Python Engineer

Newcastle upon Tyne - UK

Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job title: Python Engineer
Type: Full-time Permanent
Location: UK or Bulgaria with flexible home office or hybrid working
Office locations: HQs Newcastle and Sofia
UK Hubs Edinburgh Leeds Manchester and London.

About the role
Join our cross-functional team to design and build high-performance scalable Python solutions using modern frameworks and cloud-native practices.

What youll do

Develop RESTful APIs with Django REST Framework
Implement real-time and async processing (Celery Redis SSE).
Manage AWS or Azure infrastructure: containers CI/CD IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation).
Ensure scalability reliability and clean architecture across projects.

Who is hedgehog lab

Were an outcome-driven product consultancy where product design and research sit side by side.

Youll join a team that values curiosity collaboration and impact building products that truly matter.

hedgehog labs UK benefits

28 days holidays bank holidays
5 Impact Days per year to spend on L&D volunteering or innovation
Flexible working environment
Enhanced parental policy
Financial well-being services
Annual wellbeing budget two days of wellbeing
Mental health support
Cycle-to-work scheme
Company-supplied Apple Mac

Required experience

Proven experience building production Python backends and APIs.
Strong knowledge of Django REST Framework PostgreSQL Celery and Redis.
Cloud experience (AWS or Azure) containers CI/CD and testing (Pytest).
Ability to own technical decisions and deliver high-quality maintainable code.

Nice to have but not essential

Stripe API integrations.
Serverless or event-driven architecture.
Terraform / CloudFormation experience.
Authentication via AWS Cognito.

Ready to apply

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Job title: Python EngineerType: Full-time PermanentLocation: UK or Bulgaria with flexible home office or hybrid workingOffice locations: HQs Newcastle and SofiaUK Hubs Edinburgh Leeds Manchester and London.About the roleJoin our cross-functional team to design and build high-performance scalable P...