Job Description

Job title:

Python Engineer

Type:

Full-time, Permanent

Location:

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.

Ready to apply?

Submit your application below. Please note that we're unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.