G-Re

Platform Software Engineer

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15 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate services and APIs in Python, Go, and TypeScript.
  • Automate capacity, tenant, quota, access, and data lifecycle workflows.
  • Build self-service requests with policy checks and exception paths.
  • Model infrastructure state and make changes idempotent, attributable, and auditable.
  • Define stable contracts between storage platform and developer platform services.
  • Build tests, fixtures, and observability to make failures safe to diagnose.
  • Work with users and partner teams to turn operational problems into bounded engineering work.
  • Participate in incident response and the out-of-hours on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills with practical Go and TypeScript software engineering experience.
  • Experience designing, testing, and operating APIs and backend services.
  • Experience using coding agents with clear task boundaries, careful review, and tests controlling 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.
  • Practical understanding of security, permissions, audit, and change control.
  • Desirable experience with orchestration, configuration management, enterprise identity, or data lifecycle tooling.
  • Storage experience is useful but not required; strong platform software engineering skills and adaptability are more important.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation plus an annual discretionary bonus.
  • Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business and a dedicated barista bar.
  • 30 days of annual leave.
  • 9% company pension contributions.
  • Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme and monthly company events.
  • Informal dress code and work/life balance support.
  • Relocation support for candidates moving to London from within the UK or internationally, including covered relocation and immigration costs.
  • Concierge and expert immigration support throughout the relocation and immigration process.
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About G-Re

1,001-5,000 employees

G-Research is a London-based quantitative research and technology firm that develops models, data pipelines, and trading systems to forecast movements in global financial markets. It employs researchers and software engineers to build machine-learning-driven strategies and the infrastructure that supports systematic investing, spanning high-performance compute and secure networks. Privately held and founded in 2001, the company operates from its London headquarters and focuses on institutional, data-intensive finance.

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