Higher Education: Sr. Python Software Developer
HireEducation
—
Jul 13, 2026
—
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role at a consultancy focused on the higher education sector. The position involves owning complex backend systems from design through delivery — including API development, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing — while also interfacing directly with clients. It suits an experienced engineer with a Python background and at least six years working on web applications in higher education.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 33,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 19,800–49,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Location is not specified anywhere in the posting; the role appears to be remote-friendly given the consulting/distributed context, but this is inferred rather than stated explicitly.
FastAPI is listed as 'ideally' preferred within the Python requirement ('Production Python backend experience, ideally with FastAPI') — however, it sits inside the primary requirements block with firm language around Python, so Python is treated as a hard gate and FastAPI is included as a named preferred alternative within that gate. FastAPI is retained as a separate required skill given its explicit call-out, but the 'ideally' qualifier is noted here.
AWS is listed as preferred ('AWS preferred') within a broader cloud provider requirement; the cloud provider itself is a hard gate, with AWS as the preferred option and Azure/GCP as accepted alternatives.
PostgreSQL is listed as preferred ('PostgreSQL preferred') within a relational database requirement; the relational database experience is the hard gate, with PostgreSQL as the preferred flavor.
GraphQL is listed alongside REST as an 'and/or' option in the requirements block (a hard gate on API design experience), but also appears separately as a standalone preferred skill to reflect that it is optional relative to REST.
Client-facing or consulting experience and higher education domain experience (6+ years) are stated requirements but name no specific technology or tool, so they are captured in the overall years minimum and notes rather than as skills.
Daily use of AI tools appears at the end of the list without firm gating language and names no specific tool, so it is marked preferred.
No compensation, employment type, or specific work location is mentioned in the posting.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.