Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (MongoDB / Django) 6-Month Contract Outside IR35 Fully Remote

About the Role

Aimtech Recruitment are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in MongoDB to help solve complex integration challenges between Django and MongoEngine within a live production environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role, suited to someone who can move beyond theory designing, implementing, and optimising real-world solutions that enhance the performance, scalability, and maintainability of our data layer.

Youll join a collaborative engineering team and act as a subject-matter expert in MongoDB usage, schema design, and data interaction patterns within Django applications.

What Youll Do

• Design and implement solutions that improve how Django and MongoDB interoperate.
• Review and refactor existing data models, ensuring performance and scalability.
• Work closely with backend teams to guide best practices around schema design, indexing, and query optimisation.
• Educate and mentor engineers on effective MongoDB usage patterns and integration strategies.
• Help evolve internal tooling, libraries, and data access layers to streamline development.

What Were Looking For

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with a strong focus on backend systems and database design.
• Advanced MongoDB knowledge schema design, aggregation pipelines, performance tuning, replication, and indexing strategies.
• Strong experience with Django and MongoEngine , including hands-on integration work.
• Ability to architect, build, and deliver solutions not just advise or design theoretically.
• Solid Python experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in remote teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with system architecture, microservices, or scaling data-driven applications.
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP.
• Previous work in mentoring or technical leadership roles.

Aimtech Recruitment is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.