Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

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

Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering | Developer Acceleration

London | Hedge Fund | Platform Engineering / AI

Tempest Vane Partners has partnered with a leading global investment firm to identify a Senior Software Engineer to join a highly technical Platform Engineering team in London.

The team is responsible for building the platforms and tooling that enable engineers, researchers and investment professionals to develop, test and deploy software at scale.

This is a particularly interesting opportunity for an engineer with a strong platform/software engineering background who wants to work at the intersection of developer productivity, distributed systems and AI.

The Role

You will play a key role in designing and developing the firm's internal developer platform, with a focus on PaaS, infrastructure, runtime enablement and AI-enabled software development.

The team is exploring how agentic technologies can transform the software development lifecycle, from generating code and running tests through to deployment and operational workflows.

You’ll be working on highly scalable platform services used across the organisation, whilst helping establish engineering standards and tooling that improve developer autonomy and productivity.

Key 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 highly scalable and reliable distributed services supporting critical investment technology.
• Develop and automate CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Improve developer experience through self-service platforms, automation and reusable frameworks.
• Contribute to the firm’s wider SRE and DevOps practices, including observability and infrastructure-as-code.
• Work across both 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.

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years' commercial software engineering experience, with a strong track record of delivering production systems.
• Excellent Go and Python development skills.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows, AI development tooling or relevant SDKs.
• Strong understanding of distributed and high-throughput systems.
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC services.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Proven ability to design and implement solutions architecture.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, DevOps and SRE principles.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to document complex technical concepts clearly.

Why This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join a highly technical engineering environment where platform engineering and AI are being applied directly to the investment technology ecosystem.

The role offers significant scope to influence how engineers and researchers build software, while working on challenging problems around distributed systems, developer acceleration, automation and agentic AI.