£600 - £700 per day
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Remote (Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, UK)
Location: Remote first (2-3 days on site in the North East during week one) Start: November 2026 Duration: 3 months initial, 5 days per week Rate: Around £650 per day depending on experience, Outside IR35 Sector: Financial services
About the opportunity
Crosstide is looking for a hands-on Principal Platform Engineer to join a financial services client building a new Automated Developer Platform on Google Cloud. The platform runs in its own GCP organisation alongside the client's existing estate, and the first teams to adopt it are building savings services in Go, using Kafka and databases.
You'll be one of three Crosstide engineers Embedded in the client's small platform team for phase one, a three-month push to strengthen the shared platform services and add observability, developer experience and disaster recovery. This is a hands-on build role, not a design-only one. The team has a strong bias for action, is happy to try things and throw code away,...