Senior Python Developer
Senior Python Developer builds and maintains a production-scale AI voice assistant platform, focusing on real-time voice processing, backend services, and system reliability.
- Compensation
- £70K / yr
- Location
- Chester, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Full description
ShortList Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Python Developer to join a market-leading tech firm on a fully remote basis.
An established tech-led business is expanding its production-scale AI voice assistant platform and is looking for a Senior Python Developer to help enhance and grow the system. You’ll work across real-time voice processing, agent logic and integrations that power thousands of interactions daily.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and own robust backend systems that power a production AI voice platform, with a focus on reliability, scalability and performance.
- Develop and support services across real-time voice workflows, task coordination and integrations with third-party systems.
- Take technical ownership within the team, contributing to code quality through reviews, testing practices and well-documented solutions.
- Ensure systems run effectively in live environments, including monitoring, incident resolution and ongoing operational improvements.
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering peers, contributing to planning and mentoring less experienced developers.
Skills:
- Proven experience delivering and operating complex backend systems in live, customer-facing environments with frequent releases.
- Deep hands-on Python experience, with a track record of designing clean, reliable and maintainable services.
- Practical experience working with AI-powered or distributed systems running in production.
- Strong familiarity with modern engineering toolchains, including version control, automated testing, CI/CD and observability tooling.
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, with confidence navigating and improving interconnected systems.
The Senior Python Developer role is fully remote, with a preference for candidates based near Chester for occasional onsite collaboration if required. The role is paying circa £70,000 with some flex for the right individual with Voice experience.
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