Senior Software Engineer - HPC/Scientific

Technical Futures Ltd; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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30 days holiday + Xmas/New Year break

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Life assurance

Job summary

Technical Futures Ltd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer / Backend Engineer for Coventry with a hybrid work pattern (3 days in the office, 2 days remote). You will design systems and APIs coordinating services, manage data and large-scale simulations, and work closely with engineers and scientists to shape the platform layer.

The role emphasizes modern Python and Rust, cloud/HPC experience, and strong focus on code quality. A generous salary and benefits package accompany this position.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software engineering or scientific software development.
• Experience designing systems and APIs between services.
• Proficiency in Python and Rust; modern tooling and packaging.

Responsibilities

• Design systems and APIs coordinating multiple services and workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists to shape platform layer architecture.
• Focus on code quality and scalable backend designs.
• Deploy containerized services on Linux and manage infrastructure as code.

Skills

Python

Rust

API design

Cloud computing

HPC

OAuth2/OIDC

Slurm

Podman

IaC

FastAPI

Education

Strong academic background in Software Engineering / CS / Physics / Scientific Software

Tools

Podman

Ansible

OpenTofu

Job description

Senior Software Engineer / Backend Engineer - Scientific / HPC - Coventry / Hybrid.

Exciting deeptech start-up seeks a bright, forward thinking Senior Software / Backend Engineer to join their dedicated team.

Applications are welcomed from Senior level up to Staff level Engineers with experience designing systems and the API between them; with experience of modern Python tooling and packaging, knowledge of Cloud computing or HPC job management (such as Slurm), identity and authorization flows (such as OAuth2/OIDC).

This cutting-edge technology company, focused on optimizing complex engineering systems, seeks a top class Software / Backend Engineer who will confidently work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to have a real say in how the platform layer is designed.

You should bring the following skills and experience:

• Strong academic background. Could be Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or Scientific Software related.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern languages (Python & Rust ideal).
• Experience designing systems and the APIs between them - services that coordinate work, manage state and handle failure.
• Focus on code quality.

Some / most of the following should support the skills above:

• Experience of Cloud computing or HPC job management (such as Slurm).
• Identity and authorization flows such as OIDC/OAuth2.
• Deploying containerized services on Linux (such as Podman).
• Infrastructure as code (such as Ansible, OpenTofu).
• Modern Python tooling and packaging such as uv.
• Data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving.
• API, REST, WebSockets such as FastAPI.

Hybrid working available (3 days office /2 WFH), a very generous base salary dependent on your level of skills and experience and benefits to include

• Shares
• 30 days holiday + time off between Xmas and New Year
• Private healthcare
• Pension Plan
• Life Assurance
• and much more