Senior Software Engineer - Python/​Django Remote

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Python/Django Remote) to join our dynamic team. Our client has a powerful, data-driven, AI/ML platform that's transforming the way businesses connect with their customers and partners. Enjoying stellar growth, they’re now on track to double revenue in the next 12 months, making this a rare opportunity to join at such a critical inflection point.

What You'll Do

• Own the full stack of the application, stepping into any part of the system to understand and improve it, ensuring business continuity.
• Perform core engineering backend development in Python/Django, building and maintaining the API layer, business logic, and data models.
• Contribute to frontend development using Vue.js, focusing on customer quote journeys and internal tooling.
• Design and manage databases with PostgreSQL, ensuring schema evolution, query performance, and data integrity.
• Work with async processing, managing background operations such as risk checks and payment processing.
• Build and maintain integrations with partners, including risk data providers and payment processors.
• Design API endpoints for new partner onboarding and understand external APIs across quoting, credit/risk assessment, and fraud detection.
• Own the health and security of production systems, monitoring and troubleshooting to maintain uptime and security posture across Linux-based infrastructure.
• Manage and evolve AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, SES) and contribute to infrastructure-as-code migration using Pulumi.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and participate in system upgrades, including Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and OS-level modernization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python development using Django, comfortable navigating and extending a large Django codebase.
• Proficiency in PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Strong Linux/Unix skills, with the ability to debug production issues via SSH and manage processes.
• Experience with AWS, having deployed and managed production workloads.
• Familiarity with Docker as part of daily development and deployment workflow.
• A security-conscious mindset, understanding application security fundamentals and data protection principles.
• Experience in API design and integration, having built and consumed RESTful APIs.
• Competency in frontend technologies, particularly Vue.js or similar modern JS frameworks.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a regulated industry with data protection compliance (GDPR, DPIA).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience tackling technical debt and improving CI/CD in a production system.
• Configuration management experience using tools like SaltStack or Ansible.
• Mobile app experience.

What We Offer

• High impact role where your decisions will shape the future of the platform and potentially the industry.
• Rapid growth environment with exciting challenges in AI/ML and scalable architecture.
• Flexible remote working with only occasional meetups.
• Continuous learning opportunities to experiment with new technologies.