Django / Python Full-Stack Software Developer

WATER DIRECT: Django / Python Full-Stack Software Developer

UK Based – Full Time Permanent

Water Direct is the UK’s leading provider of alternative water supplies, delivering emergency and planned services to water utility companies, commercial organisations, and critical infrastructure nationwide. In 2024, we began a strategic investment in technology to improve service delivery, transparency, and operational efficiency — building a new digital platform to manage the delivery of time critical water supplies in the UK and create the foundation for growth into new markets.

Our Product Vision:

We are building the Water Direct Platform – a web and mobile platform that connects our clients, operations team, assets, drivers, and 3rd party contractors. This will transform a historically manual, phone-and-spreadsheet based process of managing water outages into a transparent, efficient, and scalable system — improving outcomes for households and businesses across the UK.

The Team:

We operate a lean, highly capable product and engineering team led by our CPO and Engineering Lead — both ex-Googlers who previously scaled a SaaS product from inception to acquisition.

Our core technology stack is Python / Django (backend) with HTML/HTMLX/React (web) and Flutter (mobile), supported by a modern cloud-native toolchain for CI/CD, monitoring, and data. As we move beyond core operations, we are increasingly exploring automation, data-driven decisioning, and AI- enabled workflows.

The Role:

We are looking for a Full-Stack Software Developer to play a key role in building and scaling the Water Direct platform.

We are looking for someone who is:

• A full-stack engineer with 3-5 years experience n Python / Django

• Experience building modern web applications

• Experienced designing and maintaining scalable, well-structured APIs

• Comfortable taking ownership of features from concept to production

• Able to work autonomously in a hybrid, async-friendly environment

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with strong commercial awareness

• Comfortable collaborating closely with Product and Engineering leadership

• Interested in automation, data, and emerging technologies (ML/AI exposure a plus)

• Proactive in improving code quality, architecture, and developer experience

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, real-world operational environment

Remuneration:

• UK Hybrid Role: Preference for 3 days / week in London office or aternatively willing to travel to London for 5+ days per month

• UK Right to Work Required

Benefits:

• Competitive package of £65,000–£75,000 + up to 10% performance bonus

• 23 days Annual Leave + BH

• Company pension.

• Hybrid working

• Private Healthcare Plan *(Subject to successful completion of probation period)

• Life Assurance & EV Car scheme *(Subject to successful completion of probation period)