Backend Engineer with GCP & Python x 2
8 Months
Hybrid 2 Days onsite
Inside IR35
My client a top Global company are currently looking to recruit a Backend Engineer with GCP & Python to join their team on a contract basis. Please note if successful you will need to set up via an Umbrella Company/PAYE. A specialised research Data Platform represents a major investment by our clients Digital & Tech team, designed to deliver a step-change in ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. This is a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data/metadata/knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms.
Key Responsibilities and skills for the Backend Engineer with GCP & Python:
- Python
- GCP
- Docker/Containers
- Microservices
- Big Query
- Cloud experience (eg Google Cloud and Cloud Run preferred) including core web application infrastructure
- Intermediate to advanced skills in Python
- Unit testing experience (eg pytest)
- Knowledge of agile practices and able to perform in agile software development environments
- Knowledge of modern software development tools/ways of working (eg git/GitHub, DevOps tools for deployment) should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often
- Demonstrated experience of Python Back End development (eg using FastAPI)
- Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and deployment of AI/ML powered applications
- Experience with Docker or containerized applications, especially architecture of multi-container applications
- Back End development for a Python web application
- Integration of AI/ML components with Front End, data and compute infrastructure
- Scale up of web application using cloud infrastructure
- Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
- Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
- Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
- Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.