Senior Python Backend Engineer - Fully Remote, UK

• Own the design, development, and operation of the core backend services that power our consumer-facing products and internal operational tooling.
• Build scalable, low-latency systems that can handle real-time updates and significant traffic spikes during live matchdays, using caching, load management, and graceful degradation techniques.
• Lead the architecture and management of identity and user state, including authentication, profiles, preferences, permissions, and privacy-conscious data handling.
• Develop and maintain our notification platform, including push notifications (APNs/FCM), user notification preferences, audience segmentation, and delivery tracking.
• Integrate with third-party data providers and external services, ensuring robust failure handling, observability, and system resilience.
• Design and support secure internal tooling APIs, including role-based access controls, audit trails, change history, and safe administrative workflows.
• Build and operate event-driven systems using queues, background jobs, and reliable processing patterns, including retries, idempotency, and outbox architectures.
• Partner closely with the data function to implement analytics event collection, maintain event schema integrity, and support downstream data and warehouse requirements.
• Own cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, including provisioning, networking, IAM, security, and cost optimisation.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment configuration to ensure reliable and efficient software delivery.

• Senior backend experience shipping production systems for high-traffic consumer products, including spiky live-event load.
• Hands-on AWS experience running and operating real production workloads, not just deploying to it.
• Strong Postgres and SQL skills, including schema design, query tuning, and migrations.
• Strong API design experience, including clear contracts, versioning, and backwards compatibility.
• Python-first experience, ideally with FastAPI or a similar framework.
• Redis experience, including caching patterns, invalidation, and pub/sub where appropriate.
• CI/CD fluency and comfort operating your own services.

Working Style

This is a fully remote role, and we're looking for someone who communicates clearly, works independently, and collaborates well across product, data, and client-side teams. You'll have the freedom to shape technical direction and the expectation to take real ownership of what you build.

This is a fully remote role, open to candidates based in the UK. It offers a high degree of autonomy, influence, and responsibility, ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys building from the ground up. The salary range is up to £120,000 depending on experience and fit.