Senior Backend Software Engineer, Python

full-time

Posted on: 1/28/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cambridge • United Kingdom

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About the role

You will be working on the HP Wolf Security Cloud Service
The API and UI back-end (Python, Django, Django REST Framework)
The background worker service / task queues (Celery, Dramatiq)
Container-based packaging (Linux, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Docker)
Supporting operational deployment using AWS (S3, ECS, RDS, etc.)
Integrations with other cloud systems (Elastic/Kibana, Salesforce, InterWorks, Azure, other internal HP systems)
Maintaining product compatibility for customers' self-hosted, on-premise servers (Windows, IIS, SQL Server)
Unit tests, Playwright/Selenium tests, automated installation tests, static code analysis

Proven experience working with Python for web applications
Successful experience of designing scalable web services
Experience in tuning and optimising SQL queries, indices and other techniques to get the best performance out of the DBMS
Understanding of ORM web frameworks
Understanding of HTTP, caching, performance tradeoffs
Understanding of web security issues and how to design to avoid them
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Experience designing and deploying cloud services at scale
Experience using distributed task queue systems, such as Celery
Some experience in front-end development

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonDjangoDjango REST FrameworkCeleryDramatiqLinuxNginxPostgreSQLDockerSQL

Soft Skills

designing scalable web servicesoptimizing performanceunderstanding web security issues

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science