Senior Python Backend Developer

• Senior Python Backend Developer
• Kings Cross, London- Onsite 2/3 days a week
• 6 month contract
• Inside of IR25
• £750 - £800 per day

My client is seeking a highly skilled software engineer to join its AI/ML team, contributing to the development of cutting-edge applications that accelerate drug discovery and enable personalised therapies. The ideal candidate will have strong Python backend development experience, preferably with FastAPI, and be proficient in cloud-native infrastructure (Google Cloud preferred), DevOps practices, and automated testing. While a background in life sciences is a plus, a passion for improving healthcare through technology is essential. The role involves integrating AI/ML components into scalable web applications, collaborating across technical teams, and continuously improving software quality and performance.

Key responsibilities

• Back end development for a Python web application
• Integration of AI/ML components with frontend, backend, data and compute infrastructure
• Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
• Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
• Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
• Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products

Basic qualifications:

• Extensive experience conducting Bankend Development using Python.
• Concurrency and Asyn exp
• Demonstrated experience using FastAPI
• Cloud Experience - GCP Essential
• SQL
• Docker
• Containerization
• Unit testing experience - TDD or Test Suit
• ML or AI experience would be desriable.
• Experience within Life Sceiences or Pharma Sector

If you are available and interested, please apply today!

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.