Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django) x4 | Contract | £450 to £475 per day Outside IR35 | Bath, Hybrid or Remote
Bright Purple is partnering with a well-established B2B software business to bring in a contract Backend Software Engineers. You will join the team redesigning their client portal.
This is a hands-on role for an experienced mid-level or senior Python engineer. You will design and build the APIs and backend workflows behind new portal features and own your work through to production. You will work in a collaborative product team that values good engineering, uses AI-assisted development well and wants contractors who will add to technical decisions.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing, building and maintaining backend services and APIs using Python and Django
- Owning work end to end, from technical refinement through to deployment and monitoring
- Working closely with product, programme management, QA, platform engineering and other developers to shape practical solutions
- Making sound trade-offs across security, performance, maintainability, cost and delivery
- Breaking complex work into clear increments and raising dependencies and risks early
- Writing clean, well-tested, well-documented code with good observability built in
- Taking part in code reviews and helping improve test automation, CI/CD and production reliability
What you’ll bring
- Commercial experience building and supporting backend services in production
- Strong Python skills and production Django experience, including the ORM, migrations, configuration and testing
- A track record of designing maintainable REST APIs, with solid data modelling and relational database practice
- Good knowledge of authentication, authorisation, single sign-on patterns and secure API design
- A testing mindset and experience working with CI/CD
- Confidence diagnosing application, database and performance issues in live environments
- An understanding of cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally in AWS
- Clear communication and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues
Nice to have
- FastAPI or another modern Python API framework
- PostgreSQL or MySQL, Docker, Celery, Redis and Sentry
- Asynchronous or event-driven processing
- AWS CDK, Terraform or similar
- Experience in agile, product-led or data-rich B2B environments
Interested please apply directly