Platform Engineer

Digital Waffle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle, a fast-growing PropTech business in London, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain scalable APIs using Python and FastAPI. You’ll own services end to end, collaborating with Product and Engineering to deliver high-impact features at pace and drive AI-assisted workflows to boost developer productivity.

You’ll join a high-growth team with a clear pathway into technical leadership and a culture focused on speed, ownership, and quality in a hybrid London setup.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience building production backend services with Python and FastAPI.
• Experience working within fast-growth startups or scale-ups, ideally through Series A or Series B growth.
• Track record of owning significant areas of a product and delivering features end to end.
• Experience working in high-performance engineering teams that value speed, ownership and quality.
• Active use of AI coding tools as part of day-to-day development workflow.
• Interest in progressing into a Lead Engineer role as the engineering team grows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable APIs using Python and FastAPI.
• Take ownership of services throughout their full lifecycle, from architecture through production support.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to deliver high-impact features at pace.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Champion engineering quality through testing, automation and modern software practices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions as the platform scales.
• Play a key role in shaping engineering culture and leadership pathways.

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

A fast-growing, VC-backed PropTech business is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to help build the technology powering its next phase of growth.

This isn't a SaaS role.

You'll be joining a business using AI to transform a traditional industry through acquisition, automation and modern software engineering. If you've built products within a high-growth scale-up and want to apply your experience somewhere with genuine commercial impact, this is an opportunity to step into a role with real ownership and a clear route into technical leadership.

Salary: Up to £100,000 + 10% bonus + equity

Location: London (Moorgate), hybrid working - 2 to 3 days per week onsite

What you\'ll be doing

• Design, develop and maintain scalable APIs using Python and FastAPI.
• Take ownership of services throughout their full lifecycle, from architecture through to production support.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver high-impact features at pace.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Champion engineering quality through testing, automation and modern software development practices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions as the platform continues to scale.
• Play a key role in shaping engineering culture, with a clear pathway into technical leadership.

What you\'ll need

• Strong commercial experience building production backend services with Python and FastAPI.
• Experience working within fast-growth startups or scale-ups, ideally through Series A or Series B growth.
• A track record of owning significant areas of a product and delivering features end to end.
• Experience working within high-performance engineering teams that value speed, ownership and quality.
• Actively use AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or similar as part of your day-to-day development workflow.
• Passion for improving engineering productivity through automation, tooling and agentic development practices.
• Strong understanding of API design, asynchronous Python and backend architecture.
• Experience working with SQL databases and modern data persistence layers.
• Ownership mindset with responsibility for testing, quality and production reliability.
• Interest in progressing into a Lead Engineer role as the engineering team continues to grow.

This role would suit a backend engineer from a fast-growth SaaS or technology scale-up who\'s looking to step into more technical leadership, embrace AI-native software development and help build a business with ambitions far beyond traditional SaaS.