Software Engineer

G-Research; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London seeks a developer for its Workspace Engineering team. The role involves building cutting-edge remote development capabilities using Kubernetes and enhancing user experience. Candidates should have strong Linux and Kubernetes experience along with expertise in CI/CD practices. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered including healthcare, annual leave, and a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation

Lunch provided

30 days’ annual leave

9% company pension contributions

Comprehensive healthcare

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

Qualifications

• Strong desire to learn and grow.
• Experience working with Linux.
• Kubernetes administration in production environments.
• Automation through scripting.
• CI/CD tooling proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain user-friendly developer environments.
• Enhance end user experience.
• Implement continuous improvements to delivery pipelines.
• Design for security in developer environments.
• Gather feedback and support users.

Skills

Problem-solving

Linux expertise

Kubernetes administration

Scripting (Bash, Python)

CI/CD proficiency

Tools

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Do you want to tackle the biggest questions in finance with near infinite compute power at your fingertips?

G-Research is a leading quantitative research and technology firm, with offices in London and Dallas.

We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in a dynamic, flexible and highly stimulating culture where world-beating ideas are cultivated and rewarded.

This is a hybrid role based in our new Soho Place office – opened in 2023 - in the heart of Central London and home to our Research Lab.

The role

The Workspace Engineering team develops cutting-edge remote development capabilities. Hosted in Kubernetes, these solutions provide our engineers and quantitative researchers with reliable, repeatable and high-performance Linux environments.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic developer with a keen interest in technologies such as Kubernetes and remote development workflows, a commitment to best practices and a drive for continuous self-learning.

We’re seeking someone with a broad technical skill set, who is adaptable and excited to work across a range of engineering challenges. You should be comfortable applying modern tools and approaches to solve complex problems and eager to contribute to a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

• Building stable and well-designed solutions which make it easy for customers to use our developer environments

• Understanding what makes a great end user experience for our customers and building towards that

• Recommending and implementing continuous improvements to platform and delivery pipelines

• Understanding our platform's security requirements, and designing and building features and capabilities to protect our developer environment

• Being a product evangelist, liaising with users to gather feedback and understand their workflows, providing support and working on feature requests

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• A strong desire to learn and grow, and a track record of solving challenges in unfamiliar areas

• Extensive experience working with Linux

• Experience with Kubernetes administration in production-grade environments, including maintaining Kubernetes clusters and managing operators/CRDs

• A firm understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as containers/resources, RBAC and networking,

• Familiarity with automation through scripting, for example with Bash or Python

• Familiarity with development practices, such as source code management and binary/dependency management using tools such as Git, GitHub and Artifactory

• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling across the full development lifecycle, using tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or ArgoCD, and applying these to GitOps workflows and infrastructure-as-code environments

The ideal candidate would also have at least one of the following:

• In-depth experience with GO development, including designing, building, debugging and optimising GO applications
• Building or maintaining other remote development environments, such as Coder, GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod
• Building or maintaining Linux kernel drivers and components
• Use of telemetry tools and practices within a Kubernetes context, including monitoring, tracing and logging with systems such as Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafana
• Working knowledge of container runtimes, in particular CRI-O, and cloud native networking, in particular Cilium
• Familiarity working with and integrating virtualised desktop technologies, such as Citrix or VMWare
• Experience communicating strategy and socialising change to a wide and disparate audience

Why should you apply?

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and dedicated barista bar
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Monthly company events