Fully remote, UK-based £400 – £500 per day (Outside IR35)

3–6 Month Contract



Esenda powers over £1.5bn of inbound and outbound payments annually, in the education space - from tuition and catering fees to supplier payments and payroll. 



We’re a revenue-generating startup with strong product-market fit, and we’re growing fast. 

Design, build, and ship reliable backend services and APIs in Python (Flask) that power core product functionality. 

Own features end-to-end: data modelling (Postgres), API design, testing, production rollout and ongoing improvements.

Help uphold strong engineering standards through thoughtful code reviews, testing discipline, clean architecture, and pragmatic decision-making. 

Improve service reliability and operability: monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, and reducing on-call toil over time. 

CI/CD improvements, incremental shipping, and maintaining a high-quality codebase. 

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