Core Platform Developer

Jain Global LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jain Global LLC in London is seeking a Core Platform Developer to design and build shared backend services, frameworks, and tooling that improve how internal teams develop, deploy, and operate software. The role emphasizes platform engineering, API standards, and observability across services.

The ideal candidate has extensive backend experience, strong Python skills, and familiarity with FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD in cloud contexts.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience focusing on backend systems and platform tooling.
• Expertise in Python and building production‑quality services and tooling.
• Strong understanding of service architecture, API design, authentication/authorization, logging and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and build shared backend services, frameworks, and developer tooling for internal teams.
• Develop platform capabilities such as service templates, API standards, and observability integrations.
• Improve developer experience with tooling, automation, and onboarding patterns.
• Define and evolve standards for service architecture, deployment, and reliability.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Contribute to CI/CD and production support, with AI-assisted developer workflows where applicable.

Skills

Python

Backend systems

Platform engineering

Tools

FastAPI

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

## Core Platform DeveloperApply: London, United Kingdom: Full time: Posted 11 Days Ago: JR100464## Job Description:**Role Overview**We are seeking a Core Platform Developer to help design and build shared engineering foundations used across the firm. This role is focused on backend and platform capabilities that improve how internal teams build, integrate, deploy, and operate software.The ideal candidate is a strong software engineer with platform instincts: someone who can build reusable services, frameworks, and tooling that improve developer productivity, standardize common patterns, and increase the reliability of internal systems. This person should be comfortable working across multiple areas of the stack, from service frameworks and API enablement to observability, governance, and developer workflows. This is a high-ownership role within a global, fast-moving engineering environment.**Key Responsibilities*** Design and build shared backend services, frameworks, and developer tooling that support internal application and service development.* Develop common platform capabilities such as service templates, authentication and authorization patterns, API standards, observability integrations, error handling, and shared runtime utilities.* Improve the developer experience through better tooling, automation, documentation, onboarding patterns, and paved-road workflows for engineering teams.* Help define and evolve standards for service architecture, API design, deployment, monitoring, and operational support.* Build reusable libraries and platform components that reduce duplication and promote consistency across teams.* Partner with application developers, infrastructure engineers, security teams, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver practical, scalable solutions.* Contribute to adjacent platform needs as priorities evolve, including internal tooling, service governance, and reliability-focused capabilities.* Support adoption of shared platform capabilities by reviewing designs, guiding implementation, and helping teams integrate with standard approaches.* Contribute to CI/CD, debugging, production support, and ongoing operational improvement of shared systems.* Explore and integrate AI-assisted developer workflows where they can meaningfully improve engineering productivity and quality.**Qualifications*** 6+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend systems, platform engineering, or internal developer tooling.* Strong programming skills in Python, with the ability to design and build production-quality services and tooling.* Experience building and maintaining backend services, APIs, and shared engineering components in complex environments.* Solid understanding of service architecture, API design, authentication and authorization, logging, monitoring, and error handling.* Hands-on experience with backend frameworks such as FastAPI, Node.js, or similar technologies.* Familiarity with cloud-native development, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.* Experience designing systems for reliability, maintainability, and scale across multiple consuming teams.* Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams with different needs and levels of maturity.**Preferred Experience*** Experience building or supporting shared engineering platforms, internal developer tooling, service frameworks, or common backend infrastructure.* Familiarity with developer enablement patterns such as service templates, internal portals, reusable libraries, or governance workflows.* Experience improving observability, production support, and operational standards across multiple services or teams.* Exposure to AI/LLM-enabled developer workflows, internal copilots, or automation tooling.* Experience in financial systems, regulated environments, or other high-reliability domains is a plus.**Compensation**Jain Global offers a total compensation package which includes a base salary, discretionary bonus, and comprehensive benefits. The estimated base salary range for this position is £170,000- £190,000, which is specific to London and may change in the future. When finalizing an offer, we take into consideration an individual’s experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.**We are an Equal Opportunity Employer**As an employer, we believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of Jain Global teams to drive competitive performance. We believe an inclusive environment can yield exceptional contributions.