Backend Engineer (Python)
Petram Analytics · Earth observation
The API insurers actually call, and the job queue behind it.
Salary band
£60,000 – £76,000
- Location
- Cambridge
- Pattern
- Hybrid
- Posted
- 14 Aug 2026 (20d ago)
- Process
- 3 stages, listed below
No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.
The work
Customers ask about a postcode and expect an answer in under a second, over data that took eight hours to compute. The API is where that gap is hidden.
Worth knowing
- Small team. You would own the service end to end.
Must have
- Production Python APIs
- PostgreSQL
- Queue-based systems
Nice to have
- Geospatial queries, PostGIS
- Rate limiting and quotas
Interview process
If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.
- 01
Intro call
30 minTheir questions and yours. No competency framework.
- 02
Technical conversation
60 minWalk through something you built. No live coding.
- 03
Team and offer
45 minMeet the people you would work with, talk numbers.
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