Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Design, build, operate, and maintain scalable distributed systems supporting CrowdStrike’s Intelligence pipelines. Gather requirements from analysts, develop processing and data integration systems, make autonomous architecture decisions, maintain Go and Python codebases, deploy production services, document solutions, train users, and communicate technical details effectively. The role requires independent execution in a geographically distributed team and includes opportunities to work with cloud platforms, APIs, web interfaces, malware analysis, and AI technologies.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Supports the full software development lifecycle within an application support team, including front-end and back-end development, integrations, DevOps, service support, workflow planning, quality assurance, solution design, and implementing customer requirements. The role includes hands-on Java development, database work, unit testing, client delivery, and participation in an on-call rotation. It is a hybrid technology consultancy position requiring UK client-site travel when needed.

Develop and maintain tested frontend software for Motorola Solutions’ video management platform. Implement state management, API integrations, real-time features, and scalable web interfaces using TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks. Collaborate across teams, debug issues, apply engineering best practices, and contribute to CI/CD and deployment processes. The role follows a hybrid working model in Edinburgh.

Design, build, and operate high-performance platform services for SailPoint’s Identity Security Cloud. Develop Golang microservices, Angular and TypeScript features, automated tests, and AWS-based distributed architectures. Collaborate with data scientists on AI-driven capabilities, optimize low-latency services and databases, improve CI/CD pipelines, participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, and contribute to technical design, mentoring, and platform strategy.

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.

Designs, builds, deploys, and operates production-grade AI applications, agents, services, integrations, and workflows. Leads architecture, coding standards, testing, experimentation, reliability, observability, security, compliance, and operational readiness. Translates business requirements into scalable technical solutions, mentors engineers, coordinates across teams, and develops reusable engineering patterns. Participates in on-call support, incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement while using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Build and ship native Android features in Kotlin for an AI-enabled neobank. Design clean mobile flows for payments, insurance and financial services, integrate backend APIs, improve performance and reliability, use analytics and on-device ML (TensorFlow Lite) to enhance user journeys, and collaborate with product and design.

Build and maintain Samsara's Cloud Governance Platform across AWS and GCP, focusing on cloud IAM guardrails, automated compliance controls, and software supply-chain security. Implement SAST/DAST and secure CI/CD patterns, design scalable, reliable systems, translate regulatory requirements into automated controls, collaborate cross-functionally, and own components end-to-end while mentoring teammates and shaping the roadmap.

Leads development of scalable platform capabilities, infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks. Drives the full software development lifecycle, applies cloud-native architecture, conducts system design reviews, builds AI-driven applications, mentors engineers, and collaborates with stakeholders to deliver reliable, data-informed technical solutions.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, integration layers, and microservices supporting personalization and recommendation experiences. Partner with AI/ML and data engineers to deploy models, expose AI services, and develop React applications. Improve security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while using AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and code quality.

Build and operate scalable, low-latency backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, and frontend applications supporting membership, loyalty, rewards, and consumer engagement. Configure and integrate Antavo with commerce, CRM, CDP, marketing, and data platforms. Apply secure, observable, resilient engineering practices, troubleshoot production issues, and optimize performance. The role requires strong Java and Spring Boot expertise, plus working knowledge of React, Node.js, Kafka, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, model-serving layers, and integrations supporting real-time and batch personalization and recommendation experiences. Design reliable, secure, observable distributed systems using Java and Spring Boot, optimize performance and operational efficiency, and integrate LLM and AI services into production applications. Collaborate with engineering leadership and use AI-assisted development tools to improve delivery and code quality.

Designs and executes functional, integration, API, automated, exploratory, and end-to-end tests for personalization, recommendation, experimentation, and consumer intelligence capabilities. Builds test suites, validates AI-driven outputs and consumer journeys, manages test data, performs cross-browser testing, partners with engineering and product teams, and improves automation coverage, regression efficiency, and defect detection.

Software Engineer role at Paddle, a global Merchant of Record and payments infrastructure company. The posting provides limited role-specific responsibilities or qualifications, but the position focuses on software engineering using Go. Paddle offers remote or hub-based work, professional development support, unlimited holidays, and inclusive workplace benefits.

Build BLP’s core software across infrastructure, backend, machine learning, and product extension platforms. Responsibilities include operating secure and observable cloud infrastructure, developing performant distributed systems, applying AI to business problems, and enabling customer process automation. The role emphasizes formal reasoning, correctness by construction, maintainable systems, type systems, and functional programming. Work is available onsite in Zurich or remotely within Europe.

Build and operate backend services, package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems in Go. Develop features from design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration while improving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in code reviews and design discussions, investigate production issues, and help create a unified repository platform for libraries, containers, images, APKs, and other artifacts.

Build and operate full-stack web applications end to end, from technical design through production release and support. Direct and verify coding agents, create tests and safeguards, review changes for design and security, respond to production issues, maintain alerting and runbooks, and document systems. The role requires strong ownership, independent technical judgment, collaboration, and excellent English communication. Vue, TypeScript, AWS serverless, EdTech, and UI/UX experience are useful but not required.

Develop, own and deliver commercial .NET software features; contribute to architecture, mentor junior developers, provide 3rd-line support, and ensure quality through testing and performance tuning of database-backed systems.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, coding, and operating highly available distributed identity systems for Affirm’s international markets. The role includes owning quarterly goals, delivering scalable features in Kotlin and Python, collaborating across product and engineering teams, improving code and design standards, monitoring system availability, resolving production issues, mentoring engineers, and supporting technical planning and hiring.

Build and maintain full-stack features using Node.js, React or React Native, and PostgreSQL. Contribute to REST APIs, automated testing, trunk-based development, infrastructure as code, security, accessibility, observability, and reliability. Collaborate across disciplines, understand user and business needs, participate in technical decisions and knowledge sharing, and shadow the out-of-hours on-call rota.

Build and launch scalable backend features and services for restaurant partners. Own projects end to end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, identify high-impact technical opportunities, and maintain reliable production systems through testing, monitoring, logging, and DevOps practices. The role uses Python and Flask primarily, with flexibility to work in Go, Ruby, and other technologies on a distributed remote team.

Build and maintain customer-facing features, internal tools, and platform improvements for a Rails-based self-storage operating system. Responsibilities include full feature ownership, collaborating with Product, writing tests, debugging production issues, improving stability and performance, monitoring applications, participating in code reviews, and contributing to technical discussions. The role requires independent work on defined tasks and collaboration within a small product engineering team.

Develops full-stack features for live operational metrics, including backend services, APIs, and real-time frontend dashboards. Responsibilities include improving system scalability and stability, integrating business logic, troubleshooting software, documenting technical changes, and collaborating with stakeholders. Requires frontend JavaScript or TypeScript experience and backend .NET development with C# and ASP.NET. The role is primarily remote with occasional Bristol or London office visits.