Python Developer Outside IR35: £400 – £450 p/d 6 months initial contract, rolling extensions from there Primarily remote, ad hoc travel to client site
The client A national public body that runs a free, public-facing legal information service. Legal professionals use it every day, and anyone can access it. The amount of content it takes in keeps growing, and the engineering work behind it is growing with it.
You’ll join a digital supplier that has worked on the service for more than four years, alongside the in-house team. The supplier already has a lead developer, a front-end developer, a .NET developer and a part-time delivery manager in place.
The role This is a hands-on Python role. You’ll be part of the wider team, but you may own a separate part of the service yourself. You need to be comfortable taking a problem, deciding the approach and delivering it without close direction.
What you’ll do
Join our client, a digital partner embedded with this central government body for over four years
Work alongside a Lead Dev, Front-End Dev, .NET Dev and Delivery Manager
Own a part of the service end to end, sometimes one nobody else is touching
Write production Python for a live, open-source public service
Help the platform scale as courts send in more judgments every week
What you’ll bring
Strong commercial Python
The confidence to take a problem, shape it and ship it without hand-holding
Live-service habits: tests, code review, CI/CD
Bonus points
MarkLogic
XML and structured data (XPath, XQuery, XSLT)
Django, AWS, Docker
An interest in legal tech, open data or public services
