Senior Platform Engineer - AI Chemistry & Data Platform

Chemify Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Chemify, located in Glasgow, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own crucial parts of the Unified Data Platform. You will be responsible for full-stack development, from interfaces used by chemists and operations staff to the services and data pipelines behind them.

You will join a cross-functional team spanning software, chemistry, operations, and programme management, with ownership of your area and opportunities to evolve as the platform grows.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial software engineering experience.
• Strong Python, with production experience in FastAPI, Django, Flask, or similar.
• PostgreSQL fluency, schema design, query optimisation, and ORM frameworks such as SQLAlchemy/SQLModel.
• Commercial experience with TypeScript and React, and a genuine interest in UI/UX.
• Experience building and maintaining data-intensive applications, comfortable on both app and data boundaries.
• Comfortable with containerised deployments (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, ArgoCD).
• Hands-on with AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Experience integrating with systems you don’t own, negotiating contracts, handling partial failure, and enabling teams to own their data.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of applications and services in your area: scoping, architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Design data models and workflows across AI chemistry, synthesis, and manufacturing.
• Build and maintain robust, observable pipelines for internal, client-specific, and literature data.
• Work with chemists and operations staff to understand real-world workflows beyond the spec.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure to ensure production-ready architectures and implementations.
• Define and champion engineering and data best practices: versioning, testing, documentation, governance, data contracts.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice across the team.
• Contribute to team-wide initiatives: code reviews, design discussions, ADRs, process improvements, planning.

Skills

Python

FastAPI/Django/Flask

PostgreSQL

TypeScript/React

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Kubernetes

Data pipelines

Data modelling

Education

CS degree or related field

Tools

SQLAlchemy/SQLModel

Job description

Chemify, located in Glasgow, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own crucial parts of the Unified Data Platform. You will be responsible for full-stack development, from interfaces used by chemists and operations staff to the services and data pipelines behind them.

You will join a cross-functional team spanning software, chemistry, operations, and programme management, with ownership of your area and opportunities to evolve as the platform grows.