Python Developer
Remote
ShortList Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a AI Developer to join a market-leading tech firm on a remote-first basis.
An established tech-led business is expanding its production-scale AI voice assistant platform and is looking for an experienced Python Developer to help enhance and grow the system. You’ll work across real-time voice processing, agent logic and integrations that power thousands of interactions daily.
Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain core components of a large-scale Python-based AI agent platform
* Work on voice processing, agent orchestration, task scheduling and API integrations
* Improve performance, reliability and scalability across the system
* Contribute to AI/LLM-driven feature development
* Follow secure development and data governance best practices
Essential Skills:
* Experience with telephony or voice/SMS APIs
* Experience with speech-to-text / text-to-speech SDKs
* Strong experience with Python, including asyncio and concurrency
* Experience with Docker, containerised applications and MongoDB
* Knowledge of REST API development and integrating external services
* Experience with pytest, Git and modern engineering practices
* Practical experience with LLM prompt design and optimisation
* Strong understanding of security principles and safe data handling
Desirable Skills:
* Exposure to commercial LLM platforms or inference engines
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and CI/CD pipelines
* Familiarity with observability tools used in AI/LLM environments
* Experience with task schedulers, cron jobs or webhook-based workflows
* Optional frontend experience (e.g. Vue, Streamlit)
The Python Developer role is remote-first, with ad hoc visits to the Chester-based office. The role is paying circa £70,000 with some flex for the right individual with Voice experience.
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