Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong academic background in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Scientific Software, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern languages, ideally Python and Rust.
• Experience designing systems and the APIs between them, including services that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure.
• Focus on code quality.
• Experience with cloud computing or HPC job management, such as Slurm.
• Experience with identity and authorization flows such as OIDC or OAuth2.
• Experience deploying containerized services on Linux, such as Podman.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible or OpenTofu.
• Experience with modern Python tooling and packaging, such as uv.
• Experience with data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving.
• Experience with APIs, REST, WebSockets, or frameworks such as FastAPI.

Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to help design the platform layer.
• Design systems and the APIs between them.
• Build services that coordinate work, manage state, and handle failure.
• Contribute to the development of a cutting-edge platform for optimizing complex engineering systems.
• Apply strong software engineering practices with a focus on code quality.
• Support platform and backend engineering across cloud, HPC, identity, containerization, and data pipeline concerns.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Backend
• Cloud
• FastAPI
• Support
• Linux
• Podman
• Python
• REST
• Rust
• API

More:

We are an exciting deeptech start-up focused on optimizing complex engineering systems. We offer hybrid working with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home, along with a very generous base salary depending on skills and experience. Our benefits include shares, 30 days holiday plus time off between Christmas and New Year, private healthcare, a pension plan, life assurance, and much more. We are looking for a Senior Software / Backend Engineer at senior through staff level to join our dedicated team and help shape our platform layer.

last updated 30 week of 2026