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Contract Senior Python Engineer
Up to £700 per day (Outside IR35)
6 month contract with scope for extension
Hybrid, Surrey (3 days a week onsite)
We're working with an award-winning, growing business who are looking for a contract Senior Python Engineer to join a small, highly technical team on an initial 6 month contract. You'll take end-to-end ownership of the backend and the AWS environment behind it.
What we expect from the Senior Python Engineer:
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- Proven experience across backend engineering utilising Python and Django
- Hands-on AWS ownership and infrastructure as code, comfortable being responsible for production rather than just deploying to it
- Experience running asynchronous, long-running workloads in production, covering concurrency, retries and idempotency
- Degree educated, ideally to Master's level in an engineering or mathematics discipline
Tech stack for a Senior Python Engineer:
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- Python / Django / Django REST Framework
- AWS (ECS, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, S3/CloudFront) / Terraform
- Celery / Redis / Docker / GitLab CI/CD
- PostgreSQL
Benefits:
- Up to £700 per day, Outside IR35
- 3 days onsite, 2 from home
- End-to-end ownership
- Considerably great scope for extension post 6-month initial
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