Senior Backend Engineer – Python/AWS

Employer: Enverse Ltd

Position: Senior Backend Engineer – Python/AWS

Salary: £45,000 – £70,000 a year

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Work location: London

FULL JOB DESCRIPTION

Enverse is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to help build the next generation of industrial data analytics and management platforms.

As one of the early technical hires, you will take ownership of core backend services running in production and help shape the system architecture as the platform scales. This is a hands-on role with significant technical influence and visibility across the company.

The role is South England / London based and requires attendance at the co-working space at least 2 non-consecutive days per week. You will work closely with the CEO and cross-functional engineering teams.

Enverse is a start/scale-up. Candidates should expect a dynamic environment, high ownership, and occasional cross-functional responsibilities. We appreciate if candidate would set the right expectation on working in a startup environment.

We expect this role to grow into technical leadership or product ownership depending on the individual’s capability and trajectory.

Our tech stack is FastAPI deployed on AWS ECR. Frontend is typescript using Metronics typescript template, hosted on AWS. Our database is TigerData.

Your Responsibilities include:

• Design, build, and scale backend services for EnverseSkyBridge

• Own API design, performance, and reliability in production environment

• Produce and maintain high-quality API and system documentation

• Architect backend systems for both cloud-native and edge/local deployments

• Implement robust unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies

• Optimise system performance, scalability, and resource efficiency

• Lead CI/CD improvements and production deployment workflows

• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and engineering standards

Work schedule

• Fixed term contract

• Contract length: 12 months

You will have

• Experience: Python: 4 years (required)

• Work authorisation: United Kingdom (required)

Requirements

• Strong Python expertise (Python 3.11+) in production environments

• 4 years of experience for developing in Python, FastAPI, and Docker

• Excellent understanding of object-oriented and modular design principles

• Proven experience designing and operating microservices architectures

• Solid AWS experience (compute, networking, container workflows, IaaS)

• Strong experience in developing application using FastAPI

• Strong experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs

• Hands-on experience with Docker and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong SQL knowledge and experience with SQLAlchemyor equivalent ORM

• Comfortable working in fast-moving startup environments

• Strong product and system design judgement

• (Bonus) Experience in the energy sector

Benefits

• Company pension

• 22 days annual leave (plus public holidays)

• Private medical insurance

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Application Process

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