# Applications Development Engineer - Python Developer

Location: Bristol (20% onsite) Duration: 12 month contract Rate: £82.50ph UMB (Inside IR35) Role details: We are looking for an Applications Development Engineer with strong Python development expertise to support the design and delivery of high-performance software systems. This is a contract opportunity based in Bristol, with approximately 20% onsite working. Key Responsibilities: Design, build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput Python services and APIs Profile and tune application performance to meet near real-time requirements Diagnose and resolve complex issues across services, containers and Kubernetes workloads Contribute to architecture and design decisions, balancing performance, scalability and maintainability Containerise applications and manage deployments, configuration and resource tuning on Kubernetes Write unit and integration tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines Support root-cause analysis of production incidents across code, infrastructure and distributed systems Job Requirements: Deep experience in Python development, with a track record of producing clean, maintainable and production-grade code Strong performance tuning expertise, including profiling C

- **Id**: 4095981
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/matchtech-applications-development-engineer-python-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T21:05:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T21:05:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2416
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2073484
- **Name**: Matchtech
- **Domain**: matchtech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/matchtech-com>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 57
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 82
- **Max**: 82
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: day
- **Usd annual**: 27250

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Django** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **Cython** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Google GKE** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T21:05:53Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 60
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T23:22:39Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 27250
- **Is top pay**: no

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