Senior Software Engineer, Python

YouGov is a global online research company, offering insight into what the world thinks. We speak daily to our panel of over 24 million registered members to understand opinion and behaviours around the world. We have a strong reputation as a source of accurate data and we’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands to get it right, making us the most quoted market research source in the world. **About The Role** You will collaborate with product and design teams to build high\-value features, drive the evolution of our architecture and system, and ensure the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our services. You'll also be central to how YouGov builds with AI. We're embedding AI tools and thinking across engineering — not as a box\-ticking exercise, but to genuinely free up engineers to focus on work that matters most. You'll help spot where AI can automate or accelerate tasks, champion best practices, and bring people along on the journey to becoming an AI\-enabled organisation. **Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do:** * Work on impactful projects with high volumes of production traffic. * Produce simple, maintainable code while always looking to improve it. * Define testing strategies and write automated tests. * Own your code all the way to production with a self\-service continuous delivery pipeline and production infrastructure. * Run what you build using containers orchestration and monitoring technologies. * Perform code\-reviews promptly, regularly and constructively. * Use modern AI tools such as Claude Code to enhance engineering productivity (e.g., coding, testing, documentation). * Help identify opportunities where AI can streamline workflows or reduce manual effort. * Support a positive cultural shift toward responsible, effective AI adoption across engineering teams. * Stay curious about emerging AI technologies and bring relevant improvements into the team. **These are the essentials you’ll need for having an interview:** * Comfortable using AI tools to boost efficiency and support engineering tasks. * A proactive, curious mindset toward adopting new technologies responsibly and ethically. * Good understanding of modern testing principles. * You have at least 5 years of experience working with similar tech\-stack. * Significant experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines. * Very good verbal and written communication skills. * Experience with a highly distributed microservices architecture. * Advanced knowledge of Python and some of the main web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, Django, CherryPy). * Experience with MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL. **Nice\-to\-have skills:** * Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to end user. * Experience participating in mitigating technical debt. * Experience with Kubernetes and AWS technologies. * Ability to think abstractly and deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems. * 1\+ years working remotely in a global environment. **Tools \& Technology** * Collaboration \& documentation: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Miro * Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Vault, AWS, Grafana, ELK Stack, New Relic, GitLab. * Python (FastAPI, CherryPy, Flask), Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MongoDB **Here’s what we have to offer:** * A full\-time, 100% remote role. * Competitive salary and benefits package. * Flexible working hours (we are a global team of remote first developers operating in European, Indian and US/Canada time zones). * A good work\-life balance. Because we all work better when we are rested. * LinkedIn Learning courses. * 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday. **Why join YouGov?** Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities. Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do. **Life at YouGov** We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do. We strive to provide YouGovers with best\-in\-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work. **Equal Opportunity Employer** As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. 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