Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead technical direction and modernise international commerce platforms. Design scalable integrations for product, pricing, fulfilment, partner/marketplace flows. Promote engineering excellence, DevOps ownership, observability, and mentor teams while aligning technology strategy with business goals.

Design, implement, test, and ship Firefox security and hardening features for enterprise users. Improve browser security architecture across operating systems, including privilege isolation, trust boundaries, cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive web APIs. Investigate security issues, deliver maintainable fixes, and resolve stability, correctness, performance, memory, and multithreading challenges in a complex native codebase.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Build innovative software products in the Special Projects Division addressing public health, agriculture, education, and aid-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include designing software architectures, developing on UNIX-based platforms, participating in code reviews, using disciplined version control, collaborating with teams, and potentially applying Django, React, Android, or PyTorch. The role may involve travel to Africa to understand local contexts.

Leads software engineering teams in designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable, secure applications. Owns technical architecture, estimation, product planning, requirements, and delivery while using AWS, Node.js, TypeScript, Terraform, and AWS CDK. Provides technical direction, customer engagement, mentoring, coaching, and performance management. Applies modern development practices such as XP, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and production troubleshooting.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs supporting multiple Chainguard products. Own features end-to-end, create technical design documents, collaborate with Product and Experience teams, and contribute to a fast-paced, product-driven roadmap. Build reliable, observable cloud-native services and shared platform capabilities, including authentication and notifications.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for financial crime detection across WorldRemit and Sendwave. Responsibilities include developing alerting, screening, risk-rating, and agentic AI investigation workflows; integrating third-party compliance platforms; improving observability, reliability, and auditability; collaborating with compliance teams; reviewing designs and code; and participating in on-call production support. The role requires strong Java and Spring expertise, event-driven systems experience, and familiarity with cloud and infrastructure tooling.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and delivery of robust order management solutions, ensuring reliability and scalability, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams.

Develop and enhance scalable frontend features using JavaScript and Vue.js. Build performant business logic and UI components, write unit and end-to-end tests, troubleshoot complex issues, and contribute across the full feature lifecycle. The role includes mentoring teammates, collaborating with product, engineering, and QA, supporting prioritization and delivery, and improving usability, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.

As a Principal Engineer at M&S, you'll drive technical strategy, influence architecture, and mentor engineers while delivering on personalization, search, and machine learning features in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Develop and maintain PHP Laravel and JavaScript applications for web and cross-platform mobile clients. Responsibilities include writing tested code, refactoring legacy systems, optimizing database queries, participating in code reviews and sprint planning, documenting functionality, resolving production issues, and assisting with AWS deployments. The role also contributes to design patterns, coding standards, CI/CD practices, and ongoing product improvements.

Provides technical leadership for embedded C++ software development across the full lifecycle. Responsibilities include software design, architecture, requirements analysis, testing, Agile participation, peer reviews, safety compliance, and coaching junior engineers. The role involves real-time systems using bare metal, RTOS, SoCs, microcontrollers, and embedded platforms, with image processing, AI, and data analytics applications for defence products.

Design and implement large-scale browser-based rendering infrastructure to execute and extract structured content from JS-heavy web apps. Improve rendering quality, performance, cost, and throughput at internet scale and productionize rendering research.

Build, launch, and maintain gameplay features for Driving Empire on Roblox. Responsibilities include writing performant Roblox Lua code, designing scalable systems, translating product requirements into technical tasks, collaborating with designers and artists, monitoring live features, improving reliability and workflows, participating in code reviews, and playtesting to improve player experience.

Develop and maintain security-focused CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, backend services, APIs, and vulnerability-management workflows. Integrate source-code, dependency, repository, and container security scanning into software delivery processes. Analyze vulnerabilities, assess risk, support remediation, maintain security dashboards and reporting, and work with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Collaborate across engineering and business teams to improve secure software development practices and application security.

Build and maintain Ruby on Rails backend features for vulnerability management, including security dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines. Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability; collaborate across backend, frontend, product, design, and security teams; review code; address technical debt; and participate in on-call rotations. The role requires relational database experience, distributed-team collaboration, technical problem-solving, and contributions across the stack when needed.

Research, design, and develop algorithms and software systems for AI-driven CNC machining, including toolpath optimization, cutting strategies, and automated CAM workflows. Collaborate with manufacturing experts, data scientists, and software engineers to convert advanced concepts into reliable production software. The role emphasizes high-performance C++ development, computational geometry, numerical methods, optimization, and modern software engineering practices.

Develop software for CloudNC’s AI-powered CAM Assist product, collaborating with computer science and manufacturing experts to solve complex machining and toolpath-generation challenges. The role requires C++ development and experience with UI frameworks such as TypeScript, Angular, or React. Employees will receive training in factory operations and software capabilities; manufacturing experience is not required.

Design and develop clean, maintainable software for automated document-processing products. Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into product improvements, conduct code reviews, guide technical direction, mentor colleagues, and improve engineering practices. The role uses Golang, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and GitHub CI/CD while emphasizing product ownership, clean architecture, software craftsmanship, and technical communication.

Build and own React Native features for Kraken’s consumer mobile app, from product discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. Partner with Product and Design to create responsive, trustworthy financial experiences using dynamic or real-time data. Guide development for a new Asian-market app, including regional UX, connectivity restrictions, vendors, and telemetry. Contribute to architecture, performance, reliability, code reviews, and product engineering standards.

Owns the technical vision and roadmap for organization-wide CI/CD and release infrastructure. Identifies and remediates performance bottlenecks and supply-chain security risks, designs scalable release gates, directs engineers through complex multi-quarter projects, and leads incident response. The role requires hands-on debugging across the pipeline stack, cross-organizational influence, technical communication, mentorship, code and design reviews, and setting engineering standards.

Investigate and reverse-engineer software and cheats, perform static and dynamic analysis, develop and support anti-cheat measures and tooling, conduct root cause analysis, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve detection and remediation.

Lead design, development and maintenance of scalable, secure international pricing platforms and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion DevSecOps and automated testing, mentor engineers, and drive observability, incident management and operational excellence across cloud-native systems.

Designs, builds, and maintains platform software and deployment tooling across desktop, on-premise, cloud, and air-gapped environments. Responsibilities include production container images, stateful distributed-system upgrades, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure self-service capabilities, deployment instrumentation, testing strategy, application security, and customer releases. The engineer contributes to architecture, validates specifications, and oversees the quality of AI-generated code while collaborating with engineers, architects, designers, product managers, and stakeholders.