Contract:
Initial 6 Months
Location:
London (Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite Minimum)
Start Date:
ASAP
Engagement:
Full-Time Contract
We’re working with a highly regarded enterprise software business seeking a
Senior Platform Engineer
to support a major phase of product and platform delivery.
This is a hands‑on contract role for a senior engineer who can quickly integrate into an established engineering function and contribute from day one across backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform architecture and AI/ML‑enabled product initiatives.
You’ll work closely with engineering leadership and cross‑functional teams to help deliver critical roadmap objectives, contributing directly to the design, build, deployment and optimisation of production systems used by enterprise customers.
The OpportunityThis engagement combines
backend engineering, platform infrastructure, cloud architecture and enterprise integrations , with opportunities to support
AI/ML feature development, data analysis and visualisation
depending on project needs.
We’re looking for someone who combines strong technical depth with excellent product judgement — someone who understands when to invest in long‑term engineering foundations and when speed of execution matters most.
This is a highly collaborative environment where engineering, product and delivery work closely together to solve complex business challenges.
Responsibilities
Design, build, test, deploy and optimise production‑grade digital systems
Contribute to backend services, APIs and platform architecture
Work closely with engineering leads to deliver against key product milestones
Deploy and operate distributed systems across multi‑cloud environments
Build enterprise‑grade integrations with third‑party APIs and SDKs
Implement authentication, authorisation and provisioning workflows
Design secure access control, policy enforcement and audit capabilities
Support AI/ML feature development, data workflows and visualisation where required
Improve system scalability, reliability, observability and performance
Required ExperienceWe’re looking for a senior engineer with strong platform and backend expertise who can become productive quickly in complex technical environments.
Core Skills
5+ years building and shipping production software
Strong full‑stack engineering background in high‑scale environments
Strong frontend capabilities with
React, TypeScript and Next.js
Ability to adapt quickly to new tools, systems and technical challenges
Strong systems design skills across resilience, scalability, performance and security
Strong engineering judgement and pragmatic decision‑making
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Experience with automated testing and engineering best practices
Strong experience in modern cloud and platform engineering, including several of the following:
Multi‑cloud deployments across
GCP, AWS and Azure
Kubernetes
and container orchestration
Infrastructure‑as‑code using
Terraform
Private networking and cloud security architecture
Secrets management and encryption key management
CI/CD pipelines using
GitHub Actions
Observability using
OpenTelemetry (OTEL)
and
Grafana
Workflow orchestration using
Temporal
Highly DesirableExperience with BYOC SaaS deployments and strong Azure/cloud infrastructure knowledge
Enterprise IntegrationsExperience with APIs, SDKs and enterprise identity tools such as OAuth2, SAML, OIDC and SCIM
Security & GovernanceStrong understanding of access controls, audit logging and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 / ISO 27001
AI / MLExperience building AI‑enabled products using Python, ML/NLP workflows, modern databases and frontier models such as Claude, OpenAI or Gemini
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