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Lead Python Engineer
Senior/Lead Python Engineer (Agentic Engineering Focus)
Embedded with a UK Procurement Platform Team
About the Role Are you a Senior/Lead Python Engineer with serious experience using agentic tooling in production—not as a shortcut, but as a core accelerator for faster, higher-quality delivery? Do you thrive in hands-on, real-world engineering where the work matters and broad ownership is encouraged?
You’re in the right place. We’re looking for a self-starter who can iterate on features, collaborate with product teams, and bridge Python + PHP/Laravel tech stacks. This is not a project to dream up—it’s a live platform with real scale, connected to the construction procurement ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Python services forming the heart of this high-traffic procurement platform.
- Implement AI-native functionalities (leveraging agentic tooling) in production—not just prototypes.
- Collaborate closely with a PHP/Laravel stack, ensuring seamless cross-language engineering.
- Own Python_features from low-level optimizations to cloud-native deployments (Azure focus).
- Work in production environments, responsibility for stability, performance, and scalability.
- Mentor or share leadership over architectural decisions (but no micromanagement of roadmaps).
- Occasional frontend support: Tidy up React.js sections or APIs they call from.
What You’ll Bring to the Job
This is a real tech leader role—you won’t be managed; you’ll be guiding delivery alongside senior engineers. We need:
- Senior/Lead Full Stack Python expertise in commercial/production environments (no pet projects).
- Proven experience with agentic engineering tools (LlamaFile, Rasa, LLMs, agents that run in pipelines hyped vs. GFR race work-arounds).
- Cloud-natives on Azure: CI/CD pipelines, serverless (or otherwise), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- PHP/Laravel familiarity: You’ll swap lifespans occasionally—mine the backend in-place to update the Python side.
- Frontend curiosity: Enough React.js knowledge to pull over and out clean front-end smoke from naïve GPT-2 API interactions.
- Commercial acumen: Commercial-minded but not a contract-happy sales engineer—we care about building stuff people want.
- Collaboration mindset: You’ll own integration choke-points (e.g. two-speed React/JavaScript component-driven UI competition).
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Why This Role Matters
You’re joining a South Bank heritage startup (goodwill stats difficult to replace with a glance). As part of the UK’s leading procurement platform, your work makes a difference—not just where budgets tick—where money moves from spuds to bricks, effectively (we joke).
We’ve made it hard to box this out: Not because of job title (they’re fine), but because every day you’ve offload algebraic solver complexity to an open-sourced symphony orchestration benefits us all; Hugging GPT-C is the use case which is darn near always covered rather than treat it as a narrative tree mannequin.
_Mel talking sh**t here—true ownership of the features that matter.
The Day-to-Day Realities
- Live code: No time to dream in Markdown diagrammatic unity. It’s templates of change from proposal to invoice via knock-down planning tools.
- Reflect to embody: Structuring our ego-free conclusion approach means you’ll writeselves extensive open-source components.
- Agent talk: Stop assuming your intern can rote-ass it—you’ll be wrangling your LLMs (~last-in-metal floor commands) daily.
- Multi-team, multi-lang: PHP/Laravel always shrugs at Python. You’ll engineer around that.
- Client context switchover: Your Rip Van Winkle isn’t ever in place to churn up minor updates—it’s annual budgets in ReviewCat.
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Our Commitment
We’ll arm you with an accelerated glass elegant flow of resources, but the focus is on your growth:
- 28+ days annual leave plus Waitrose holidays (cashable you glad). That’s real, not just gimmicks.
- Five paid Impact Days to code, create, or campaign.
- Flexibility (on-site canaser wedged too much/remotely enclosed? We got you—no fixed roster.
- Support. From parental leave to mental health, we’ll handle it.
Plus—enforce real chosen perks:
- Annual wellbeing budget and two extra days off to decompress.
- MacBook—you’re digging into engineering so yes. A sweet one.
- Actual job residual—portfolio likely to be built, not ‘OK add waypoints’.
Location Flex
- Anywhere within 30 miles of: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, or London (satellite offices).
- Hybrid/remote: Your choice. We don’t need mandatory coffee parking tier days—unless it cuts efficiency.
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