Salary: £45,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements: - 2-3 years professional software engineering experience
- Strong commercial experience with Python
- Experience with FastAPI or a similar modern Python web framework
- Some experience with TypeScript and frontend development
- Good understanding of REST APIs and frontend/backend integration
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Experience working within a cloud environment, with GCP particularly beneficial
- Good understanding of Git, automated testing, CI/CD and clean coding practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and an interest in working with data-intensive applications
- A collaborative approach and good communication skills
- Experience with Angular, React or Vue would be advantageous
- Experience with Chart.js, D3.js or other data visualisation tools would be advantageous
- Experience with Databricks, Apache Spark or distributed data processing would be advantageous
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Cloud Run would be advantageous
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies would be advantageous
- Experience with GPU or accelerated computing technologies such as CUDA, CuPy or Numba would be advantageous
- Experience with numerical or high-performance computing would be advantageous
- Experience in insurance, finance, risk, analytics or other data-intensive environments would be advantageous
Responsibilities: - Developing and maintaining backend services using Python and FastAPI
- Designing and building robust REST APIs
- Contributing to frontend applications using TypeScript
- Integrating frontend applications with backend services and data sources
- Building interactive dashboards, charts and data visualisations
- Working with PostgreSQL and ORM technologies such as SQLAlchemy
- Developing reliable, scalable and high-performance applications
- Working with cloud-native technologies, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Contributing to automated testing, CI/CD and code review processes
- Writing clean, maintainable and well-documented code
- Collaborating with engineers, data scientists and other technical specialists
- Helping integrate analytical and data-driven capabilities into production software
Technologies: - Angular
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CUDA
- D3
- Databricks
- Docker
- FastAPI
- Frontend
- GCP
- Git
- Kubernetes
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- REST
- React
- Spark
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Vue
- Web
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We are an innovative, technology-led organisation building sophisticated software platforms at the intersection of software engineering, data science, analytics and risk. We offer a collaborative environment within a small, highly capable engineering team, with genuine exposure to a broad range of technologies and challenging technical problems. This role is based in Bristol with two days per week in the office, and offers the opportunity to develop across Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, cloud, data engineering, data visualisation, APIs and high-performance computing.
last updated 39 week of 2026