Software Engineer Mid 1

Platform Engineer

Developer Experience Team

London / Hybrid | Mid level

Help our engineers spend more time building great experiences for our restaurant teams and customers. As a mid-level Platform Engineer in our Developer Experience team, you’ll build the tools, automation and cloud foundations that make software easier to develop, deploy and run at Nando’s.

The role

You’ll own defined platform improvements from implementation through to release and ongoing support, with guidance from experienced colleagues when you need it. Working closely with engineering teams, you’ll turn everyday frustrations into practical, reusable solutions and help shape an internal platform that developers want to use.

What you will do

• Work with engineers to understand where development and deployment become difficult, and translate their feedback into useful platform improvements.
• Build and maintain infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform and other infrastructure as code practices.
• Develop automation, APIs and self-service tools that reduce manual work and make common engineering tasks simpler.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, templates and standardised deployment patterns so teams can release changes safely and consistently.
• Build monitoring and observability into platform services, investigate issues and contribute to improvements in reliability.
• Write maintainable, tested code and clear documentation; contribute to reviews and share what you learn with the team.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and operations colleagues, and use developer feedback to improve the platform over time.

What you will bring

• Hands-on experience in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure or a software engineering role with significant automation work.
• Confidence writing code or scripts for tooling, automation or APIs in a language such as Bash, JavaScript or Go. Your problem-solving approach matters more than a particular language.
• Practical experience provisioning and operating resources on GCP, with an understanding of monitoring, scaling and troubleshooting cloud services.
• Experience using Terraform or a similar infrastructure as code tool to make changes repeatable, reviewable and maintainable.
• Experience building, maintaining or integrating CI/CD pipelines, and an understanding of how they support reliable software delivery.
• An understanding of observability and monitoring, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• The ability to take ownership of a defined piece of work, communicate progress clearly and ask for support when it is needed.

Useful additional experience

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Cloud Run; security and secrets management, including tools such as Wiz; or internal developer platforms and self-service tooling. Exposure to measuring platform adoption and gathering user feedback would also be useful.

These are useful additions, rather than requirements for applying.

How you work

You’re curious about how other engineers work, listen carefully and enjoy making their jobs easier. You care about sustainable solutions, welcome feedback and want to build your technical confidence in a team that shares knowledge.

What you can expect

You’ll have the opportunity to grow your platform engineering skills through hands-on delivery, training and mentorship. Our hybrid approach combines focused work at home with time together in the office. You’ll have a voice in how the platform evolves, access to communities across Nando’s and work whose impact you can see in the experience of your engineering colleagues.

Our values

Pride We take pride in our work, our heritage and the communities we support.

Passion We bring energy, creativity and care to what we do.

Courage We try new things, learn from challenges and keep improving.

Integrity We do the right thing, even when it is difficult.

Family We celebrate our differences, support each other and succeed together.

Everybody Welcome

We want our teams to reflect the communities we serve and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and identities. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we’d still like to hear from you. Let us know if you need any adjustments during the application or interview process.