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Python Developer [Remote]


Company : Knowledge Bank


Location : Cawthorne, England


Created : 2025-05-06


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Looking to put your Python skills to work on an award-winning platform that thousands of professionals rely on every day? Were an established, award-winning UK fintech developing reliable, well-structured web-apps and APIs for professionals across the financial services industry. Our platform is widely used and plays a central role in daily workflows the tools you help build will be seen, used, and relied on at scale. We care about code quality, clarity, and usability . Every feature we release is designed with the end user in mind, and we take pride in building systems that are scalable, maintainable, and secure. Youll join a small, capable team that values good architecture, practical UX thinking, and shipping work were proud of. If you enjoy solving real problems with clean, focused engineering this could be your next move. What Youll Be Doing Building, migrating and maintaining backend services in Python (FastAPI) Writing clean, efficient JavaScript (vanilla, but frameworks considered) Contributing to software and product design including data flow, structure, and UI behaviour Working on a varied mix of features including web apps, APIs, PDF generation, large-scale web scraping, backend admin tools, data processing, and integrations with 3rd-party apps Helping evolve scalable, maintainable systems used at scale across the UK Collaborating with product and UX teams to ship polished, purposeful features Writing code that follows best practices for maintainability, performance, and security from validation and sanitation to architectural decisions Understanding how data moves through our systems (you wont manage the DBs, but youll work with them) Using Git confidently for version control and team collaboration Attending quarterly team meetups (and other team events) in Central England (UK driving licence or good transport links required) About You Youve got 2+ years' commercial experience in software development using Python 3+ You're comfortable with FastAPI or similar frameworks (but we're building in FastAPI) You know your way around JavaScript and CSS You have a working knowledge of frameworks like Tailscale CSS or similar You understand how databases work queries, structure even if youre not managing them directly Youre confident using Git and working in a collaborative team You think beyond code about product purpose, user experience, and long-term maintainability Youre UK-based and have the right to work in the UK (we cant offer visa sponsorship). Our HQ is in South Yorkshire. Bonus Points For Familiarity with AWS , especially Lambda functions Experience in fintech, regulated industries, or tools used by large-scale professional users Exposure to CI/CD pipelines , cloud deployment, logging or observability tools Experience working closely with designers or contributing to user-focused product decisions Involvement in scalable architecture or service-based system design What Youll Get A remote-first role with real flexibility A say in how we build from architecture to dev tools to UX A practical, evolving stack and room to modernise and shape it 25 days holiday + bank holidays Auto-enrolment pension Whats Next? Send us your CV and a short message telling us why this sounds like a good fit. We'll schedule a remote call as the next step (unless youre local to South Yorkshire were happy to meet in person). We're moving quickly so once we hear from you, we'll be in touch. TPBN1_UKTJ