Backend Engineer

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: May 7 2027
Work set up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Clearance required: BPSS checks. Candidates must be eligible for BPSS clearance

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Backend Engineer to join its growing technology team. This role will focus on designing building and maintaining secure scalable and high-performing backend services that support critical business applications and AI-enabled solutions. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing robust APIs integrating enterprise systems and delivering innovative solutions that leverage modern cloud technologies and Generative AI capabilities.

Collaborate closely with product managers designers data specialists architects and fellow engineers to transform business requirements into reliable and maintainable technical solutions. Demonstrate strong engineering fundamentals uphold software development best practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of the technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Design develop test deploy and maintain secure scalable backend applications services and RESTful APIs primarily using Python.
• Deliver high-quality production-ready software through modern engineering practices including version control automated testing peer code reviews CI/CD pipelines and technical documentation.
• Integrate backend services with enterprise platforms data sources and third-party APIs ensuring effective authentication authorisation resilience and error handling.
• Build and support AI-enabled capabilities including Large Language Model (LLM) integrations Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) prompt engineering workflows and agent-based architectures.
• Implement AI governance practices including model evaluation monitoring guardrails security controls and human oversight to ensure responsible and reliable deployment of AI solutions.
• Investigate and resolve application defects performance bottlenecks and operational incidents using logs metrics tracing and observability tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements define technical approaches and deliver successful outcomes.
• Participate in architecture and technical design discussions providing estimates and recommendations to support project planning and delivery.
• Stay informed of emerging trends in software engineering cloud technologies cybersecurity and artificial intelligence applying relevant innovations where appropriate.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development standards processes and engineering practices.

Qualifications :

• Strong commercial experience developing backend applications and services using Python.
• Proven experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with Python frameworks such as FastAPI Flask or Django.
• Experience using testing frameworks such as pytest and working with package and dependency management tools.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles including clean code object-oriented and/or functional programming debugging testing strategies API design and source control.
• Experience working with both relational and NoSQL databases including data modelling and query optimisation.
• Practical experience implementing Generative AI solutions using LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks.
• Solid understanding of RAG architectures embeddings vector databases prompt engineering AI evaluation techniques agent workflows and AI safety controls.
• Experience with cloud platforms containerisation technologies and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices including secrets management access control dependency management and data protection.
• Strong analytical thinking troubleshooting capabilities and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Front-end development experience using React TypeScript JavaScript and modern UI component libraries is desirable.
• Experience building full-stack applications or working closely with front-end teams to define API contracts and user experiences is desirable.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools including application logging monitoring platforms and distributed tracing solutions is desirable.
• Experience delivering solutions within regulated enterprise-scale financial services or security-conscious environments is desirable.

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract