Senior Python Engineer

Godel Technologies Europe is a software engineering company headquartered in Manchester, UK, with over 1.5k employees across Europe and 1.2k in Poland across five offices including Warsaw. They deliver agile at scale and build mission critical products for leading UK brands such as SHELL Energy, the Gym Group, Secret Escapes, ao.com, DealTrak, and theidol.com.

Must have:

• Strong Python engineering skills, ideally with production Django experience on complex, large-scale applications
• Good understanding of integration patterns, API development (REST / GraphQL), and third-party system interoperability
• Solid experience in building automated tests: unit, integration, and E2E tests
• Passion for clean code, peer reviews, and high code quality standards
• Familiarity with scaling large systems — vertical scaling, single-tenant deployments
• Self-driven, comfortable with autonomy and open team cultures
• Experience working with or around AWS services (RDS, S3, Kubernetes, SQS, RabbitMQ)
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Readiness to work with Windows (WSL)

Nice to have:

• Frontend experience (React)
• Code generation tools, AI assistants – Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable finance-focused backend solutions using Python and Django
• Integrate external systems and third-party APIs
• Work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to define, size, and solve real-world telecom customer problems
• Write high-quality, well-tested code ensuring reliable daily deployments to production
• Participate in peer reviews, refinements, and continuous feedback loops across a multi-disciplinary team
• Maintain a developer-first quality culture: own unit, integration, and functional testing
• Be part of a weekly engineering goal-setting process (lean Kanban-style working)