Python Developer – SC Eligible

Project overview

Python Developer – SC Eligible

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Python Developer – SC Eligible on a Remote basis for an initial 11 month contract

*INSIDE IR35*

*SC ELIGIBLE*

Job Spec:

Responsibilities

Key Skills:

Desirable skills:

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

• Design, build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput Python services and APIs
• Profile and tune application performance to meet near real-time requirements
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues across services, containers and Kubernetes workloads
• Contribute to architecture and design decisions, balancing performance, scalability and maintainability
• Containerise applications and manage deployments, configuration and resource tuning on Kubernetes
• Write unit and integration tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines
• Deep experience in Python development, writing clean, maintainable, production-grade code
• Proven performance tuning expertise: profiling CPU, memory and I/O, optimising latency and throughput, and tuning concurrency (asyncio, multiprocessing, threading)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across code, infrastructure and distributed systems, including root-cause analysis of production incidents
• Solid software design skills: designing modular, scalable and testable systems using sound architectural patterns
• Experience building near real-time systems, such as event-driven or streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, WebSockets)
• Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or gRPC) using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerisation (Docker), including deploying, scaling and debugging services in clusters
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure or GCP), including managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE)
• Performance optimisation with Python, Rust or C extensions

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: remote
• Location: England, GB
• Languages: English