Senior Software Engineer

The role

A Senior Software Engineer will join the Platform team to build reliable software for an AI product. The role involves working on CI/CD, networking, data integration, and control systems.

What you will do

• Write reliable, well-tested software in Python and Terraform.
• Monitor, support and improve software running in production.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and help them develop their craft.
• Identify, articulate and drive architectural improvements.
• Bring strong software engineering practices to code developed across the wider engineering and ML teams.
• Contribute to improving the quality, maintainability and reliability of our systems.

Required qualifications

• Familiar with practices such as testing, pairing, mobbing and iterative software development.
• Pragmatic about engineering trade-offs.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.
• Able to improve existing systems, not just build new ones from scratch.
• Happy to take ownership of problems and follow them through into production.

Nice to have

• Control engineering, machine learning or MLOps.
• AWS IoT, Greengrass or Mender for managing device fleets.
• Working across multiple cloud environments, such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Managing CI/CD environments using GitHub Actions.
• Building production artefacts using tools such as Docker.
• Functional programming languages such as Haskell, F# or Elm.
• Building or working with more complex AI-enabled workflows beyond simple prompting.

Benefits

• Equity in the company: share options
• Flexible working
• 30 days of holiday (plus bank holidays)
• A generous pension scheme

Before you apply

• The process includes a remote pair programming session using Python and Terraform.
• The process includes a technical onsite in London involving a system design session.
• Reference checks will be conducted before a final offer.

About the company

Gigaton builds autonomous AI control and optimisation systems to cut carbon emissions from heavy industrial plants. The team consists of scientists, engineers, builders, and operators.