Backend Engineer
About this role
This role will focus on implementing APIs and backend systems for new features to the platform.
What this role will do:
• Build, enhance, and scale the core application using Django and Django REST Framework, while developing and maintaining microservices with FastAPI and Pydantic to support new features and APIs.
• Create robust, high-performance APIs to handle financial, climate, and ESG data, ensuring seamless integration with frontend systems and advanced economic models.
• Work closely with climate risk modeling team and other stakeholders in an agile environment to bring analytical approaches and features into production, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Apply technical standards, conduct code reviews, and incorporate new knowledge and innovations into the existing codebase to continuously improve system performance and reliability.
Skills required:
• Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, quantitative methods or related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining production-level code.
• Proficient in Python, with a focus on writing clean, efficient, and production-ready code.
• Experience building enterprise application using Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI and Pydantic.
• Hands-on experience working with relational databases, SQL and Django ORM.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures and distributed systems.
• Working knowledge of AWS Services such as EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, ElasticCache, SQS, AWS Batch and S3.
• Experience in containerisation (e.g. Docker), shell scripting, CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub actions.
• Good understanding of software engineering best practices throughout the development lifecycle, including Agile methodologies, coding standards, peer code reviews, version control, build processes, testing, and deployment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Commitment to create positive environmental value for our clients across sectors, helping them shape the future of their sustainability transition
About us
SLR are global leaders in Sustainability Solutions, helping our clients achieve their sustainability goals. We are a consultancy with 4500+ employees across 6 regions in over 125 countries. Our ‘one team’ culture is at the heart of our business, providing a collaborative and supportive environment for professional development.
Culture & Inclusion at SLR
We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, and our expectations go beyond purely complying with legislation. Through our Regional C&I Committees, Global Council and Employee Networks, we foster an inclusive environment where all people regardless of their background can thrive.
We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of their background, including those from groups that are currently under-represented at SLR, such as people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, Indigenous peoples, ethnic minority groups, women, and people with visible or invisible disabilities, including those who are neurodivergent.
Company at a glance
SLR is a committed partner in our clients’ sustainability journeys.
We help them move from influence to impact, turning intent into purposeful, practical action that delivers real-world results.
Guided by our philosophy of Rational Sustainability, we focus on what truly drives long-term value. By viewing decisions through the lenses of risk, reward, and resilience, we help clients act with confidence, balancing environmental and social responsibility with commercial and strategic success.
Our purpose - Making Sustainability Happen - means delivering outcomes that are grounded in evidence, shaped by experience, and built to last.
SLR has been advising clients for over 30 years at every point of their project life-cycle. Starting as a UK business, we now operate as a global company with more than 4,500 people delivering client solutions across six regions. We have grown both organically and through welcoming other like-minded businesses with a similar One Team culture into the SLR group. We are ably supported by our principal investor, Ares Management, and will continue to build a balanced, successful and growing business.
We’ve designed working life at SLR to look a little different. Because we know talented people often feel restricted by the rigid systems, lack of cross-functional collaboration and limited options for growth on offer elsewhere.
Our One Team culture promotes meaningful professional and personal growth, our flat management structure provides many opportunities to progress, and our collaborative approach means you’ll get the chance to work on projects you care about and make a real difference.
If you’re purpose-driven, self-motivated and keen to make an impact on a global scale, we want to hear from you.
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