Software Engineer (Platform)
Core
Building and maintaining the backend platform, infrastructure, and agentic tooling that enables product pods to ship scalable solutions for an AI-native in-store grocery experience.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
Builds
Backend microservices, cloud environments, automated release cycles, API/event-driven architecture, and internal agentic harnesses.
Domain
Retail technology / AI-native platform engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, API design and evolution, relational database schema design, real-time data stream processing, cloud infrastructure operations, shipping complex customer-facing products, AI-native engineering with frontier tools
Preferred skills
Polyglot full-stack experience, B2B or enterprise product background, product ownership mindset, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), retail or personalisation domain knowledge, startup experience
Technologies
PostgreSQL, AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Cursor, Claude Code
Responsibilities
Own product security (authentication/authorisation), develop automated release cycles, manage cloud environments for prototyping, gatekeep API and event-driven architecture quality, improve internal agentic harnesses, add agentic automation to the platform stack
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
