Senior Backend Engineer (Python / Data) – Spain, Remote – Up to €65,000

Build data and ML powered backend systems for a major global airline.

Flexible remote across Spain. Able to travel to the client's London office once a month for two to three days.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and maintain scalable, secure server-side systems.
  • Build backend services and ML model serving for a major global airline.
  • Integrate ML models into backend systems and build API endpoints for model interaction.
  • Develop scalable microservices using REST, gRPC or GraphQL.
  • Optimise database queries and schemas for performance and reliability.
  • Write unit and integration tests and maintain clear technical documentation.
  • Monitor and optimise performance using observability tooling.

Qualifications

  • 8 plus years in backend development, with a strong focus on scalable, high performance systems.
  • Python expertise, building backend services and APIs with FastAPI, Flask or similar.
  • In depth SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) knowledge.
  • Extensive AWS experience, including database hosting, API management and serverless.
  • Docker and container orchestration such as ECS.
  • Git, GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines, plus performance tuning and scalability techniques.
  • Right to work in Spain as a full-time employee; no sponsorship available.
  • Experience with message brokers such as Kafka or AWS SQS.
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Observability tooling such as CloudWatch or Datadog.
  • Serverless and event-driven paradigms, e.g., AWS Lambda.
  • Agile and Scrum ways of working.
  • AWS certifications (preferred).

Benefits

The chance to build for a major global airline inside a consultancy in triple digit growth.

Versatile remote across Spain. Modern data and ML focused stack with genuine ownership.


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