Senior Python Developer

About The Role

Our client is recruiting a Senior Python Developer to join their team. Senior Python Developers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support, and maintain user-centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

Our client’s Senior Python Developers are experts in their field. You will act as a senior consultant providing technical expertise in software engineering practices both internally and to clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships, and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

Please note, we are looking for candidates who are seeking growth at this level (senior). Therefore, the advertised salary band is at the lower end of the full banding for this level of position, allowing for progression in the role.

Your role in a nutshell:

• Act as a technical SME within the squad to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design, and deliver solutions to client problems
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines, resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
• Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions, and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear, concise manner
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
• Be involved in the recruitment of other engineers and support other consultants in their professional development
• Promote our client’s engineering capability externally (for example, through writing blogs, workshops, seminars, or conferences)

About the Candidate:

• Expert experience with Python
• Excellent experience with Python tools and technologies such as Django, Flask, and FastAPI
• Excellent experience with AWS Serverless
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical and non-technical terms depending on the audience
• Experience across the full development lifecycle delivering user-centred digital solutions
• Full stack development experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript libraries and frameworks is preferable – Node, React, Angular
• Containerisation experience – Docker, Kubernetes, or similar
• Experience in microservices design and architecture
• Experience with RESTful API services
• Working within agile methods and using techniques such as Scrum, Kanban, and TDD
• Skilled in designing and building native and web applications across a variety of scales and platform environments
• Infrastructure as Code – CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM, or similar
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps, and Atlassian
• Previous experience working on GOV/NHS projects would be highly desirable

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (our client 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options including: private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, additional holidays (up to 2 extra days), wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Our Client

Our client is dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. They understand that having a diverse team unlocks capacity for innovation, creativity, and problem-solving. By building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds, they create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

They actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent people, and people with disabilities. They are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects their workplace culture. Their organisation is a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer, and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Our client continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations, and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout their practices.

About Our Client

Our client designs with empathy and builds for impact. They combine data-informed evidence, human-centred design, and software engineering. They are a digital services partner genuinely invested in helping clients thrive as modern organisations. Their delivery methodology is agile from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve outcomes.

They believe technology should serve humanity, not the other way around, and take a human-centred approach to everything they do. Their solutions are informed by how users behave in the real world. Their combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

Our Client Locations

Our client is headquartered in Leeds and has offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Bristol. While they are on the lookout for top talent nationwide, candidates need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of the offices, which will be their contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, candidates may be required to work on-site at an office or at a client location for some days per week and must be open/flexible to travel. A generous relocation support package of up to £8k is available to assist with a smooth move.