Senior Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django)
Senior backend engineer owning production Python/Django services behind Verisk Maplecroft's client-facing risk analytics — shaping architecture, security, and reliability from design through deployment, with REST APIs, CI/CD, and AWS. Remote within the UK, working with product, QA, and platform teams.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bath, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong commercial experience building and supporting backend services in production
- Strong hands-on Python development experience
- Production Django experience (request lifecycle, ORM, migrations, configuration, testing)
- Designing maintainable APIs and backend systems with REST, data modeling, and relational databases
- Knowledge of authentication/authorization including SSO and secure API design
- Experience with automated testing, peer code review, CI/CD, and delivery practices
- Experience diagnosing live environment issues (application, database, networking, performance)
- Understanding of cloud-hosted apps and infrastructure as code
- Strong understanding of backend security risks and lifecycle-wide mitigation
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues
- Clear communication and collaborative mindset
Nice to have
- AWS experience
Full description
Overview
In this role you will own and deliver production-grade backend solutions that power client-facing risk analytics. You will develop in Python and Django, shaping architecture, security, and reliability for scalable services. Working across product, QA, and platform teams, you’ll advance automation and responsibly apply AI-assisted development. The opportunity centers on building impactful technology that translates complex global risk data into actionable intelligence, within Verisk Maplecroft’s mission. This role offers remote work within the UK and a path to meaningful technical leadership.
Pay / Benefits
- Remote contract within UK
- Short-term incentive
- Medical coverage
- Pension plans
- Paid time off
- Well-being initiatives
Responsibilities
- Own meaningful backend engineering work from design to deployment
- Build production Python and Django services that support client-facing technology
- Influence architecture, security, reliability, testing, and maintainability decisions
- Collaborate with product, QA, platform, and engineering teams across the software lifecycle
- Advance automation and responsible use of AI-assisted development
- Apply engineering skills to data and technology designed to illuminate global risks
Key requirements
- Strong commercial software engineering experience building and supporting backend services in production
- Strong hands-on Python development experience
- Production experience with Django (request lifecycle, ORM, migrations, configuration, testing)
- Experience designing maintainable APIs and backend systems with REST, data modeling, and relational databases
- Knowledge of authentication/authorization including SSO and secure API design
- Experience with automated testing, peer code review, CI/CD, and delivery practices
- Experience diagnosing live environment issues (application, database, networking, performance)
- Understanding of cloud-hosted apps and infrastructure as code, ideally AWS
- Strong understanding of backend security risks and lifecycle-wide mitigation
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical colleagues
- Clear communication
- Collaborative mindset
- Judgment in explaining trade-offs
- Python
- Django
- REST API design