You will design and build scalable backend systems and data infrastructure to automate financial processes, utilizing Python and GCP for global clients.
Mid Back End Engineer (Python & GCP)
Delivering scalable data infrastructure that transforms manual financial and actuarial processes into automated, auditable workflows. To deliver robust, scalable backend systems and data infrastructure that power automated data pipelines and dashboards for our global life reinsurance client in Bermuda.
Hands On Experience:
- Building production Python applications with strong software engineering practices
- Designing and implementing distributed, large-scale systems
- Architecting solutions from scratch across the full development lifecycle
- Working with event-driven architectures and data pipelines
Requirements
Must Have:
- 4+ years production experience with Python including modern frameworks, testing, and deployment practices
- Proven experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
- Strong system architecture skills with ability to translate requirements into technical designs
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, message queues)
- Experience with containerisation (Docker) and cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
- Track record of taking requirements from concept through to production delivery
Bonus (Nice to have):
- Experience with dbt for data transformation workflows
- BigQuery or similar cloud data warehouse experience
- Proficiency with GoLang for high-performance services
- Financial services or data platform experience
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- Outside IR35
- Long term contract
- £500 - £550/Day
Top Skills
BigQuery
Dbt
Docker
GCP
Go
Python
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