Senior Forward-Deployed AI Platform Engineer

IFS; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform. You will embed with product teams and customer organisations to understand real problems, design durable AI-enabled solutions, and own outcomes.

This high-agency senior role focuses on developer velocity, platform adoption, and building patterns and tooling that scale across teams. You will lead discovery, design event-driven architectures, and partner with NGA and Architecture teams to drive the Internal Developer Platform, shaping what gets

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience across backend and frontend.
• Backend: Go; Frontend: React with Next.js.
• Experience with Kafka/RedPanda messaging and PostgreSQL data stores.
• Strong cloud-native skills: Kubernetes, containers, GitOps, IaC.
• Proven ability to ship production AI-enabled platforms and work with platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with product teams and customer engineering organisations to maximise developer velocity.
• Lead technical discovery and identify real bottlenecks, not just symptoms.
• Design and build production-grade solutions on the IFS Cloud platform (workflows, integrations, event-driven patterns, data pipelines).
• Build tooling and reference implementations to accelerate adoption of Kairos and Nexus.

Skills

Go

React

Next.js

Kafka

RedPanda

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Kairos

Nexus

Job description

IFS is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform. You will embed with product teams and customer organisations to understand real problems, design durable AI-enabled solutions, and own outcomes.

This high-agency senior role focuses on developer velocity, platform adoption, and building patterns and tooling that scale across teams. You will lead discovery, design event-driven architectures, and partner with NGA and Architecture teams to drive the Internal Developer Platform, shaping what gets