Forward Deployed Platform Engineer (Azure Serverless)
Tech Start-Up - UK based – Remote – Full-time
We build a modern data & document platform with embedded analytics used by procurement teams. Azure-first, multi-tenant, and customer-obsessed. As our Forward Deployed Platform Engineer, you’ll own performance, reliability, and rapid customer-led enhancements cross our platform.
In terms of seniority, we’re looking for a professional with at least 5 years of experience in software or platform engineering. You should have real-world experience designing, deploying, and operating production systems — ideally with hands-on Azure experience (or other major cloud platform).
What you’ll do
* Performance: Optimise serverless workflows, APIs, and data pipelines for scale and speed.
* Reliability: Keep SLAs green by ensuring observability, monitoring, and proactive incident prevention.
* Enhancements: Ship thin, high-impact features in our embedded analytics (Next.js/React) and serverless APIs.
* Platform care: Improve CI/CD, testing, and release hygiene so changes land safely and often.
* Collaboration: Work closely with product and delivery teams to translate insights and feedback into technical outcomes.
Our stack (you don’t need all of it)
* Azure serverless: Functions (Python/Node), Durable/Logic Apps, Blob/Queue, Container Apps Jobs
* Datastores & analytics: Postgres on Azure, DuckDB, and data connectors into/out of our platform
* Frontend: Next.js + React powering embedded analytics experiences
What we’re looking for
* Hands-on Azure serverless experience and comfort running real production systems
* Python backend skills for building and extending serverless APIs
* Strong SQL skills (optimising queries, reading plans, using materialized views/indexes)
* Experience designing and integrating with data connectors/pipelines (file, API, or DB sources)
* Experience deploying LLM-based agents or ML-driven agents within cloud environments.
* Pragmatic React/Next.js skills to land small UI changes that deliver big user value
* Solid engineering practices: CI/CD, testing, observability, scalability, and security. Clear communication is key.
Nice to have
* DuckDB experience (or similar columnar/OLAP tools)
* Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep/Terraform), Azure security (Key Vault/MSI), and multi-tenant know-how
* Familiarity with data extraction or transformation pipelines.
* Domain curiosity around invoices, contracts, telecom/IT spend
Impact in your first 90 days
* Ship 1–2 measurable performance wins
* Stabilise workflows with better observability and back-pressure
* Lead a customer-led enhancement from brief to production
What We Offer:
· A competitive salary range of £50,000 to £55,000 per annum.
· Fully Remote working arrangements to support work-life balance.
· The opportunity to be part of a growing tech start-up with a vibrant culture.
· The chance to lead and shape the engineering landscape of a growing tech start-up's.
· A collaborative high-autonomy culture.
Who is Thinking Machine
We make it possible for companies to unlock massive untapped value from their invoices and contracts in the technology sector. Understanding the complexities of technology services, we offer a platform that extracts accurate data from any document format, links that data into a single source-of-record and provides actionable evidence to customers to action relevant business outcomes and cost-saving opportunities.
Founded in 2019 by our CEO Richard Martin, today we’ve processed over a billion dollars in spend across 26 countries and 13 languages. Intrigued? Apply today and join us on this exciting journey!
Follow our Company Page to learn more about us here👉: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinking-machine-systems/