IT & Software

Senior Software Engineer

Investcloud

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you design and build backend capabilities for a new, green-field platform serving private markets. You will shape architecture, coding standards, and engineering culture while delivering high-quality code and infrastructure on an AWS-based stack. You collaborate with principal engineers and cross-functional teams to own features end-to-end, from design through production operations. Your work will impact platform reliability, observability, and scalability as the team evolves.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement backend services (Go) on AWS with Postgres as core data store
  • Own end-to-end features from requirements to production support
  • Shape technical design within core services and mentor others via pairing and code reviews
  • Define target state architecture, service boundaries, data models, and integration patterns
  • Leverage AI tooling to accelerate discovery, prototyping, and implementation while upholding code quality and security
  • Collaborate with product, operations, and other engineering teams to integrate with upstream/downstream systems
  • Improve engineering practices: automated testing, code review, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response
  • Work in an evolving, early-stage environment to shape tooling, standards, and processes as the platform scales
Key requirements
  • Senior Software Engineer with production backend experience
  • Strong experience in at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, C#) and interest in Go
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, service design, and API design
  • Practical experience with relational databases, ideally Postgres: schema design, performance, migrations
  • Track record of owning problems end-to-end from stakeholder engagement to production delivery
  • Comfort with evaluating AI tooling in workflow while maintaining engineering judgement and quality
  • Pragmatic and delivery-focused
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and turn problems into clear technical plans
  • Willingness to learn private markets domain
  • Go (primary) and openness to other tools
  • AWS and Kubernetes
  • Postgres and data modeling

Reference: WJ-747_31168326

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