AWS Software Engineer (Ref: 194893)

Company: Forsyth Barnes
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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

  • Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

  • Contract

Job function

  • IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services, and Hospitals and Health Care

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Posted: June 6th, 2026