UK or Bulgaria with flexible home, office, or hybrid working
Office locations:
HQ's = Newcastle and Sofia
UK Hubs
= Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and London.
About the role
Join our cross-functional team to design and build high-performance, scalable Python solutions using modern frameworks and cloud-native practices.
What you'll do
Develop RESTful APIs with Django REST Framework
Implement real-time and async processing (Celery, Redis, SSE).
Manage AWS or Azure infrastructure: containers, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation).
Ensure scalability, reliability and clean architecture across projects.
Who is hedgehog lab
We're an outcome-driven product consultancy where product, design and research sit side by side.
You'll join a team that values curiosity, collaboration and impact, building products that truly matter.
hedgehog lab's UK benefits
28 days holidays + bank holidays
5 Impact Days per year to spend on L&D, volunteering or innovation
Flexible working environment
Enhanced parental policy
Financial well-being services
Annual wellbeing budget + two days of wellbeing
Mental health support
Cycle-to-work scheme
Company-supplied Apple Mac
Required experience
Proven experience building production Python backends and APIs.
Strong knowledge of Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Celery and Redis.
Cloud experience (AWS or Azure), containers, CI/CD and testing (Pytest).
Ability to own technical decisions and deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
Nice to have, but not essential
Stripe API integrations.
Serverless or event-driven architecture.
Terraform / CloudFormation experience.
Authentication via AWS Cognito.
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