15th July 2026
Python Software Engineer
Engineering
West Midlands - Herefordshire
£70,000 - £75,000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Python Software Engineer
Watford, Hertfordshire (Hybrid)
£70,000 – £75,000 per annum + Excellent benefits
On behalf of an industry Leading organisation, I am seeking a Python Software Engineer with strong production experience building high-throughput, message-driven platforms. This role suits someone comfortable working on real-world, always-on systems where reliability, performance, and clear engineering judgement matter as much as clean code.
The business is pleased to offer this role on a hybrid basis with 2-3 days in office; therefore, you must be within easy reach of their Watford-based offices.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers.
- Provide technical guidance, insight, and mentorship to other engineers.
- Participate in peer reviews and offer constructive feedback.
- Support product stakeholders in shaping the roadmap.
- Contribute to best practices and engineering standards across the wider engineering organization.
- Participate in modern software development practices including pairing, code reviews, documentation reviews, testing, and continuous delivery.
- Translate requirements into implementable technical specifications and tasks.
- Maintain accurate and reliable technical documentation.
- Provide regular updates on progress, timelines, risks, and dependencies.
- Lead troubleshooting and incident resolution, including occasional out-of-hours support.
- Ensure unit tests are implemented and fit for purpose.
- Research and evaluate new technologies that could benefit the organisation.
- Design and develop high-quality Python software that meets complex business needs.
- Ensure code, documentation, and testing align with engineering standards.
- Deliver solutions that meet acceptance criteria, performance expectations, and operational reliability.
- Integrate products with monitoring and support tooling.
Experience/Skills required:
- Experienced Python Engineer who can make sound trade-offs, design for scale, and contribute to complex systems without over-engineering.
- Strong engineering judgement and real-world delivery experience.
- Senior-level experience designing and building production Back End services in Python (3.10+).
- Strong background in high-throughput, message-based or event-driven systems.
- Proven experience building API-first services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Python Back End development, primarily using FastAPI and modern API patterns.
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, schema validation, and OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Experience working with messaging and eventing platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, MQTT, or similar.
- Cloud-native development experience is essential (ideally on Azure).
- Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Exposure to building and supporting shared or internal libraries used across multiple services.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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