Senior Python Engineer

Company: Calibre Global Consulting

Location: London

Posted: April 29th, 2026

Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable software solutions, ensuring alignment with Principals and Architects.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, QA, and DevOps, to deliver high-quality features.
Lead code reviews and technical discussions, and contribute to architectural decisions.
Lead complex coding tasks; ensure code quality.
Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers.
Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
Estimate work; lead delivery of features from the roadmap.
Solve ambiguous problems with scalable solutions.

Essential:

Strong expertise in Python web development frameworks (e.g., Django) and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Must have API Design experience
Skilled in applying software technical design principles to build scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions within modern cloud-based architectures.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.
Strong problem-solving & communication skills.
Adaptability/willingness to learn (e.g., Agile).
Technical leadership (mentoring, best-practice guidance).
Must have either independently designed cloud-hosted services and APIs with moderate complexity, considering scalability and reliability OR led or designed distributed systems with multiple interacting components, including trade-off analysis, performance in the cloud. I.e just contributing to design discussions but primarily implementing components within predefined cloud architectures is not enough.