Outside Spy
St Albans, UK
Senior Python Backend Engineer - Real-Time Distributed Systems £550/day Outside IR35 Watford / Hybrid (Initial onsite, then mainly remote) 4-month contract We’re working with a highly engineering-led technology business building large-scale real-time backend systems within a distributed Azure environment. This is not a role for architects, managers, or high-level solution designers. We are specifically looking for deeply hands-on Python backend engineers who are comfortable operating at implementation level within complex distributed systems. The environment is heavily focused on: Real-time event-driven processing High-throughput backend services Distributed microservice architectures Low-latency data ingestion pipelines Operational resilience and observability Production-scale concurrency and asynchronous processing You’ll be joining a team working on systems that continuously ingest and process large volumes of operational and telemetry-style data from...