Platform Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 8 May 2026
LOCATION
Remote
TYPE
Contract
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

AI tools (Claude, Cursor) Full-stack development RESTful APIs Middleware Data migration Schema normalization Serverless architecture React

FULL DESCRIPTION

Platform Engineer

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Platform Engineer on a contract basis. This is a remote position open to candidates in the United Kingdom, Spain, and other listed countries.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a full-service back-office solution for companies and entities with bookkeeping, payroll, and bespoke reporting needs. Founded in 2023, our team of more than 100 professionals supports clients across diverse industries.

The Role

We are hiring a Platform Engineer on a contract basis to join the team building [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s internal platform. You'll work alongside operators, leadership, and other engineers to ship back-end systems, dashboards, and automations.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain back-end services for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s internal applications
  • Develop dashboards and operational tools for leadership, controllers, and the broader team
  • Ensure performance and reliability across large datasets
  • Build middleware and API integrations between internal systems
  • Replace manual workarounds with automated, event-driven data flows
  • Engineer event-triggered automations
  • Build migration and sync logic for data normalization and schema mapping
  • Build custom authentication and authorization layers for internal tools

Required Skills

  • Fluent using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, similar) as a core part of your workflow
  • Strong full-stack background with emphasis on backend and infrastructure
  • Deep experience with RESTful APIs and custom middleware development
  • Track record handling dirty data migrations and schema normalization
  • Comfortable with serverless and modern cloud architecture
  • Frontend competence (React/HTML/JS/CSS) sufficient to ship full features when needed

System Ecosystem (Fluency Expected)

  • Practice management and workflow tools (Notion, internal task systems)
  • HRIS and identity platforms (Rippling and similar)
  • Database and serverless platforms (Supabase, Postgres, similar)

The Engineer Profile

  • Operational empathy: translate business processes into automation logic
  • Ambiguity tolerance: comfortable with evolving specs
  • Lean middleware mindset: build the right-sized pipe

Why [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

  • Real engineering problems with real business impact
  • Direct collaboration with operators and founders
  • AI tooling encouraged

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Locations: Colombia, Argentina, South Africa, Chile, Paraguay, United Kingdom, Remote (Spain), Ukraine, Germany, Poland

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