Platform Software Engineer

Posted 15 Days Ago
London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Entry level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Financial Services
The Role
Build and operate platform services, APIs, workflows, and data models for storage infrastructure. Automate capacity, tenant, quota, access, and data lifecycle processes with safe, auditable, idempotent changes. Develop tests, observability, and stable service contracts while troubleshooting production systems, responding to incidents, and participating in on-call rotation. Collaborate with users and partner teams to convert operational challenges into reliable engineering solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.


From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution – because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we're building a world-class platform to amplify our teams' most powerful ideas.


As part of our engineering team, you’ll shape the platforms and tools that drive high-impact research - designing systems that scale, accelerate discovery and support innovation across the firm.


Take the next step in your career.


The role:

The Storage Engineering team builds and operates the storage products used across G-Research. As a Platform Software Engineer, you'll build the APIs, workflows and data models that turn manually operated infrastructure into self-service products.


The work includes capacity requests, tenant and quota automation, reporting and data lifecycle services. You'll make infrastructure changes safe, repeatable and auditable, while keeping observed state separate from intended change.

This is a software engineering role within an infrastructure team, working alongside colleagues responsible for security, research infrastructure and developer platform services. Storage experience is useful but not required. You'll operate the services you build and join the team's out-of-hours on-call rotation.


Key responsibilities of the role include:
  • Building and operating services and APIs in Python, Go and TypeScript
  • Automating capacity, tenant, quota, access and data lifecycle workflows
  • Building self-service requests with explicit policy checks and exception paths
  • Modelling infrastructure state and making changes idempotent, attributable and auditable
  • Defining stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services
  • Building tests, fixtures and observability that make failures safe to diagnose
  • Working with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work
  • Participating in incident response and the out-of-hours on-call rotation

Who are we looking for?
  • The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
  • Strong Python, with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering skills
  • Experience designing, testing and operating APIs and backend services
  • Strong use of coding agents in day-to-day delivery, with clear task boundaries, careful review and tests controlling the output.
  • Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows or reconciliation systems
  • Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency and eventual consistency
  • Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability and safe deployment practices
  • A practical approach to security, permissions, audit and change control
  • A calm, methodical approach to incidents
  • Desirable experience includes orchestration, configuration management, enterprise identity and data lifecycle tooling. Storage experience is useful but not required; strong platform software engineering skills and adaptability are more important. We expect every colleague to actively bring AI into their daily workflow to deliver impact.

Why join us?
  • Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
  • Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
  • 30 days' annual leave
  • 9% company pension contributions
  • Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
  • Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Monthly company events

Relocation Support
  • If you're relocating from within the UK or internationally to join us in London, we offer a comprehensive range of support services to assist you all the way. All costs associated with your relocation and immigration are covered by G-Research.
  • Concierge service: Your personal consultant will arrange travel, help find your new home and manage your move. They're also on hand to help with more bespoke requests too.
  • Immigration support: We'll partner you with an expert consultant who will guide you through the full immigration process.

G-Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas-driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section

Skills Required

  • Strong Python software engineering skills
  • Practical Go software engineering skills
  • Practical TypeScript software engineering skills
  • Experience designing, testing, and operating APIs and backend services
  • Experience building infrastructure automation, workflows, or reconciliation systems
  • Understanding of retries, partial failure, concurrency, idempotency, and eventual consistency
  • Strong Linux and production troubleshooting skills
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability, and safe deployment practices
  • Practical approach to security, permissions, audit, and change control
  • Calm, methodical approach to incidents
  • Experience with orchestration, configuration management, enterprise identity, or data lifecycle tooling
  • Storage experience
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The Company
HQ: London
1,039 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

G-Research is a leading quantitative research and technology firm, with offices in London and Dallas. We hire the brightest minds in the world to tackle some of the biggest questions in finance. We pair this expertise with machine learning, big data, and some of the most advanced technology available to predict movements in financial markets. We take pride in our dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating culture where world-beating ideas are prized and rewarded. We employ some of the best people in their field and are keen to nurture their talent in a supportive working environment.

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