London Center for Development
Senior Platform Engineer
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UMSxLMS
London / Remote (UK + EU)
Permanent
Senior Platform Engineer
Own a slice of the platform that runs forty-seven universities, and counting, from the data model through to the on-call rota.
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Posted
22.04.2026
Salary
£95,000 – £120,000 + share options
Hours
37.5 / week, with on-call rota
Reports to
Jean-Eudes Assogba (CTO)
Seniority
Senior
The role
You will join the team that builds and operates UMSxLMS, the administration spine and the learning platform a university actually runs on, sold as one product. You will work across the data model, the deployment pipeline, the per-tenant feature-flag system, and the observability that keeps a multi-tenant fleet boring. We hire senior because the work expects judgement over volume, and the same person who designs a feature is the one who carries the pager for it.
What you will own
A real piece of the company.
- Own a feature surface end-to-end: data model, API, public render, management surface, deployment, on-call.
- Contribute to the rolling-fleet deployment pipeline that lets us ship on a Friday afternoon without anyone losing a weekend.
- Take part in the on-call rota (UK + EU coverage, currently four engineers), with primary cover one week in four.
- Pair with the customer-engineering team on the migrations that are not boring yet.
- Mentor mid-level engineers, including across timezones; review and approve the changes that touch tenant boundaries.
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What you bring
The musts and the bonuses.
Required
- Five to ten years of professional engineering experience, the bulk of it on systems that other engineers depend on.
- Demonstrable comfort with TypeScript or another statically-typed language, you do not need to have shipped Astro, but you must be willing to ship in plain HTML when the work calls for it.
- Direct, recent experience operating a multi-tenant production system (universities, hospitals, regulated SaaS, anything where tenancy boundaries matter).
- A track record of preferring boring solutions, you can name a system you simplified, and what it cost you to get there.
- The right to work in the UK or an EU member state; a willingness to be in London at least one week per quarter.
Bonus, not required
- Higher-education-sector experience (SIS, SAML/eduGAIN, HESA, regulatory reporting).
- Open-source maintenance, especially of a tool other people relied on for production.
- A second language, French, Turkish, Arabic, German, or Russian particularly useful in the next two cycles.
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The hiring process
No surprises.
Five conversations. Two of them paid. Decision in five working days.
Step 1
Initial conversation
Jean-Eudes Assogba, 30 minutes, Huddle
Step 2
Technical conversation
A working session on a real (anonymised) production decision, 90 minutes
Step 3
Pair programming
Two hours, paid, on a small change to our deployment tool
Step 4
Founders' chat
A conversation with the four co-founders, 60 minutes
Step 5
Offer
Within five working days of the founders' chat
Compensation & Benefits
Published, not negotiable downward.
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- Salary band published above; reviewed every twelve months against role and market.
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- Share options on a four-year vest with a one-year cliff; full early-exercise allowance.
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- Thirty days of paid leave plus statutory bank holidays.
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- A workspace stipend if you work primarily from home.
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- A learning budget that covers conferences, courses, and the books you actually buy.
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- No on-call premium dressing, we pay for the rota in salary, not in unpredictable bonuses.
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