# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company**: IT Infrastructure
**Location**: London, London, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Platforms Engineer to join a highly specialized team of exceptionally talented yet refreshingly humble individuals from diverse disciplines. Our mission is to solve real business challenges, reduce operational complexities, and foster a collaborative, team-driven environment that promotes mutual growth and success.

This is a hands-on software engineering role where you'll be writing production-quality code (primarily in Python, with some C++) and partnering directly with quants to translate complex ideas into robust, performant software.

Responsibilities:

- Design, code and implement proprietary systems and tools to help bring research ideas to life, and have a real business impact

- Collaborate daily with quantitative researchers to understand their needs and turn them into well-engineered solutions

- Contribute across the stack, primarily in Python with some work in C++

- Work through complex algorithmic and data-structure problems where correctness and performance both matter

- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and promote engineering best practices

- Communicate trade-offs and technical decisions clearly with both engineers and quants

Ideal Candidate:

- A strong software engineer who cares deeply about code quality, correctness, and clear thinking

- Someone who enjoys working alongside domain experts and can hold their own in technical discussions on both sides

- Driven by curiosity, always ready to learn new things and dig into unfamiliar problems

- A collaborative team player with excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Required Skills / Experience:

- Strong Python skills

- Strong foundation in data structures and algorithms

- Demonstrable problem solving abilities, insight, and judgment as well as a strong attention to detail

- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly with quants and other engineers

- Experience working in Linux environment, at an advanced user level

Preference / Nice to have:

- Some C++ experience

- Prior exposure to quantitative finance, scientific computing, or any environment where engineers work closely with researchers

- Experience contributing to performance-sensitive or numerically oriented code

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- data structures
- algorithms
- problem solving
- Linux

### Nice to have
- C++
- quantitative finance
- scientific computing

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