Python Backend Developer at Euro Staffs

Euro Staffs; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Yippie AI is seeking an experienced Python Backend Developer to join our team in a hybrid role based in Dublin. You will work on production systems for a financial-services client, maintaining and expanding APIs and microservices while collaborating with client engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years of Python development experience, with strong API and backend system skills, and the ability to own features from design through deployment in an enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Python development experience.
• Production REST APIs, preferably FastAPI.
• Experience with microservices and distributed backend systems.
• AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway and/or ECS).
• Understanding of API security, authentication and authorization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production Python APIs and microservices.
• Own changes from requirements to deployment.
• Collaborate with client engineering and business teams to align technical approaches.
• Maintain, monitor and improve existing backend services.
• Build integrations between source systems and downstream services.
• Review services to improve reliability, maintainability and performance.
• Apply security best practices, including secrets management.
• Write automated tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide production support.
• Contribute to engineering standards and documentation.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

Git

CI/CD

API security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Python Backend Developer | Yippie AI | €60,000-€70,000/year

Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

The Role We're looking for an experienced Python Backend Developer to join our team, working on a production environment for one of our financial-services clients. You'll work primarily across an existing Python API and microservices layer, maintaining and improving production services as well as designing and delivering new APIs and integrations. You'll work closely with the Technical Lead and directly with client engineering teams. You'll be expected to take ownership of your work from understanding requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment and production support. This is a hands-on engineering role with significant client exposure and the opportunity to take increasing technical ownership as the team grows.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, developing and maintaining production Python APIs and microservices
• Taking ownership of changes from requirements and technical design through to deployment
• Working directly with client engineering and business teams to understand requirements and agree technical approaches
• Maintaining, monitoring and improving existing backend services
• Building integrations between source systems and downstream services
• Reviewing existing services and identifying opportunities to improve reliability, maintainability and performance
• Applying security best practices including authentication, authorisation, secrets management and secure handling of client data
• Writing automated tests and contributing to CI/CD and deployment processes
• Troubleshooting production issues and supporting services after deployment
• Contributing to engineering standards, documentation and technical decision-making

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone with strong professional Python experience who is comfortable working with production backend systems and can take ownership of delivering changes in an enterprise environment. You'll ideally have 4+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience developing APIs or backend services in Python.

Required

• Strong commercial Python development experience
• Production experience building and maintaining REST APIs, ideally using FastAPI
• Experience working with microservices or distributed backend systems
• Experience with AWS, ideally including Lambda, API Gateway and/or ECS
• Strong understanding of Git, automated testing and modern software development practices
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems
• Good understanding of API security, authentication and authorisation
• Ability to work directly with client teams and communicate technical decisions clearly

Nice to Have

• Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar
• Asynchronous Python and API performance optimisation
• Terraform or CloudFormation
• Snowflake or other cloud data platforms
• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments
• Previous consultancy or client-facing engineering experience
• AWS, SnowPro or other relevant certifications

Pay: €60,000.00-€70,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dublin, County Dublin