Software Engineer - Backend

Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django) x4 | Contract | £450 to £475 per day Outside IR35 | Bath, Hybrid or Remote

Bright Purple is partnering with a well-established B2B software business to bring in a contract Backend Software Engineers. You will join the team redesigning their client portal.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced mid-level or senior Python engineer. You will design and build the APIs and backend workflows behind new portal features and own your work through to production. You will work in a collaborative product team that values good engineering, uses AI-assisted development well and wants contractors who will add to technical decisions.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining backend services and APIs using Python and Django
• Owning work end to end, from technical refinement through to deployment and monitoring
• Working closely with product, programme management, QA, platform engineering and other developers to shape practical solutions
• Making sound trade-offs across security, performance, maintainability, cost and delivery
• Breaking complex work into clear increments and raising dependencies and risks early
• Writing clean, well-tested, well-documented code with good observability built in
• Taking part in code reviews and helping improve test automation, CI/CD and production reliability

What you'll bring

• Commercial experience building and supporting backend services in production
• Strong Python skills and production Django experience, including the ORM, migrations, configuration and testing
• A track record of designing maintainable REST APIs, with solid data modelling and relational database practice
• Good knowledge of authentication, authorisation, single sign-on patterns and secure API design
• A testing mindset and experience working with CI/CD
• Confidence diagnosing application, database and performance issues in live environments
• An understanding of cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure as code, ideally in AWS
• Clear communication and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical colleagues

Nice to have

• FastAPI or another modern Python API framework
• PostgreSQL or MySQL, Docker, Celery, Redis and Sentry
• Asynchronous or event-driven processing
• AWS CDK, Terraform or similar
• Experience in agile, product-led or data-rich B2B environments

Interested please apply directly