Senior Back-end Developer (Python) - AI

• Senior Backend Developer (Python) - AI
• Kings Cross, London- Onsite 2/3 days a week
• 6 month contract
• Inside of IR25
• £750 - £800 per day

My client is seeking a highly skilled software engineer to join its AI/ML team, contributing to the development of cutting-edge applications that accelerate drug discovery and enable personalised therapies. The ideal candidate will have strong Python Back End development experience, preferably with FastAPI, and be proficient in cloud-native infrastructure (Google Cloud preferred), DevOps practices, and automated testing. While a background in life sciences is a plus, a passion for improving healthcare through technology is essential. The role involves integrating AI/ML components into scalable web applications, collaborating across technical teams, and continuously improving software quality and performance.

Key responsibilities

• Back End development for a Python web application
• Integration of AI/ML components with Front End, Back End, data and compute infrastructure
• Responsible for high quality software implementations according to best practices, including automated test suites and documentation
• Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics for all tools and services and consistently seek to iterate on and improve them
• Participate in code reviews, continuously improving personal standards as well as the wider team and product
• Liaise with other technical staff and data engineers in the team and across allied teams, to build an end-to-end pipeline consuming other data products

Basic qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience of Python Back End development (eg using FastAPI)
• Cloud experience (eg Google Cloud and cloud run preferred) including core web application infrastructure is essential
• Unit testing experience (eg pytest)
• Experience within Life Sceiences or Pharma Sector
• Strong knowledge of modern software development tools/ways of working (eg git/GitHub DevOps tools for deployment) - should be able to show practice of commit early and deploy often.
• Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and deployment of AI/ML powered applications - especially using language models or NLP and agent-based approaches (eg LangGraph, PydanticAI, AutoGen)

If you are available and interested, please apply today!

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.