQL databases

Agile

Mentoring

Testing

Tools

Lambda

API Gateway

Docker

CloudFormation

Job description

National Grid is seeking a senior Python engineer to join a major, multi-year programme. You will contribute to a greenfield CRM platform, shaping architecture and engineering standards while delivering production-grade Python services.

You’ll work across front-end and back-end teams in an Agile environment, mentoring others and driving best practices, with a remote/home-based setup and occasional travel to Bristol.