Areti Group | B Corp™
Senior Python Developer
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🚀 Senior Python Developer – Full-Stack | Public Sector | Up to £470/day (Inside IR35)
We're hiring a Senior Python Developer to join a major UK public sector programme, contributing to the design and development of full-stack applications and RESTful APIs.
📍 Location: Leeds, Sheffield or London (travel required once a month max)
💰 Rate: Up to £470/day, Inside IR35
🔒 Clearance: Active SC clearance required, or strong confidence of obtaining it
⚠️ Essential: Prior experience working within UK Government or wider public sector is required
What we're looking for:
- ✅ Strong Python development experience (mid or senior level — seniors should show more depth plus leadership/mentoring experience)
- ✅ Experience developing front-end applications (Thymeleaf and GOV.UK Design System experience desirable)
- ✅ Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, including API versioning (OpenAPI/Swagger desirable)
- ✅ Experience with relational databases and SQL (Oracle experience desirable)
- ✅ Experience writing unit and integration tests, with mocking frameworks
- ✅ Experience writing automated UI regression tests
- ✅ Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Helm charts)
- ✅ Experience working with AWS and Kubernetes
- ✅ Experience implementing observability, monitoring and structured logging (e.g. OpenSearch, Prometheus)
- ✅ Strong grasp of software design principles and patterns for maintainable, scalable applications
- ✅ Previous UK Government or public sector experience essential
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