Backend Developer - Python
£650/day – 6 months – Inside IR35 – 3 days onsite (London)
Python – Kafka – AWS – TypeScript – Commodities Trading
You'll be working for a leading energy trading business, building out a modern post-trade platform that's genuinely pushing boundaries – live PnL, intraday position reporting, and digitised front office workflows.
This is a business that backs its tech, delivers fast, and builds for the long-term.
The must-haves:
- Strong Python experience (hands-on and recent)
- Experience building backend services in a product team
- Kafka or other message queue systems
- Comfortable working in fast-moving agile squads
- Experience in commodities or trading (preferred but not essential)
Nice to haves (in order of priority – at least one or two is needed):
- AWS services – S3, ECS, AppSync
- PostgreSQL or NoSQL database experience
- GraphQL or REST APIs
- TypeScript
- React or Svelte (not essential, but helpful for collaboration)
To apply – click the link or for a faster response, email Barry.Ansell@HarringtonStarr.com
