Senior Backend Python Engineer

Senior Backend Python Engineer (UK-based (remote), ~£130-150K + perks)

Join a fast-growing sports-tech success story and take real ownership of the systems that power live-event traffic at scale.

This isn’t a “ticket-taker” backend role. You’ll own your services end-to-end — designing them, shipping them, and keeping them running in production. You’ll shape the architecture, drive key technical decisions, and have genuine autonomy to build the platform the right way.

** What you’ll be doing:

• Leading backend development across event-driven, high-availability systems

• Owning cloud infrastructure across AWS & GCP

• Building with Python (FastAPI or similar), Postgres, and Redis

• Designing clean, versioned, backwards-compatible APIs

• Driving CI/CD and observability for systems that can’t afford downtime during live events

What we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience running real production workloads on AWS — not just deploying to it

• Strong Postgres/SQL skills: schema design, query tuning, migrations

• Solid API design chops: clear contracts, versioning, backwards compatibility

• Python-first mindset (FastAPI or similar)

• Redis experience: caching patterns, invalidation, pub/sub

• Comfort owning and operating your own services in CI/CD

** Fully remote within the UK, with monthly in-person engineering get-togethers to keep the team connected.

** Circa £130-150K + generous perks.

If you thrive in fast-moving environments, love building from the ground up, and want real influence over a platform’s future — let’s talk.