i2 Group, a Harris Computer company, is seeking a Platform Software Engineer on a full-time, permanent, remote basis with a monthly requirement of attending the i2 Group offices in Cambridge.
The Platform team solves one of the harder problems in software delivery: getting the same product to work correctly on a developer's laptop, a cloud cluster, a multi-node on-premise deployment, and a fully air-gapped system. None of those environments are ones we control once deployed, and loose intent produces different results on each of them. The job is deciding precisely what has to be true everywhere, and then building it.
Alongside customer-facing delivery, the team builds the internal platform capabilities that let our R&D teams self-serve infrastructure and software. It is our second priority and the area where our AI-first workflows have moved fastest.
We are a small team, working closely with Architects, UX Designers, and Product Managers. We are looking for engineers who can define, design, and build platform capabilities, rather than simply maintain them.
We are AI-first. The bottleneck has shifted from writing to thinking, the AI writes the code, you own the decisions that shape it. If you have worked this way before, you'll recognise the workflow immediately. If you haven't, it's a shift in how you think about your time. Your focus is on the decisions, not the code that expresses them.Deep expertise in a specific tool stack matters less than it once did. What counts is knowing what good looks like — enough domain awareness to write a meaningful spec, ask the right questions, and develop an instinct for where AI helps, where it misleads, and when not to trust it.
Whether you come from an AI-first background or a platform engineering background, you are welcome here. The AI-first developer brings rigour and reasoning; the platform engineer brings domain knowledge and an instinct for what good looks like. Either way, we'll help you get there.
The precision described above is not a separate activity from delivery — it is how we deliver. In practice the role covers:
The things we care most about are the ones that are hardest to teach: a spec-first way of working, design thinking, and the judgement to know when something that looks right is not.
Specifically:
The technical depth we look for sits alongside those traits, not above them. We want experience in platform or software engineering in a commercial environment — enough exposure to deployment and operational concerns to write meaningful specs and validate AI output against them:
These are the technologies you will be working with day to day:
i2 Group is the global leader in advanced visual analysis solutions. We empower analysts and investigators to discover, create, and disseminate actionable intelligence to combat threats including crime, terrorism, war, and fraud. Our software helps analysts transform data in real time, enabling customers to detect, disrupt, and defeat sophisticated threats across law enforcement, fraud and financial crime, military defence, and national security.
Our recruitment process comprises interviews and, at times, a written exercise, an assessment day, and/or a presentation. As an equal opportunities employer, we want to do all we can to make this a positive experience for you. If your application progresses, please make us aware of any adjustments or additional support we can provide.
Harris provides mission-critical software solutions for the Public Sector, Healthcare, Utilities, and Private Sector verticals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Harris is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation Software, Inc (CSI), a publicly-traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Trading symbol CSU.
