Platform Software Engineer

G-Research; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Discretionary annual bonus

30 days leave

Pension with company contributions

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Lunch provided

Relocation support

Job summary

G-Research, headquartered in London, seeks a Platform Software Engineer to build and operate storage-related APIs and services. You will join an infrastructure-focused team, turning manual processes into self-service products while ensuring safe, auditable changes and strong reliability.

You’ll design scalable systems, contribute to incident response, and collaborate with security, research infra and developer platform teams to accelerate discovery.

Qualifications

• Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills.
• Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services.
• Strong use of coding agents in day-to-day delivery, with clear task boundaries, careful review and tests controlling the output.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript.
• Automating capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows.
• Building self-service requests with explicit policy checks and exception paths.
• Modelling infrastructure state and making changes idempotent, attributable and auditable.
• Defining stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services.
• Building tests, fixtures and observability that make failures safe to diagnose.
• Working with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work.
• Participating in incident response and the out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

API design

Backend services

CI/CD

Observability

Linux troubleshooting

Security

Incident response

Job description

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution – because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we're building a world-class platform to amplify our teams' most powerful ideas.

As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research - designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.

Take the next step in your career.

The role:

The Storage Engineering team builds and operates the storage products used across G-Research. As a Platform Software Engineer, you'll build the APIs, workflows and data models that turn manually operated infrastructure into self-service products.

The work includes capacity requests, tenant and quota automation, reporting and data lifecycle services. You'll make infrastructure changes safe, repeatable and auditable, while keeping observed state separate from intended change.

This is a software engineering role within an infrastructure team, working alongside colleagues responsible for security, research infrastructure and developer platform services. Storage experience is useful but not required. You'll operate the services you build and join the team's out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Building and operating services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript
• Automating capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows
• Building self-service requests with explicit policy checks and exception paths
• Modelling infrastructure state and making changes idempotent, attributable and auditable
• Defining stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services
• Building tests, fixtures and observability that make failures safe to diagnose
• Working with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work
• Participating in incident response and the out-of-hours on-call rotation

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills
• Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services
• Strong use of coding agents in day-to-day delivery, with clear task boundaries, careful review and tests controlling the output.
• Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows or reconciliation systems
• Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency and eventual consistency
• Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills
• Experience with CI/CD, observability and safe deployment practices
• A practical approach to security, permissions, audit and change control
• A calm, methodical approach to incidents

Desirable experience includes orchestration, configuration management, enterprise identity and data lifecycle tooling. Storage experience is useful but not required; strong platform software engineering skills and adaptability are more important. We expect every colleague to actively bring AI into their daily workflow to deliver impact.

Why join us?

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days' annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events

Relocation Support

If you're relocating from within the UK or internationally to join us in London, we offer a comprehensive range of support services to assist you all the way. All costs associated with your relocation and immigration are covered by G-Research.

• Concierge service: Your personal consultant will arrange travel, help find your new home and manage your move. They're also on hand to help with more bespoke requests too.
• Immigration support: We'll partner you with an expert consultant who will guide you through the full immigration process.

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