Python Developer

Python Developer / Data Engineer - Leeds, UK

Role: Python Developer/Data Engineer. Duration: 1 year (initial 6 months). Employment type: Inside IR35. Hybrid: 3 days to office every week.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based data and analytics solutions.
• Process and analyze time series and large datasets.
• Build clean, efficient, and testable code following software engineering best practices.
• Create interactive dashboards using Plotly Dash.
• Integrate with REST APIs and backend services.
• Work closely with data, product, and engineering teams.

Required Skills

• 9+ years of hands on experience in software engineering.
• Strong Python programming (functions, OOP, error handling, virtual environments).
• Data processing and analytics using Pandas and NumPy.
• Experience with data cleaning, transformations, joins, aggregations, and SQL.
• Git, unit testing (pytest), code documentation, linters, and formatters.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Plotly Dash (interactive dashboards, callbacks, layouts).
• Exposure to time series data and analytics.
• Familiarity with Polars.

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