Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Powered DevTools & PaaS

Tempest Vane Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempest Vane Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a scalable internal developer platform in London, focusing on PaaS, infrastructure, runtime enablement and AI-enabled software development.

You will work on agentic AI workflows and highly scalable platform services used by engineers, researchers and investment teams to accelerate coding, testing and deployment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Excellent Go and Python development skills.
• Hands-on with agentic workflows or AI development tooling.
• Strong understanding of distributed and high-throughput systems.
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC services.
• Extensive Kubernetes and containerised environments knowledge.
• Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Proven ability to design solutions architecture and systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal platform services and developer tooling used across engineering and research.
• Develop agentic workflows and AI-enabled tooling to accelerate coding, testing and deployment.
• Build scalable and reliable distributed services supporting investment technology.
• Develop and automate CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Improve developer experience through self-service platforms and reusable frameworks.
• Contribute to firm’s SRE and DevOps practices, including observability and IaC.
• Work across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers and investment teams to translate technical requirements into production-ready platforms.
• Participate in production support and incident response.

Skills

Go

Python

Agentic AI tools

AI tooling/SDKs

Distributed systems

High-throughput

REST/gRPC

Kubernetes

Containers

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD

SRE/DevOps

Solutions architecture

Communication

Job description

Tempest Vane Partners is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build a scalable internal developer platform in London, focusing on PaaS, infrastructure, runtime enablement and AI-enabled software development.

You will work on agentic AI workflows and highly scalable platform services used by engineers, researchers and investment teams to accelerate coding, testing and deployment.