Company Description
Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines delivering results with enjoyment.
Job Description
Project – the aim you’ll have
Our team works with a leading UK-based insurance company to build and evolve a proprietary data platform that helps identify vulnerabilities and proactively reduce cyber risk.
The platform ingests and processes large volumes of vulnerability intelligence data from multiple sources.
It powers scalable backend services, high-performance APIs and event-driven data processing, helping businesses identify and manage cybersecurity risks that may impact them and their customers.
This is not a typical CRUD application.
You’ll be working with large-scale data processing, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and real-world cybersecurity challenges - with Python at the heart of the platform.
Role – how you’ll contribute
As a Senior Python Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and developing scalable backend solutions for a data-intensive platform.
You'll collaborate closely with experienced engineers to build reliable services, shape technical solutions, and contribute to the evolution of the platform and engineering practices.
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Python.
- Build scalable solutions for ingesting, processing and transforming large datasets.
- Work with Microsoft Azure, including containerized workloads, batch processing, PostgreSQL and event-driven architectures.
- Contribute to cloud-native architecture, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
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