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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer, Platform - **Company:** Hover - **Location:** York, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £194,000.0 - £239,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Ansible, Ruby, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Digital Twin, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Build Tools, Machine Learning Operations, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** July 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5810687986 ## About the Role * 5-8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building infrastructure, platform, or distributed systems * Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in Go, Python, or Ruby * Experience building or working with systems on Kubernetes, beyond simply deploying applications * Experience working with containerized systems such as Docker * Experience building or using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform (or similar tools like Ansible or Chef) * Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, with willingness to learn or deepen expertise in GCP * A systems-oriented mindset; you think about reliability, observability, failure modes, and scalability when designing systems * Experience collaborating with engineers across teams to build platform capabilities or improve developer experience * Comfort working across multiple layers of the infrastructure stack and learning new tools and technologies as the platform evolves ## Description As more of the product runs on AI, this team's scope is widening and the work is getting harder. This isn't a DevOps or SRE role. Infrastructure here is a software engineering problem. We build systems and tooling that eliminate manual work, and we hold ourselves to the same engineering bar as any product team. This role is the senior technical partner to the Lead of Systems Engineering. You'll shape the architecture, push the team's standards, and own outcomes the business depends on. You'll help define and build the platform every other engineer at Hover relies on. That means setting technical direction on the systems that matter most, working closely with backend, frontend, ML, CV, data, and security teams to get things into production, and mentoring engineers as the team grows. Concretely: you'll standardize how services run, improve deployment workflows, build tooling, harden reliability and observability, and keep cost in check as ML and 3D workloads scale. The job is building systems, not operating them by hand. The output is engineers across Hover shipping faster. A few things that make it worth your attention: * The AI work is real, not aspirational. We self-host ML models we've built or fine-tuned, and our agent platform is in production today with real users. The architecture choices in this role (model serving, agent orchestration, context and memory management, eval infrastructure, GPU capacity) set the ceiling on how fast the rest of the company can move. * Research and product sit close together. Our R&D group includes researchers building the models and systems behind the 3D digital twin. Your infrastructure is what turns that work into something users actually use, and you'll be in the room when those early architectural decisions get made - not handed a spec after the fact. * The timing isn't incidental. Hover has product-market fit and the business is growing fast. 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