Job Title: Senior Python Engineer

Location: Remote (UK) with Occasional Travel - Applications from non-UK countries will be rejected
Division: Inizio Medical – Data & AI Team

About Inizio Medical

Inizio Medical is part of Inizio, the world’s leading healthcare and communications group. We are a trusted partner to pharmaceutical and healthcare clients, translating complex science into meaningful impact. Our division focuses on evidence-based communications and education for healthcare professionals and payers.

About the Role

We are seeking a senior, hands-on Python Engineer to join our growing Data & AI team. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building robust backend systems, APIs, and services that power modern applications at scale.

You will work on the backend foundations of next-generation applications, including systems that incorporate generative AI and LLM-based capabilities. Prior experience with generative AI is not required—we are looking first and foremost for a strong Python engineer with excellent software engineering fundamentals who is interested in applying those skills in a fast-evolving domain.e

You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, and product teams to design, build, and operate production-grade systems used in real-world healthcare and life sciences environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable Python services and APIs using modern backend and cloud-native patterns.
• Develop clean, testable, and well-structured Python code for data-intensive and workflow-driven applications.
• Build and integrate backend components that support AI-enabled features (e.g., orchestration layers, inference services, data pipelines).
• Integrate with third-party APIs and external services, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Own production concerns including logging, monitoring, error handling, and performance optimisation.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and containerised deployments.
• Collaborate with product, data, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into high-quality technical solutions.
• Write clear technical documentation for engineers and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to a collaborative, pragmatic, and high-quality engineering culture.

About You

• Strong professional experience as a Python engineer, building and operating production systems (e.g., SaaS platforms, backend services, data-driven applications).
• Deep knowledge of Python fundamentals, including application architecture, performance considerations, testing, and maintainability.
• Experience building backend systems using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar.
• Solid understanding of cloud-based architectures (AWS and/or Azure), containers, and microservices.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern development workflows.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed or data-heavy systems.
• Comfortable collaborating in cross-functional, Agile teams and taking ownership of delivered solutions.
• Curious, pragmatic, and motivated by building reliable systems that deliver real-world impact.

Nice to Have (Not Required)

• Exposure to data platforms or analytics workflows (e.g., Databricks, Airflow).
• Familiarity with LLMs, generative AI APIs, or AI-enabled application patterns.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry).
• Contributions to open-source projects or shared internal libraries.
• Experience in regulated or high-compliance domains (e.g., healthcare, life sciences, finance).

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including private medical insurance and company pension.
• Flexible, remote-first working environment with occasional travel.
• The opportunity to work on meaningful, high-impact products within a global healthcare organisation.
• A friendly, low-ego culture that values engineering quality, learning, and collaboration.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re a strong Python engineer who enjoys building high-quality systems and is interested in applying your skills to emerging technologies in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you.

Role & Team

As a Senior Engineer, you will have a direct impact on the development of core geospatial products and internal data-processing and annotation tools at Overstory. 

Your breadth of skills will allow you to set a technical vision for the development of the web applications, ETL pipelines, and backend services owned by these teams.

You’ll partner with product managers, external resources, and your team members to execute this vision.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and North America (NST, AST, EST, CST, MST, PST)

What You’ll Do

• Explore best practices to combine coding agents with software craftsmanship and teach other engineers these practices
• Optimize the orchestration of several object detection and image alignment models
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for millions of geospatial entities
• Contribute to the technical vision for the development of our internal annotation and QA web applications
• Work closely with your Product Manager to discover and propose new products to solve use cases such as anticipating the impact of an outage at a particular locatio

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a senior software engineer 
• Skilled in designing ETL pipelines with near-real-time orchestration, in Python.
• Strong background building and maintaining scalable web-applications with React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL
• Experience with XP practices such as TDD or trunk based development. The team would be new to these practices
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to various audience

Nice To Have

• Experience with the Geospatial ecosystem such as PostGIS, Geopandas or Deck.GL
• Experience with Dagster, Airflow or similar orchestration frameworks
• Experience with building web-applications tailored for repeatable human or agentic workflows
• Experience working in B2B, in particular with electrical utilities

Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

What We Offer

• Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits 
• Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
• Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets 
• A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

Role & Team

As a Staff Engineer, you will work across multiple teams to evolve a suite of web and internal tools that enable utility companies to more effectively manage risks associated with climate change and wildfires.

We are seeking improvement in the following areas:

• Performance & Scalability: ensure that our product can handle 3x YoY growth 
• Accelerate time to value of new product capabilities
• Reduce the amount of manual work required to ingest vegetation analysis into our customer facing tools

At Overstory, our Staff Engineers are hands-on technical leaders whose influence extends beyond their team either through leading cross team initiatives, making technology choices for critical aspects of our technology platform or solving for critical technical challenges within teams enabling our business to achieve our rapid scaling plans (growing 3x YoY). 

This role will start off being primarily team scoped solving critical scaling challenges. There is scope to expand remit as we grow.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET, EET) and Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST)

What You'll Do

Technical Skills:

• Broad and deep understanding of system design with an ability to select the correct paradigm/technology given the situation and constraints.  
• Develops a deep understanding of our business domains and how technology can be applied to drive business impact. 
• Innovates and introduces new technologies or methodologies.
• Resolves complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

Ownership:

• Leads cross-team initiatives or leads on architectural system design at team level
• Drives pragmatic technology choices/decisions making sensible trade offs in order to  balance current and future business needs.
• Defines coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Evaluates and recommends new tools and technologies.
• Hands-on contribution 

Leadership:

• Mentors and coaches engineers.
• Influences technical decisions at the organizational level.
• Collaborates with product managers and CTO to inform how technology can influence or enable the product strategy.

Skills & Experience

• Experience of working in a high growth scaleup environment 
• Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of technology
• Proven experience of full stack development across the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres DB, Data pipelines)
• Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar
• Ability to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends

Nice To Have

• Demonstrated experience scaling large distributed architectures
• Experience working in a remote-first environment
• Experience working with satellite data and/or imagery

Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

What We Offer

• Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits 
• Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
• Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets 
• A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

Why Engineering at Dataiku?

Dataiku’s on-premise, cloud, or SaaS-deployed platform connects many data science technologies, and our technology stack reflects our commitment to quality and innovation. We integrate the best of data and AI tech, selecting tools that truly enhance our product. From the latest LLMs to our dedication to open source communities, you'll work with a dynamic range of technologies and contribute to the collective knowledge of global tech innovators. You can find out even more about working in Engineering at Dataiku by taking a look here.

In Business Solutions, we are building apps that leverage Dataiku’s capabilities in data and AI, focused on key enterprise use cases that need their own, user-focused UI’s and flows. We do this for customers in verticals such as Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Finance, powering key processes within their business- and operating models. In short: our work truly is part of “everyday AI”!

How you’ll make an impact

• Build Innovative AI-Driven Applications: Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications that solve complex business problems, integrating Dataiku’s backend AI capabilities with user-centric, intuitive front-end interfaces.
• Work with Data Scientists and Industry Specialists: Collaborate with solutions engineers, data scientists, and industry experts to develop the best solutions for customers. Help define requirements and deliver state-of-the-art applications that meet user needs across different verticals such as finance, manufacturing, and life sciences.
• Empower Business Users: Create applications that allow expert users to work with large datasets and extract meaningful insights quickly and intuitively. Your goal is to bring complex data to life in the browser and simplify interactions with large-scale data sets.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of applications—from PoC to production. Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the tech stack and frameworks, and support new features and architecture improvements to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with core teams to ensure high-quality, reusable components, provide best practices, and help make data scientists and business users autonomous in building solutions end-to-end.
• Contribute to Team Growth: Help mentor new team members, participate in interviews, and contribute to onboarding processes. Bring your expertise and enthusiasm to help grow a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative team culture.

What you’ll need to be successful 

• Full-Stack Development Experience: You have experience in full-stack software engineering, with experience taking an app from PoC to production. You are comfortable working across the stack—from the front-end user interface to the back-end infrastructure.
• Front-End Skills: Proficiency in modern reactive front-end frameworks like Vue.js (preferred), React, or Angular. You have a deep understanding of building user-centric, interactive web applications.
• Back-End Skills: Strong experience with backend development, especially with Python (FastAPI, Flask, etc.). You are familiar with RESTful API design and willing to adapt to Dataiku’s tech stack and best practices.
• Experience with Data-Intensive Applications: You understand the challenges of working with large datasets and designing high-performance, data-driven applications. Experience with analytics products or data platforms is a strong plus.
• Customer-Oriented Mindset: You have a strong focus on solving real-world problems for customers. You understand that building an effective product means diving deep into customer use cases, iterating based on feedback, and delivering the most relevant and efficient solutions.
• Curiosity: You are excited to learn, adapt, and take on new challenges. Whether it's discussing architecture, troubleshooting issues, or writing code, you are driven to make an impact and contribute to the team’s success.
• Tech Enthusiast: You’re genuinely passionate about AI and data-driven applications. You’re excited by the possibility of using cutting-edge AI technologies, like LLMs, to shape the future of business.

What does the hiring process look like?

• 45 min call with a Technical Recruiter
• Technical video interview with an Engineering Team Lead
• Take home assignment or Live Coding session
• 2 last interviews with VPs of Engineering

Why Engineering at Dataiku?

Dataiku’s on-premise, cloud, or SaaS-deployed platform connects many data science technologies, and our technology stack reflects our commitment to quality and innovation. We integrate the best of data and AI tech, selecting tools that truly enhance our product. From the latest LLMs to our dedication to open source communities, you'll work with a dynamic range of technologies and contribute to the collective knowledge of global tech innovators. You can find out even more about working in Engineering at Dataiku by taking a look here.

In Business Solutions, we are building apps that leverage Dataiku’s capabilities in data and AI, focused on key enterprise use cases that need their own, user-focused UI’s and flows. We do this for customers in verticals such as Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Finance, powering key processes within their business- and operating models. In short: our work truly is part of “everyday AI”!

How you’ll make an impact

• Build Innovative AI-Driven Applications: Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered applications that solve complex business problems, integrating Dataiku’s backend AI capabilities with user-centric, intuitive front-end interfaces.
• Work with Data Scientists and Industry Specialists: Collaborate with solutions engineers, data scientists, and industry experts to develop the best solutions for customers. Help define requirements and deliver state-of-the-art applications that meet user needs across different verticals such as finance, manufacturing, and life sciences.
• Empower Business Users: Create applications that allow expert users to work with large datasets and extract meaningful insights quickly and intuitively. Your goal is to bring complex data to life in the browser and simplify interactions with large-scale data sets.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Take responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle of applications—from PoC to production. Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of the tech stack and frameworks, and support new features and architecture improvements to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with core teams to ensure high-quality, reusable components, provide best practices, and help make data scientists and business users autonomous in building solutions end-to-end.
• Contribute to Team Growth: Help mentor new team members, participate in interviews, and contribute to onboarding processes. Bring your expertise and enthusiasm to help grow a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative team culture.

What you’ll need to be successful 

• Full-Stack Development Experience: You have experience in full-stack software engineering, with experience taking an app from PoC to production. You are comfortable working across the stack—from the front-end user interface to the back-end infrastructure.
• Front-End Skills: Proficiency in modern reactive front-end frameworks like Vue.js (preferred), React, or Angular. You have a deep understanding of building user-centric, interactive web applications.
• Back-End Skills: Strong experience with backend development, especially with Python (FastAPI, Flask, etc.). You are familiar with RESTful API design and willing to adapt to Dataiku’s tech stack and best practices.
• Experience with Data-Intensive Applications: You understand the challenges of working with large datasets and designing high-performance, data-driven applications. Experience with analytics products or data platforms is a strong plus.
• Customer-Oriented Mindset: You have a strong focus on solving real-world problems for customers. You understand that building an effective product means diving deep into customer use cases, iterating based on feedback, and delivering the most relevant and efficient solutions.
• Curiosity: You are excited to learn, adapt, and take on new challenges. Whether it's discussing architecture, troubleshooting issues, or writing code, you are driven to make an impact and contribute to the team’s success.
• Tech Enthusiast: You’re genuinely passionate about AI and data-driven applications. You’re excited by the possibility of using cutting-edge AI technologies, like LLMs, to shape the future of business.

What does the hiring process look like?

• 45 min call with a Technical Recruiter
• Technical video interview with an Engineering Team Lead
• Take home assignment or Live Coding session
• 2 last interviews with VPs of Engineering #LI-Remote

Who we are:

At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer’s needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.   

Our values:

• Listen first • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand. 
• Learn why • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients. 
• Love your craft • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems.  We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.

At Focused, our Engineers are both practitioners and experts in their craft. This role would play a crucial role in shaping and implementing engineering best practices and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects. With clients, we develop trust and influence - we are unintimidated and unintimidating. With colleagues, we set the standard for how we deliver success for clients.

What would you be doing?

• Writing lots of code
• Lead teams through end-to-end delivery across the stack, from backend services to modern web UIs.
• Pair program daily with teammates and clients to share knowledge, improve code quality, and grow together.
• Practice TDD and continuous refactoring to ensure code is reliable, maintainable, and understandable.
• Guide architecture decisions to support scalability, observability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to continuously deliver valuable software.
• Coach developers on the team through pairing, mentoring, and modeling healthy engineering culture.
• Influence technical direction beyond the team, working across client orgs and Focused’s internal practices to share lessons, shape approaches, and raise the collective bar.
• Stay curious through experimenting with new patterns in the GenAI space, share what works (and what doesn’t), and help evolve how we build AI-powered software.

We are excited about you, because you:

• You’re a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments.
• You believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams.
• You’ve worked across multiple languages or frameworks (e.g., Python, Node, Java, React, Next.js) and are pragmatic about tool selection.
• You’re actively leveraging AI workflows and stay focused on delivering value.
• You have experience navigating complex organizations, building bridges across functions, and helping teams adopt modern development practices.
• You’re as comfortable in the code as you are in a client meeting and can translate technical risks and wins into language anyone can understand.
• You love to share what you’re learning and make the team around you better.
• You’ve worked with LangChain (or similar agentic frameworks), and understand how to architect AI-native systems responsibly and effectively.

If you had worked at Focused over the last 3 months you may have:

• Paired with a teammate to build a document Q&A system using LangChain and OpenAI APIs
• Helped design an architecture that integrates LLM agents into a legacy enterprise workflow
• Refactored a flaky test suite to support continuous delivery with confidence
• Built and deployed a full stack GenAI MVP with a React frontend and FastAPI backend
• Facilitated an architecture spike to evaluate vector database options for semantic search
• Contributed a new section to our internal AI playbook
• Helped write this job req

What Sets Exceptional Candidates Apart:

• Experience building AI-enabled applications leveraging LangChain and LLMs to deliver meaningful, production-ready outcomes for clients.
• Deep expertise in LangChain, LangGraph and LangSmith.

What to know before you apply: 

• You will be expected to work for up to four days a week in person, be it from our office in London or from client sites.
• The London base salary range for this role is £80,000 - £108,500 GBP.

Who we are:

At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer’s needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful.   

Our values:

• Listen first • We are experts in product practices but life long learners in the domain of our customers. We research, collaborate, and understand. 
• Learn why • We ask questions and talk to users to understand problem spaces, objectives, and goals, which allows us to deeply invest and drive towards the outcomes of our clients. 
• Love your craft • We love diving into a variety of domains and solving problems.  We take pride in delivering value, in communicating progress, and guiding our clients to success.

At Focused, our Engineers are both practitioners and experts in their craft. This role would play a crucial role in shaping and implementing engineering best practices and ensuring the successful delivery of complex software projects. With clients, we develop trust and influence - we are unintimidated and unintimidating. With colleagues, we set the standard for how we deliver success for clients.

What would you be doing?

• Writing lots of code
• Lead teams through end-to-end delivery across the stack, from backend services to modern web UIs.
• Pair program daily with teammates and clients to share knowledge, improve code quality, and grow together.
• Practice TDD and continuous refactoring to ensure code is reliable, maintainable, and understandable.
• Guide architecture decisions to support scalability, observability, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to continuously deliver valuable software.
• Coach developers on the team through pairing, mentoring, and modeling healthy engineering culture.
• Influence technical direction beyond the team, working across client orgs and Focused’s internal practices to share lessons, shape approaches, and raise the collective bar.
• Stay curious through experimenting with new patterns in the GenAI space, share what works (and what doesn’t), and help evolve how we build AI-powered software.

We are excited about you, because you:

• You’re a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments.
• You believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams.
• You’ve worked across multiple languages or frameworks (e.g., Python, Node, Java, React, Next.js) and are pragmatic about tool selection.
• You’re excited about what’s happening in the AI space but stay focused on delivering value.
• You have experience navigating complex organizations, building bridges across functions, and helping teams adopt modern development practices.
• You’re as comfortable in the code as you are in a client meeting and can translate technical risks and wins into language anyone can understand.
• You love to share what you’re learning and make the team around you better.
• You’ve worked with LangChain (or similar agentic frameworks), and understand how to architect AI-native systems responsibly and effectively.

If you had worked at Focused over the last 3 months you may have:

• Paired with a teammate to build a document Q&A system using LangChain and OpenAI APIs
• Helped design an architecture that integrates LLM agents into a legacy enterprise workflow
• Refactored a flaky test suite to support continuous delivery with confidence
• Built and deployed a full stack GenAI MVP with a React frontend and FastAPI backend
• Facilitated an architecture spike to evaluate vector database options for semantic search
• Contributed a new section to our internal AI playbook
• Helped write this job req

What Sets Exceptional Candidates Apart:

• Experience building AI-enabled applications leveraging LangChain and LLMs to deliver meaningful, production-ready outcomes for clients.
• Deep expertise in LangChain, LangGraph and LangSmith.

What to know before you apply: 

• You will be expected to work for up to four days a week in person, be it from our office in London or from client sites.
• The London base salary range for this role is £70,000 - £97,500 GBP.