Software Engineer (Contract) – Python / FastAPI
6 Month Contract - Fully Remote Daily Rate: £500 Outside IR35
Contact: Matthew.Makranczy@forsythbarnes.com
We’re looking for experienced AWS Software Engineer (contractors) to join an established platform engineering team and help take a proof-of-concept Identity & Access Management (IAM) system into production.
This is a hands-on engineering role suited to senior Python developers who enjoy building production systems from the ground up and working independently on application development, while collaborating closely with a wider AWS platform team.
What you’ll be working on
* Building a FastAPI-based headless service to manage REST APIs for user and group IAM relationships in AWS
* Designing and delivering a technical audit service for the IAM system
* Supporting the IAM syncing solution to meet production standards
* Implementing robust QA and testing strategies
* Ensuring non-functional requirements are met (scalability, performance, reliability)
* Contributing strong software engineering skills to complement the existing platform team
Core requirements
* 5+ years of hands-on Python development
* Production experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask (FastAPI preferred)
* Strong experience building RESTful APIs
* Experience with relational and non-relational databases
* Proven experience building applications from scratch and taking them to production
* Experience supporting production systems handling high traffic
AWS & cloud experience
* 5+ years of AWS (or equivalent cloud) experience
* Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture
* Experience with serverless technologies
* Solid knowledge of asynchronous programming models
* Familiarity with Terraform concepts (writing not required)
DevOps & delivery
* Experience deploying applications via CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab)
* Comfortable taking systems live and maintaining production services