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# Senior Python Developer

- **Company:** RMG DIGITAL
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £130,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Algorithmic Trading, Code Review, Web Scraping, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Enterprise Messaging Systems, Reverse Engineering, Data Logging, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Real Time Data, Dynatrace
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d189210d38c36510

## About the Role

* Strong backend engineering experience using Python
 * Commercial experience building web scraping, data extraction or automated data collection systems
 * Experience working with asynchronous Python, ideally using asyncio
 * An understanding of browser behaviour, HTTP, APIs, authentication, cookies, sessions and network requests
 * Experience reverse engineering websites or undocumented third-party integrations
 * Knowledge of distributed systems, messaging platforms or event-driven architecture
 * A thoughtful approach to reliability, resilience and operational behaviour
 * Strong judgement around architecture, maintainability and pragmatic delivery
 * Confidence working with business-critical production systems
 * Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Experience with trading systems, real-time data feeds, low-latency services, browser automation or rapidly changing third-party platforms would be particularly relevant.

## Description

A specialist sports modelling and trading technology business is looking for a Senior Python Backend Engineer to join its platform team on an initial six-month contract.
The role will focus on a business-critical web scraping project designed to expand and improve access to external liquidity providers and real-time market data. You'll build reliable, low-latency services that collect, process and distribute data from external platforms, including systems that may not provide stable or conventional APIs.
This is a strong opportunity for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys technically challenging work involving web scraping, reverse engineering, real-time data, imperfect third-party integrations and production systems where speed, correctness and reliability all matter.
You'll work within a small, highly capable engineering team and take ownership of services with a direct commercial impact.
What you'll be doing

 * Building and maintaining high-performance web scraping and data collection services using Python and asyncio
 * Reverse engineering websites, network requests and third-party platforms to identify reliable methods of accessing real-time data
 * Developing low-latency data feeds that integrate with internal trading systems
 * Designing resilient services that can respond to changes in external websites and data sources
 * Managing challenges such as session handling, authentication, rate limits, retries, timeouts and changing page structures
 * Creating stable internal interfaces that shield the wider trading platform from unreliable external systems
 * Working with distributed systems, event-driven architecture and high-throughput messaging
 * Improving observability using structured logging, latency metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, heartbeats and alerting
 * Contributing to architectural decisions and the technical direction of the project
 * Supporting engineering quality through code reviews, documentation and knowledge sharing


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