Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Entry-level software engineering role for new graduates joining Affirm’s Instruments team. Responsibilities include contributing to team projects, writing clear and well-tested code, navigating large codebases, debugging, participating in code reviews, collaborating with global stakeholders, communicating trade-offs, and balancing delivery speed with system quality and reliability. The role is hybrid in London during the early-career program, with future remote or office flexibility.

Develop and maintain internal TypeScript services for enterprise resilience, including data feeds, scheduled jobs, dashboards, REST APIs, tests, deployments, and bug fixes. Collaborate with stakeholders and non-technical colleagues while contributing to process automation, reporting, disaster simulation, and agentic AI initiatives. The role may also involve Salesforce development and requires proactive problem solving, workload organization, and effective cross-functional communication.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native AI infrastructure and platform services to support model development, training, evaluation, and inference. Implement IaC and automation, enable ML/LLM production deployments within governed enterprise environments, build observability and monitoring, collaborate with security and cross-functional partners, and support on-call/operational duties.

Software engineering intern supporting the Platform Engines group and Policy Engine for SailPoint’s cloud identity security platform. Responsibilities include developing software, procedures, and test solutions; collaborating with software and QA engineers, technical writers, and product managers; and working in Agile teams. The intern will gain exposure to cloud and software technologies including Golang, Angular, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, REST, SQL, and Temporal.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support full-stack features for the ELM secure generative AI platform. Develop Java and Spring services, TypeScript and Angular web applications, database integrations, REST APIs, and containerized deployments. Contribute to CI/CD, automated testing, secure coding, accessibility, documentation, code reviews, and agile delivery while collaborating with technical and non-technical teams. Production support, cloud platforms, AI integrations, mentoring, and responsible AI experience are desirable.

Build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, learn event-driven systems and AWS cloud platforms, work with databases and APIs, and contribute to customer-facing features. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers; participate in code reviews, planning, and team discussions; and develop clean, reliable software with team support.

Designs, develops, tests, operates, and supports secure, reliable software solutions. Responsibilities include translating requirements into technical designs, building full-stack or cloud software, reviewing AI-assisted code, creating automated tests, participating in code and design reviews, documenting systems, and improving engineering practices. Specialisms include backend, frontend, full-stack, DevOps, and cloud engineering, using technologies such as Python, JavaScript, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Lead Mark43's AI-enabled engineering initiative by designing and orchestrating multi-agent systems that plan, write, review, test, and deploy software. Write prompts, scaffolding, and tool integrations (VCS, test runners, internal APIs), evaluate agent performance, prototype LLM-based workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor teammates, and contribute to on-call rotations.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, optimize performance, implement testing and monitoring, resolve production issues, support CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in an Agile environment while contributing to code reviews, architecture, experiments, and continuous improvement.

Build and maintain Turso’s open-source database and cloud platform. Responsibilities include advancing PostgreSQL compatibility, ensuring software correctness through testing and verification, operating cloud APIs and data planes, and scaling systems to support substantially more databases. The role involves Rust development, embedded database technology, large-scale cloud operations, observability, reliability, performance improvements, and collaboration with customers, open-source communities, and distributed teams.

Build and improve Firefox WebCompat internal dashboards, reporting tools, and broken-site screenshot capture pipelines. The role involves creating reliable data views for triage and metrics, automating screenshot workflows, collaborating with WebCompat and QA teams, and translating reporting needs into effective tooling. Familiarity with WebCompat workflows, Bugzilla, screenshot automation, and machine learning is preferred.

Improve Firefox Gecko’s Session History reliability by expanding Web Platform and Gecko mochitest coverage, debugging failures, fixing correctness issues, and landing changes through code review. The role requires substantial browser-engine experience, strong C++ and JavaScript skills, and comfort working with public bugs, module owners, and upstream development processes.

Build Tailscale’s internal AI-enablement tools, workflows, guardrails, and practices. Partner with engineering leadership and technical teams to define the AI roadmap, evaluate coding agents and models, improve developer velocity and quality, and drive safe adoption. The role includes internal tooling, developer advocacy, documentation, impact measurement, and collaboration across engineering and non-engineering teams.

Supports a business-critical warehouse management system in a 24x7 environment. Responsibilities include application maintenance, upgrades, incident resolution, infrastructure and database administration, SQL performance optimization, monitoring, integrations, change and release management, vendor coordination, SOX compliance, disaster recovery testing, documentation, and continuous service improvement.

Provides 24x7 production and application support for a business-critical warehouse management system. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident resolution, troubleshooting, SQL and database support, application maintenance, upgrades, release testing, infrastructure coordination, documentation, SOX compliance, and disaster recovery testing. The role collaborates with infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, SAP, middleware, database, and vendor teams to maintain application availability, security, and performance.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Write clean, tested code; work with relational and NoSQL databases; participate in code reviews; collaborate with senior engineers and product teams; and use Git-based CI/CD workflows to deliver features. The role includes mentorship, client collaboration, and occasional travel to client sites or company offices.

Build and maintain full-stack features for secure, high-volume fintech and cryptocurrency transactions. Develop Golang and Java backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React/Next.js applications. Integrate third-party systems, implement OAuth 2.0 authentication, work with microservices, and ensure security, performance, reliability, and observability. Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature ownership in a fully remote environment.

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.

Develop and lead full-stack user interface work for Elastic Fleet and Streams using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Own complex projects end to end, make architecture and system-design decisions, establish coding standards, conduct code reviews, improve testing and deployment, and collaborate asynchronously with designers, product managers, and distributed engineering teams. Build scalable interfaces for observability, log ingestion, and real-time data workflows while mentoring teammates and promoting secure, maintainable software.

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.

Own software products end to end, from problem definition and design through production operation. Build across front-end, back-end, services, and APIs; use and review AI coding agents; maintain tests and safeguards; monitor real-world usage; contribute to reliable cloud systems and on-call support. Mentor teammates, improve engineering conventions, and collaborate closely with product, design, and users in a complex energy domain.

Provides technical leadership for software solutions that manage and control power systems supporting the transition to renewable energy. Designs and develops scalable Java-based modules, leads architecture and design reviews, ensures code quality and performance, estimates work, collaborates with product teams and customers, and mentors engineers in an agile environment.

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.