Senior Python Backend Engineer Web Scraping Project
6-month contract 500 per day London Hybrid working
A specialist sports modelling and trading technology business is looking for a Senior Python Backend Engineer to join its platform team on an initial six-month contract.
The role will focus on a business-critical web scraping project designed to expand and improve access to external liquidity providers and real-time market data. Youll build reliable low-latency services that collect process and distribute data from external platforms including systems that may not provide stable or conventional APIs.
This is a strong opportunity for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys technically challenging work involving web scraping reverse engineering real-time data imperfect third-party integrations and production systems where speed correctness and reliability all matter.
Youll work within a small highly capable engineering team and take ownership of services with a direct commercial impact.
What youll be doing
What were looking for
Experience with trading systems real-time data feeds low-latency services browser automation or rapidly changing third-party platforms would be particularly relevant.
Technology environment
The wider technology environment includes:
Python asyncio Kafka RabbitMQ Redis PostgreSQL LXD Containers Ansible and OpenTelemetry alongside modern AI engineering tools such asClaude Code Cursor and Codex.
Contract details
For a Senior Python Backend Engineer who wants to work at the sharp end of real-time trading technology this is an opportunity to deliver a technically complex web scraping project where performance reliability and correctness genuinely matter.
Required Experience:
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