Senior Python Backend Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems
£550/day Outside IR35
Watford / Hybrid (Initial onsite, then mainly remote)
4-month contract
Were working with a highly engineering-led technology business building large-scale real-time backend systems within a distributed Azure environment.
This is not a role for architects, managers, or high-level solution designers.
We are specifically looking for deeply hands-on Python backend engineers who are comfortable operating at implementation level within complex distributed systems.
The environment is heavily focused on:
* Real-time event-driven processing
* High-throughput backend services
* Distributed microservice architectures
* Low-latency data ingestion pipelines
* Operational resilience and observability
* Production-scale concurrency and asynchronous processing
Youll be joining a team working on systems that continuously ingest and process large volumes of operational and telemetry-style data from connected platforms and devices.
Tech environment:
1. Python
2. FastAPI
3. Azure Functions
4. Azure Service Bus / Event Hub
5. Kubernetes / AKS
6. Docker
7. Cosmos DB
8. Distributed messaging systems
9. Event-driven microservices
10. Real-time proc...