Python Engineer - Local Authority

Spinwell Global Limited

Edinburgh, UK

3 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary to permanent

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Compensation

£139,685.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.adzuna.co.uk

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Computer Vision User Authentication Program Optimization Data Structures Database Connection Software Debugging Web Servers

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Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Machine Learning NumPy OAuth Object Detection Object-Oriented Software Development OpenCV Pair Programming Scrum Methodology Queueing Systems Software Engineering SQLAlchemy Data Logging Data Processing Cloud Monitoring Pytorch Large Language Models Grafana Deep Learning Boto3 Fastapi Pandas Kubernetes Deployment Automation HuggingFace Extreme Programming Machine Learning Operations Api Design Cloudwatch Restful APIs Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Serverless Computing

Job description

Experienced software engineers are required to provide hands-on technical leadership to an agile development team within client’s Land Registration domain seeking to leverage document processing and ML to realise new automation opportunities for the organisation., * Pandas and NumPy for data manipulation, cleaning, and numerical operations

SQLAlchemy or psycopg2 for database connectivity and ORM operations
Boto3 for AWS service integration and automation

AWS (working within Technical Lead’s architecture):

Lambda function development with proper event handling and response formatting
S3 operations including multipart uploads, presigned URLs, and event notifications
CloudWatch logging and metrics for monitoring and debugging
Understanding of IAM and security for role-based access and credential management
Experience with CDK for infrastructure deployment
SQS for message queuing
EKS/ECS/Kubernetes for containerized AI deployments

API Development:

FastAPI for building REST APIs and model serving endpoints
Requests library for HTTP client operations and external API integration
Authentication/authorization implementation (JWT, OAuth)

Software Development:

Making excellent quality AI/ML software collaboratively with other engineers
Working effectively under technical leadership while contributing specialized AI/ML expertise
Design and implementation of AI/ML solutions using service-based and serverless architecture
Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain AI/ML concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Development Practices:

Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools for AI/ML systems, including Grafana
Experience working in Agile delivery models - Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks
Formal XP engineering techniques including TDD and pair programming
Working within defined infrastructure-as-code frameworks

Requirements

Commercial experience with AI/ML technology:

OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis implementation
Machine Learning & AI Libraries including:
Transformers/Hugging Face for working with pre-trained LLMs, finetuning, and inference
PyTorch for deep learning model development and training
OpenCV for computer vision tasks and image preprocessing in object detection
PIL/Pillow for image manipulation and format conversion
YOLO object detection frameworks

Core Python Skills:

Proficiency in Python 3.9+ with understanding of object-oriented programming, decorators, context managers, and async/await patterns
Data structures and algorithms for efficient data processing and model optimization
Error handling and debugging using try-catch blocks, logging, and debugging tools