Senior Software Engineer - Python

Title: Senior Software Engineer – Python  
Department: Procode IT 
Location: Hybrid - Commuting distance of our Oxford office   
Salary: Circa £56,065 + up to 15% discretionary bonus scheme 
Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role   
Are you a senior‑level engineer who loves building scalable systems in Python and AWS and enjoy sharing knowledge and elevating those around you?  
Do you live within a commutable distance of Oxford?  
If you said yes to the above, then we’d love to hear from you! 
About us  
We are a dynamic software company. Established in 2006, with a vision of helping the energy and utilities sectors improve customer experience and lower their cost to serve, using smarter process automation. 
Are you curious about what the future in tech holds? Do you have the drive to want to deliver great solutions for customers?  
Then we have an exciting opportunity as a Senior Software Engineer, where we aim to provide you with a uniquely inclusive and diverse workplace, which showcases the extraordinary in all of us, by enabling you to be the best you can be. 
Our promise is to put customers at the heart of everything we do; it’s part of how we live and breathe at Procode. Our hugely passionate workforce puts them at the heart of every decision we make. 
What does this role involve? 
As a Senior Python Software Engineer, you'll play a key role within a collaborative, product-focused engineering team, shaping and delivering a suite of cloud‑native services that power our next-generation platform. 
You’ll spend your time designing and writing high‑quality Python code that underpins scalable, secure, and high‑performance systems, directly influencing the reliability and evolution of our products.
Beyond engineering delivery, you’ll act as a technical mentor, guiding, coaching, and supporting engineers across the team, helping to foster a culture of continual learning, modern engineering practices, and technical excellence. 
You’ll work end‑to‑end across the software development lifecycle, from solution design and architecture through to development, deployment, and optimisation, all within a modern, AWS‑based environment. 
Who are we looking for? 
You’ll bring deep, hands-on experience building Python-based services, ideally as part of a microservices architecture, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and maintainability. 
Your commercial background should include designing and developing new APIs, maintaining and improving existing services, fixing complex bugs, and proposing robust engineering solutions that support both web and mobile applications. 
You’ll be someone who uplifts your peers, able to collaborate effectively, share knowledge openly, and help drive the continual growth and maturity of the engineering team. 
Experience working in an agile, iterative environment will ensure you integrate smoothly into our ways of working and help us continue to evolve our processes and product delivery. 
We work in a modern technical environment, using tools such as, Python, multiple AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDb, S3, API gateway), Docker, Jira, Github, Github Actions, Github CoPilot, CircleCI, PyCharm, Grafana, Postman. 
This role may involve on-call working on a rota basis (24/7) 
To be successful in this role you may be required to pass an enhanced security vetting process. 
Our employees, just like our customers come from all walks of life, and we’re fuelled in championing diversity, inspiring an inclusive culture, and enabling an environment where you can be your authentic self.  
 
Benefits - available from day one!