Senior Platform Engineer – Risk Services

Overview

In this role you will build and operate the services and infrastructure powering portfolio risk calculations. You’ll turn analytical models into production-grade APIs and cloud workflows, connecting data with calculation engines and downstream systems. You may lead technical work across the team while collaborating with quantitative developers to translate requirements into scalable software. This is a hands-on, production-focused opportunity to shape risk analytics infrastructure at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work model (2 days/week in London office)
• competitive base compensation + strong additional compensation

Responsibilities

• Build Python APIs and calculation services
• Develop cloud-based processing for scheduled batch and on-demand jobs
• Implement containers, orchestration and queues with robust retry and recovery
• Integrate SQL data sources and downstream systems with traceable inputs/outputs
• Build deployment pipelines, monitoring and security controls
• Support model versioning and auditable calculation runs
• Collaborate with quantitative developers to translate analytical requirements into software
• Guide architecture, code reviews and engineering standards

Key requirements

• Strong production Python and backend engineering experience
• API design, cloud services and containerised workloads
• Job orchestration, message queues and SQL integration
• CI/CD, monitoring, security and production troubleshooting
• Understanding of data flows in calculation-heavy applications
• Desirable: experience with portfolio analytics, risk systems or batch processing
• Hands-on technical leadership

• collaboration
• problem-solving
• technical leadership
• Python
• APIs
• cloud services

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