Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

Lead and grow a high-performing full-stack engineering team to deliver unified web customer experiences. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, collaborate with product and delivery teams, and drive solution quality across React/.NET applications while supporting learning and professional development.

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.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of a major global product area spanning multiple modules. Architect scalable, distributed cloud systems, shape technical vision and product roadmaps, guide engineering teams, make high-stakes technical decisions, and influence executives and cross-functional stakeholders. The role is primarily hands-off, with occasional code-level design and proof-of-concept work. Experience with AI/ML, AWS, API design, data modeling, SaaS, DevOps, and CI/CD is advantageous.

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 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.

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.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for pricing and promotions across multiple customer channels. Develop Java or Kotlin microservices, Kafka-based event-driven systems, GraphQL and REST APIs, and resilient low-latency data solutions using MongoDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Own complex backend features throughout their lifecycle while supporting API governance, reliability, performance, and reusable platform capabilities.

Build and operate secure, scalable authentication, authorization, and identity services serving millions of customers and colleagues. Responsibilities include end-to-end feature ownership, backend API development, solution design, testing, deployment, monitoring, production support, technical direction, code reviews, and engineering best-practice development. The role requires strong distributed systems, cloud-native engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, and identity standards experience.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate backend software supporting contact centre services. Build Java APIs, integrations, data flows, and event-driven solutions connecting platforms such as Zendesk, Twilio, Azure, and Google. Develop customer self-service and FAQ capabilities, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and own solutions throughout the delivery lifecycle while maintaining security, performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Build and evolve scalable Python services powering M&S paid media and personalisation campaigns across web, mobile, email, push, and paid social. Develop integrations for audience activation, bidding, and budget management; implement experimentation, attribution, and measurement frameworks; and use large-scale data to improve marketing performance, media efficiency, and customer outcomes.

Design and evolve backend-heavy experimentation platform capabilities, including APIs, services, automation pipelines, and developer tooling. Set technical direction, build self-service tools, operate reliable distributed systems on Azure, and establish observability and safe-change practices. Partner with product and engineering teams, document systems and standards, and mentor engineers across experience levels.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable order management capabilities across checkout, fulfilment, returns, amendments, and cancellations. Own features end to end while improving architecture, integrations, automation, observability, resilience, monitoring, security, and operational support. Collaborate with product, engineering, and fulfilment stakeholders to modernize enterprise systems and improve delivery outcomes.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable order management software for checkout, fulfilment, returns, amendments, and cancellations. Own features end to end, shape platform architecture, improve integrations, resilience, automation, observability, and security, and promote engineering excellence. Collaborate with product and fulfilment stakeholders, support production operations, and mentor engineers through coaching, reviews, and technical guidance.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure payment platform capabilities. Own reliability, performance and resilience, drive DevOps/CI-CD, observability and incident management, and mentor engineers to improve platform engineering practices.

Provides technical leadership for hospitality technology platforms, defining architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams. Designs scalable distributed systems, reusable platforms, tooling, and services while improving resilience, observability, incident management, and performance. Partners with architects, vendors, engineers, and stakeholders on technology decisions and investment priorities. Mentors engineers, promotes engineering excellence, and contributes to recruitment and technical community development.

Build, maintain, and release reliable cloud software for the Customer Data Platform. Lead complex feature delivery, make architectural decisions, improve code quality, testing, observability, security, and operational reliability. Collaborate with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams, participate in on-call support, contribute to planning and OKRs, and mentor engineers through pairing, reviews, and technical guidance.

Lead technical strategy and software engineering excellence across customer platform systems supporting warehouse operations. Design and launch complex, high-impact solutions; promote clean architecture, DevOps, security, observability, reliability, performance engineering, and testing practices. Influence technology and product investment decisions, mentor senior engineers, improve engineering processes, support recruitment and outreach, and foster innovation, autonomy, and engineering maturity across cross-functional teams.

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.