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 are 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 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 wellbeing services

• Annual wellbeing budget + two days 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.