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Python Backend Engineer

St. Albans, Hertfordshire🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $143,000–$143,000🗓 2026-05-28 → 2026-08-07

Core

Building large-scale real-time backend systems and high-throughput data ingestion pipelines within a distributed Azure environment.

Role type

Senior hands-on Python backend engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Real-time event-driven processing services, low-latency data ingestion pipelines, and operational telemetry systems

Domain

Cloud infrastructure (Azure) + Distributed systems + Real-time data processing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, asynchronous processing, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, high-throughput workloads, observability, resilience engineering, Kubernetes, Docker, FastAPI, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus/Event Hub, Cosmos DB

Preferred skills

IoT systems, telemetry, time-series data, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure-native backend patterns

Technologies

Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Event Hub, Kubernetes, AKS, Docker, Cosmos DB, FastAPI, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing production-scale backend services, debugging complex distributed systems, managing high-throughput streaming workloads, ensuring operational resilience and scaling, developing event-driven microservices

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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