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Back-end Engineer (contract)

Opus Recruitment SolutionsLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 17 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Back-end Engineer (contract)
Opus have partnered with an cutting-edge AI focused HealthTech start-up with a mission-driven culture and ethical AI approach. The successful candidate will be making a real impact to patient care outcomes.
Contract Specifics:
Rate: 400 per day, Outside IR35
Duration: 3 months
Start date: ASAP, Immediate starter
Working Patterns: Full-time, 1 day p/w in London-offices.
Essential:
  • Confident working across data infrastructure, distributed systems, APIS and AI-services
  • Proven experience in building/designing scalable backend services
  • Strong experience building and maintaining APIs (REST, GraphQL and/or gRPC).
  • Knowledge of Docker and AWS (ideally in a recent project)
  • Essential - must have strong coding skills in Python, Typescript, Node and SQL.
Nice to have:
  • Docker, ECS, Kubernetes or similar container platform experience
  • Familiarity with Django frameworks and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
  • Experience with the deploying and operating ML or AI systems in production.

Please reach out to Adam Akhtar at Opus ASAP for more information.

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