AWS Software Engineer (Contract) – Python / FastAPI
6 Month Contract – Fully Remote – Daily Rate: £500 Outside IR35
We’re looking for experienced AWS Software Engineers (contractors) to join an established platform engineering team and help take a proof‑of‑concept Identity & Access Management (IAM) system into production.
This is a hands‑on engineering role suited to senior Python developers who enjoy building production systems from the ground up and working independently on application development, while collaborating closely with a wider AWS platform team.
What you’ll be working on
- Building a FastAPI‑based headless service to manage REST APIs for user and group IAM relationships in AWS
- Designing and delivering a technical audit service for the IAM system
- Supporting the IAM syncing solution to meet production standards
- Implementing robust QA and testing strategies
- Ensuring non‑functional requirements are met (scalability, performance, reliability)
- Contributing strong software engineering skills to complement the existing platform team
Core requirements
- 5+ years of hands‑on Python development
- Production experience with FastAPI, Django, or Flask (FastAPI preferred)
- Strong experience building RESTful APIs
- Experience with relational and non‑relational databases
- Proven experience building applications from scratch and taking them to production
- Experience supporting production systems handling high traffic
- 5+ years of AWS (or equivalent cloud) experience
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture
- Experience with serverless technologies
- Solid knowledge of asynchronous programming models
- Familiarity with Terraform concepts (writing not required)
- Comfortable taking systems live and maintaining production services
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services, and Hospitals and Health Care
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