Software-ontwikkelaar in City of London

Software Development Engineer – Edge Platform Location: London Working Model: 5 days on-site Contract: 12 months – PAYE Working Hours: 40 hours per week ROLE OVERVIEW We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join a large-scale Edge Platform engineering team in London. You will work on mission-critical platform services supporting configuration management, push notifications, observability, intelligent traffic routing, automated failover and AI-enabled platform capabilities. This is a senior engineering role suited to someone who can independently own medium-complexity features, develop high-quality production code and contribute to the reliability and operational excellence of large-scale distributed systems. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Design, build and extend features for a remote MCP platform • Develop highly available backend and distributed services • Build production solutions using Java, Kotlin and TypeScript • Work with AWS services including EC2, NLB, ElastiCache, Lambda and DynamoDB • Develop and maintain infrastructure using AWS CDK • Support high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems • Work with DNS, and load-balancing technologies • Troubleshoot application, infrastructure and networking issues • Support intelligent traffic routing and automated failover • Maintain monitoring, dashboards, alarms and runbooks • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response • Support CI/CD and deployment automation • Conduct code reviews, testing, refactoring and performance optimisation • Independently own and deliver technical features with minimal guidance • Use Generative AI and coding agents effectively within engineering workflows KEY EXPERIENCE • Professional software development engineering experience • Strong Java, Kotlin and TypeScript skills • Experience building backend services or distributed systems • Hands-on AWS experience including EC2, NLB, ElastiCache, Lambda and DynamoDB • Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally AWS CDK • Strong understanding of DNS, and load balancing • Production software operations experience including monitoring, alarming and incident response • Strong Linux/UNIX and shell scripting skills DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE • High-throughput, low-latency systems • Concurrency, profiling and performance optimisation • CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation • DDoS protection, authentication protocols and TLS termination • Strong unit testing, code review and continuous deployment practices • Experience using Generative AI and coding agents to improve development productivity