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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Senior level
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services
The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend systems for payment processing, collaborating with teams, setting goals, and fostering quality and ownership in code development.
Top Skills: AWSKotlinKubernetesMySQLPython
Reposted 15 Days AgoSaved
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and build scalable Java applications on AWS, lead backend design, and implement CI/CD for cloud-native solutions.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdCloudFormationJavaJava StreamingKafkaNoSQLSpring BootSQL
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Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
Lead the design and development of secure, scalable backend systems using Java. Architect cloud-native solutions and mentor teams for financial platforms.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdCloudFormationJava 11+KafkaNoSQLSecurity ProtocolsSpring BootSQL
Reposted 6 Days AgoSaved
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Mid level
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab, you'll enhance backend infrastructure for CI, integrate AI features, and ensure reliability and performance in CI/CD workflows.
Top Skills: AICi/Cd WorkflowsPostgresRubyRuby On Rails
Reposted 8 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology
As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.
Top Skills: Ai ToolingGoNode.jsPerlRag Pipelines
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
Ownership of backend features for Agentic Tools: design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, build secure scalable Ruby on Rails services, improve RSpec automated tests, collaborate across product and AI teams, participate in Tier 2 on-call, and shape architecture for AI agent interactions with GitLab.
Top Skills: Gitlab McpGraphQLPythonRestRspecRuby On RailsVue
Reposted 10 Days AgoSaved
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Mid level
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.
Top Skills: CGitGitalyGoLinux
13 Days AgoSaved
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Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.
Top Skills: Agent FrameworksGraphQLLangchainLanggraphLarge Language ModelsMulti-Agent OrchestrationPostgresPytestPythonRestRspecRuby On RailsSQLTool/Function Calling
14 Days AgoSaved
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
Build tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native and self-managed environments. Evolve deployment guidance, improve production-like ephemeral environments, and maintain consistent deployment artifacts and environment contracts across development through production.
Top Skills: Ci/CdCloud NativeDistributed SystemsEphemeral EnvironmentsGitlabKubernetesPlatform Engineering
Reposted 16 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Productivity • Software • App development • Automation
Senior PHP backend engineer to develop and maintain the Xodo Sign eSign platform. Work in a Scrum team across requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance; build and scale REST APIs; optimize performance and security; perform code reviews; research and propose product enhancements; and promote engineering best practices.
Top Skills: Aws Ec2Aws RdsAws S3DockerMySQLPHPRest ApisSymfony
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In-Office
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Hardware • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Design, develop, and maintain the core backend of a cloud-based distributed video management system. Build new features, increase capacity, manage CI/CD and customer deployments, and ensure code quality, security, and scalability while collaborating within an agile team.
Top Skills: AIC++Ci/CdCloudComputer VisionGoJavaMachine LearningPythonRustService-Oriented Architecture
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Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.
Top Skills: Agentic SystemsCi/CdGitlabJenkinsJIRALarge Language ModelsRuby on RailsRubySlack
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Reposted 21 Hours AgoSaved
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Insurance • Software • Business Intelligence
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll develop features using Python and various AWS services, focusing on AI-driven solutions for the insurance sector.
Top Skills: Auth0Aws Api GatewayAws LambdaAws RdsAws S3Aws SesAws SnsAws SqsCircleCIDatadogDockerGcp BigqueryGcp VertexaiGitJsonschemaKubernetesLocalstackMypyOcr EnginesPusherPythonRedisRelational DatabasesRest ApisRole Based Access ControlTerraform
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Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Software • Analytics
The Senior Software Engineer will focus on backend development, designing and maintaining APIs and services, collaborating on features, and enhancing integrations at Motion.
Top Skills: AzureExpressGraphQLMongoDBNode.jsPostgresReactTypescript
Reposted 2 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise Web • Software
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable distributed systems, improve developer experience, mentor peers, and lead incident responses.
Top Skills: GoNode.jsTypescript
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Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Software
Design, build, operate, and maintain scalable alerting backend systems. Drive features end-to-end, contribute to open-source, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and collaborate remotely to improve reliability, performance, and alert evaluation at scale.
Top Skills: C++CloudDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaGrafana CloudJavaPrometheusPythonRust
Reposted 3 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Mid level
Mid level
Biotech
A mid-level C# .Net Back End Software Engineer responsible for the software development lifecycle, collaborating with teams, and maintaining software applications with a focus on Azure cloud services.
Top Skills: .Net CoreAzure BicepAzure Cosmos DbAzure Data FactoryAzure DevopsAzure FunctionsAzure StorageC# .NetCypress.IoJavaScriptKey VaultNextjsPactflowPythonReactSeleniumService BusSnowflakeYaml
4 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Retail
Build and scale AI-driven backend systems and infrastructure for retail intelligence: develop the AI chatbot, agents, tooling and MCP integrations, evolve data processing across AWS and bare metal, own features end-to-end, and mentor team members.
Top Skills: AWSBare-MetalDevOpsDjangoElasticsearchFastapiFlaskLinuxLlmsMachine LearningMcpNoSQLPythonRagRelational Databases
Reposted 4 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Database • Analytics
The Senior Backend Engineer will build key backend services for an observability platform, manage data pipelines, work with open-source contributors, and tackle scalable backend system design challenges.
Top Skills: ClickhouseDockerExpressFastifyGoKafkaKubernetesNatsNode.jsOpentelemetryPostgresTypescript
6 Days AgoSaved
Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Junior
Junior
Software
Build and operate control-plane services that manage Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. Design reconciliation systems, manage rollouts, support region/cluster launches, improve incident response, collaborate cross-team, and own production behavior, runbooks, dashboards, and recovery procedures for stack lifecycle and configuration.
Top Skills: ArgoAWSAzureFluxGCPGoGrafanaGrafana CloudHelmJsonnetKubernetesLokiMimirNode.jsTankaTempoTerraformTypescript
Reposted 15 Days AgoSaved
In-Office
Edinburgh, Scotland
Entry level
Entry level
Hardware • Security • Software • Cybersecurity
Join Motorola Solutions as a Junior Back End Engineer, working on cloud video security systems, focusing on research, design, testing, and delivering features.
Top Skills: CC++CSSGitGoHTMLJavaJavaScriptPythonRest Apis
6 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Automation
Design, build, and scale Node.js backend services for a MERN-based, real-time platform. Improve performance, reliability, and fault tolerance; design APIs and database schemas; collaborate on architecture, code reviews, and operational ownership. Mentor peers, contribute to hiring, and drive engineering standards.
Top Skills: CachingDockerJavaScriptKubernetesLoad BalancingMernMicroservicesMongoDBNode.jsPostgresRest ApisTypescript
Reposted 6 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech
Develop scalable backend infrastructure for AI healthcare tools, focusing on API development, data processing, and compliance. Manage integrations with healthcare systems.
Top Skills: AWSDockerFastapiMySQLPostgresPythonRedis
Reposted 6 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior level
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Logistics • Software • Automation
The Senior Backend Developer will drive impact by collaborating with stakeholders, design and develop high-quality software, shape architecture, and lead technical direction while promoting innovation and collaboration within the team.
Top Skills: AWSAzureDockerF#GcsGithub Ci/CdGoKubernetesMySQLPythonReactTypescript
Reposted 6 Days AgoSaved
In-Office or Remote
Edinburgh, Scotland
Mid level
Mid level
HR Tech
The role involves back-end development using .NET Core and SQL, contributing to Jibble 2.0 API integrations, and collaborating with product and design teams.
Top Skills: .Net CoreAWSC#ConfluenceEf Core 5FigmaJIRAOpenapiPostgresRabbitMQSlackSQLTypescriptVue
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