# Software Engineer (Platform)

About Us At algo1, we are reinventing one of the world’s most familiar experiences: the in-store grocery trip. We are building an AI-native product that understands each shopper, responds to their context in real time and makes an everyday experience less stressful, more personal and more engaging. We’re backed by leading investors and founded by two entrepreneurs: one with a track record of building companies, and the other a leader in retail data and shopper analytics. Together, they have brought together frontier AI researchers and engineers, product and strategy leaders, and senior operators from major UK and US grocery businesses. The people who join now will have an opportunity to shape the product, the engineering culture, and what algo1 becomes. The Role This role reports to our Head of Platform, Jack. Working with him and the platform engineering pod, you'll accelerate the development of algo1's platform, turning enterprise-grade platform expectations into software that our product pods and customers rely on. You'll work primarily in the backend and on the infrastructure that underpins it, but the shopper and retailer experience will never be far from your mind. Delivering

- **Id**: 762278
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/algo1-software-engineer-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-18T14:51:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:06:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 86
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5922
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, AI Agents, Retail & Commerce AI

## Company

- **Id**: 669743
- **Name**: algo1
- **Domain**: algo1.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/algo1>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 90000
- **Max usd**: 174000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 139

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 86

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T18:51:36Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.556
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 85
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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