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# Platform Software Engineer Python - Core Engineering

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, System Software, Api Design, Microservices
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/platform-software-engineer-python-core-engineering/57211578

## About the Role

* 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

## 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