Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Leads engineering teams across people, product, and technical delivery. Manages approximately 7–10 engineers, supports career development through coaching and feedback, ensures engineering excellence, partners with technical and product leaders, drives delivery outcomes, communicates with stakeholders, and contributes to organization-wide engineering practices. The role requires prior software engineering experience, strong technical judgment, delivery leadership, autonomy, and the ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.

Build and ship AI-powered product capabilities for enterprise IT operations. Design production systems involving LLMs, agents, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs, workflow orchestration, APIs, integrations, and automation. Own features from customer discovery through implementation, launch, troubleshooting, and iteration. Collaborate directly with customers and cross-functional teams while making pragmatic tradeoffs around reliability, cost, latency, and scalability.

Lead and develop a product engineering squad, balancing people leadership, delivery accountability, and technical guidance. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, planning, delivery health, production readiness, system reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability. Partner with product managers and engineering leaders to align priorities, guide technical decisions, improve delivery predictability, and support responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.

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.

Lead Supabase’s Billing engineering team, overseeing people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, technical direction, partnerships, and incident response. Own systems covering subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoices, payments, taxation, entitlements, collections, and provider integrations. Build a healthy remote team, ensure predictable delivery, improve reliability and operational maturity, and coordinate with Product, Finance, Data, Support, Sales, and Partnerships on revenue-critical initiatives.

Leads geographically dispersed customer solutions and professional services teams, overseeing solutioning, project delivery, engineering, and operations. Ensures customer engagements are delivered on time, within budget, and at high quality while managing resources, methodologies, profitability, escalations, and continuous improvement. Builds team capability, coaches leaders, standardizes global practices, supports customer training, and partners with business units on customer requirements and product enhancements.

Coordinates hotel engineering maintenance requests, purchase orders, invoices, procurement, compliance records, safety documentation, preventative maintenance schedules, and engineering projects. The role liaises with contractors, suppliers, and hotel departments while providing administrative support and service to guests and colleagues. Technical knowledge of HVAC, BMS, and fire and life safety systems is required, alongside engineering and health and safety qualifications.

Lead and develop a software engineering team responsible for scalable backend services, APIs, data processing, and production operations. Own delivery across the software lifecycle, establish quality and reliability practices, partner with Product and AI/ML teams, manage priorities and risks, coach engineers, recruit talent, and build an inclusive culture. The role requires strong backend, cloud, distributed systems, CI/CD, observability, and people leadership experience.

Leads the UK&I Data Engineering team, setting technical strategy and overseeing delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities. Drives Azure and Databricks cloud modernization, data governance, security, privacy, compliance, and AI adoption. Responsibilities include team leadership, talent development, workforce planning, cross-functional stakeholder management, and collaboration with global engineering, product, analytics, architecture, and operations teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of a composable, API-first Core Commerce Platform powering checkout, payments, OMS, inventory availability, loyalty, and post-order experiences. Drive integration of packaged solutions (SFCC, Fluent Commerce), payments, social and agentic commerce, and AI-native capabilities. Own SLAs, reliability, security (PCI-DSS), roadmap, and engineering standards while building and leading high-performing, on-site platform teams.

Lead a remote platform engineering team responsible for core testing capabilities. Set technical direction, modernize legacy systems, build agentic and LLM-powered workflows, partner with product on roadmap delivery, and contribute hands-on to production code. Own reliability, observability, production support, application security, engineering standards, and team development while improving system scalability and reducing technical debt.

Leads quality engineering for consumer-facing web and mobile experiences. Designs scalable automation frameworks, develops functional, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end test suites, and integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Validates accessibility, performance, reliability, and cross-device behavior; investigates defects, analyzes quality metrics, and drives continuous improvement. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted testing practices.

Design, build, optimize, and support scalable consumer-facing mobile applications across iOS and Android using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Develop native integrations, reusable components, secure architectures, API integrations, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to releases and Agile delivery, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive mobile engineering excellence, accessibility, performance, and reliability.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Leads EMEA sales engineering strategy and a team of sales engineers. Partners with sales and customers on technical evaluations, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, solution design, proposals, and trusted-advisor relationships. Oversees hiring, mentoring, performance management, technical collateral, metrics, budgets, and customer feedback to product and engineering teams. Requires extensive EMEA sales engineering leadership experience and expertise in cloud, container, and security technologies.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Leads and develops the Software Engineering team, overseeing people management, engineering operations, releases, production incidents, code quality, governance, technical investigations, SQL data work, and technical stakeholder collaboration. The role provides technical direction, supports delivery planning, reduces technical debt, promotes engineering standards, and drives continuous improvement across software development practices.

Reviews and evaluates engineering, infrastructure, and platform documents and work products for technical accuracy, completeness, clarity, consistency, and relevance. Provides structured feedback, identifies errors and gaps, compares technical approaches, and follows defined evaluation frameworks. Requires independent work, strong communication, analytical ability, and professional engineering judgment. The role is fully remote and supports varied technical evaluation projects as an independent contractor.

Build and maintain backend features for Agent Observability across the GitLab monolith and AI gateway. Design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, improve automated tests (RSpec), collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot production issues on Tier 2 on-call, and help shape responsible AI integration and platform architecture.

Leads data engineering teams building scalable data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and data products on Databricks and AWS. Oversees hiring, coaching, delivery planning, architecture, platform reliability, SLAs, incident response, monitoring, and cost optimization. Partners cross-functionally with architects, product managers, analytics, and engineering teams to establish technical strategy, governance, and operational excellence.

Lead technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; resolve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentor engineers across teams.

Leads the DTC Platform Engineering organization, overseeing cloud foundations, DevOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, integrations, quality engineering, performance, security, developer tooling, and AI-enabled engineering platforms. Defines multi-year platform strategy, infrastructure and security standards, self-service capabilities, and delivery governance. Partners with product engineering, security, finance, and infrastructure teams while building and mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams focused on scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-efficient software delivery.

Lead and develop approximately 12 software engineers across three product teams. Own engineering performance, career progression, promotions, hiring, onboarding, team health, and management processes. Coach engineers, address performance issues, improve career frameworks and review cycles, and maintain a strong remote culture. Partner with Tech Leads and the Head of Engineering while providing sufficient technical guidance to understand code and engineering discussions without owning technical decisions.

Owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; remains hands-on with coding, prototyping, reviews, debugging, and production support. Leads architecture decisions, resolves complex technical problems, improves engineering quality, drives critical initiatives, and mentors engineers across teams.

Lead the engineering strategy and execution for an AI-powered email application across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Build APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences, lead a senior engineering team, make architecture and scalability decisions, and establish strong observability, monitoring, testing, security, and operational foundations. Partner with ML leadership to deliver fast, reliable, maintainable product experiences.