Backend Engineer (Python/AWS)

A fast-scaling, AI-enabled property technology business is hiring a Back End Engineer to help build the next generation of products powering a rapidly growing platform.

Backed by significant funding and scaling quickly through acquisition and technology, the business is using AI and automation to modernise a fragmented industry at scale.

This role is not about maintaining legacy systems or working through endless tickets. It is for someone who thrives in fast-moving engineering environments and already uses modern AI-assisted development workflows as part of how they build software.

Location: Mostly remote with 1 or 2 London office visits a month

What you’ll be doing:

• Build and scale modern Backend applications using Python (FastAPI)
• Work closely with product, design and engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities
• Operate in a highly iterative, AI-enabled engineering environment
• Use agentic development workflows and AI tooling to accelerate delivery and improve output.
• Contribute to Backend architecture, component systems and overall engineering standards
• Collaborate with Frontend engineers working across React and modern infrastructure tooling
• Help shape engineering processes within a fast-scaling technology business

What you’ll need:

• Strong commercial experience with Python and FastAPI experience is essential
• Experience within high-performance scaleups or fast-growth product businesses
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted or agentic development workflows as part of your day-to-day engineering process. Claude, Cursor etc
• Strong product mindset with the ability to move quickly and operate autonomously
• Experience working closely with modern Frontend environments is beneficial
• Exposure to React is advantageous

This role would suit someone coming from a high-growth scaleup environment who enjoys modern engineering workflows, operates with high autonomy and wants to help build a category-defining platform.