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# Senior Python Engineer - Fully Remote - EdTech

- **Company:** Transparency Technology
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, OAuth, SQLAlchemy, Data Ingestion, Large Language Models, Software Security, Backend, Fastapi, AI Platforms, Celery, Restful APIs
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5869548506

## About the Role

* Circa 5+ years' backend or full-stack engineering experience
 * Strong production Python
 * FastAPI or similar Python API frameworks
 * PostgreSQL and relational database design
 * SQLAlchemy / Alembic or similar
 * Async processing, workers, queues, retries and batching
 * API security, OAuth/JWT and service-to-service authentication
 * AWS or similar cloud experience
 * Comfortable owning delivery in a small, fast-moving team

This is a genuine high-ownership role in a very lean engineering environment. You'll work closely with technical leadership, influence architecture and engineering standards, and help shape the backend platform as the company scales. The role is fully remote within the UK, with only occasional London meetups, alongside equity, flexible hours, learning budget and conference support.

For a confidential discussion, contact Nathan Laidlaw at Transparent Technology.

Senior Backend Engineer, Python Engineer, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, AWS, Backend Developer, API Engineer, Async Python, Celery, Queues, REST API, SaaS, LLM Infrastructure, AI Platform, Remote UK Backend Jobs.

## Description

You'll work hands-on across Python backend services, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, asynchronous processing, queues, retries, customer integrations, authentication and AWS. You'll also work closely with AI engineers to support data ingestion, evaluation, tracing, feedback capture and operational reliability.


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