Platform Software Engineer
Anson McCade
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 150KJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Continuous Integration
Distributed Systems
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Job description
You will contribute to the design and development of internal engineering platforms, including:
- Building core Python-based platforms, frameworks, and shared services
- Designing developer platforms used by multiple engineering and quant teams
- Developing APIs, SDKs, tooling and service frameworks that enable large-scale system development
- Improving scalability, reliability, and performance of shared platform components
- Working on distributed systems and service architecture foundations
- Enhancing CI/CD, deployment tooling, and engineering productivity platforms
- Contributing to standards, patterns, and reusable infrastructure used across the organisation
- Partnering with quant and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities support advanced workloads
Requirements
- Strong professional experience in Python as a primary engineering language
- Background in platform engineering / core systems development
- Proven experience building internal platforms, frameworks, or shared engineering infrastructure
- Experience designing systems that are used by other developers
- Strong understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Service-oriented / microservice architectures
- APIs and SDK design
- System performance and scalability
- Experience working on large-scale, multi-team engineering environments