Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer £55,000 - £65,000 Cambridge Python Django/Flask/FastAPI GCP/AWS/Azure
Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid/remote-first)
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000
FTC: Fixed-term contract (18 months)

Tech Stack

• Essential:
  • Backend: Python (Flask/FastAPI/Django)
  • Cloud Systems: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Bonus:
  • Frontend: React/TypeScript

About the Role

Are you an experienced Software Engineer with refined technical skills across API development and DevOps practices, looking for a new role in a forward-thinking, collaborative team?

We are working with an organisation well known for fostering creativity, collaboration, and making a positive impact. This organisation are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to play a key part in their ongoing technical success and reputation.

Responsibilities

• Help lead the rebuild of a high-volume platform.
• Work as part of a small, tight-knit engineering squad embedded within a wider, collaborative tech function.
• Partner directly with non-technical stakeholders to understand challenges, design user-focused solutions, and bring new ideas to life.
• Build, test, and deploy containerised web applications using modern frameworks and cloud platforms, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies, code reviews, and shared documentation, championing best practices in continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code.

Requirements for Success

• Building end-to-end web platforms using Python (Django), developing RESTful APIs
• Collaborating within an agile, cross-disciplinary team to tackle technical and commercial challenges.
• Containerising applications with Docker for consistent development and release.
• Launching and managing applications within cloud-hosted infrastructure.
• Embedding testing into everyday development, with a focus on writing the right tests at the right layers.

In addition to their technical expertise, the ideal candidate possesses a growth mindset and a deep commitment to continuous improvement. They are adept at creating scalable, efficient solutions using technologies such as Python and modern web frameworks in a containerised environment. With a keen eye for detail, they are driven by a desire to make a positive impact with a user-focused approach to development.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Remote first/hybrid
• Competitive holiday & pensions
• Private healthcare
• And more!

Interested and ready to take your Development career to the next level? Get in touch at or drop me a call for a confidential chat at .