Python Developer
LB34
Posted: 21/10/2025
- £65k to £90k base + ~1% equity + benefits
- London
Python Developer | AI x Healthcare Data
£65k to £90k base + ~1% equity + benefits
Hybrid in London. At least 3 days on site
The mission:
Build an AI indexed knowledge graph of doctors and a search layer that helps teams plan go to market with data, not guesswork. Own backend services that power search, data flows, and product features.
What you will do
- Build Python services and APIs that ship to production
- Operate and tune Elasticsearch for relevance, indexing, and pagination
- Design schemas and pipelines across Postgres and MongoDB
- Run CI and CD, improve build times, handle deployments and rollbacks
- Collaborate with data and ML to productionise models
- Instrument for observability and own incidents end to end
What you will bring
- 1+ year engineering with strong Python in production
- Hands on Elasticsearch experience
- Solid SQL plus practical MongoDB
- CI and CD experience, version control best practice
- Comfortable with Azure or Google Cloud
- Product mindset, clear communication, UK work rights, 3 days on site
Why this is worth your time
- High ownership on core systems with visible user impact
- Early equity with room to grow
- Fast cycles, pragmatic engineering, zero theatrics
- Senior peers and in person collaboration
The process
Screening chat, technical screen, on site super day covering coding, system design, and execution. References, then offer. Adjustments available.
Understanding Recruitment is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable adjustment
Joshua Smith
Head of Python Recruitment