Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Freelance software developer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-performance applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, client-focused solutions on a remote, on-demand platform.

Join ROOST's Coop project to design, implement, test, document, and release trust-and-safety features. Work across backend APIs, GraphQL, databases, and UI to improve reviewer workflows, detection integrations, and reporting. Lead code quality, security practices, community contribution reviews, and stakeholder coordination while engaging with users and the open source community.

Join the ROOST Osprey team to design, implement, test, and maintain a high-performance, real-time safety rules engine. Work includes building data/event pipelines, scaling and containerizing services, integrating with Kafka and gRPC, reviewing community contributions, maintaining code quality and security, and engaging with users and open source contributors to prioritize and deliver features.

The Software Engineer for Platform will design and maintain robust APIs, collaborate on B2B solutions, and ensure backend architecture aligns with product strategy.

The Software Engineer will develop data pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with AI scientists to enhance data acquisition for model training.

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.

Work on Avaloq's Credit Core product implementing business functionality, owning core and ABR/S components, writing solution designs, adding automated tests, and supporting client workshops and requirement analysis within an Agile team.

Design and build distributed backend services for the cloud monetization platform, focusing on correctness, consistency, scalable microservices, distributed transactions, and reliable asynchronous workflows. Influence system architecture, own service implementations, and collaborate across teams to support billing, reservations, payments, and revenue flows.

Build and maintain integrations for North's agentic platform, own the end-to-end integration pipeline, create evals and tests to ensure reliability, tune tool descriptions, and help other engineers add and maintain integrations while using AI responsibly to improve performance and quality.

Lead development of the Live View feature for iOS, build mobile apps that integrate with devices, collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to architecture and design, and follow full SDLC practices including code reviews, source control, testing, and operations.

Develop data extraction and manipulation pipelines, use AI models and NLP (e.g., ChatGPT APIs) to analyze and match available luxury items to customer requests and sales orders, and collaborate to improve matching accuracy and processing efficiency.

Work as an embedded QA engineer for Unity Studio performing manual and exploratory testing, owning QA processes from requirements to sign-off, writing and maintaining test cases, managing defect lifecycles, collaborating with engineers/product managers, participating in agile ceremonies, and contributing to quality process improvements.

The Software Engineer will design, develop, and support the MEMX Trading system software, focusing on production support during US evening hours.

Build and own end-to-end backend systems for forecasting and agentic LLM research: design, deploy, monitor, debug, and harden features and pipelines (benchmarks, agents, production services). Prototype quickly, work with LLM APIs and coding agents, and collaborate with researchers to improve evaluation and forecasting tools.

Develop, implement, and support enterprise software using Java/Spring Boot and Angular. Collaborate with product and agile teams to design, code, test, review and deploy microservices and APIs, provide production support, document artifacts, and ensure scalability, performance and adherence to architecture and best practices.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend systems for payment processing, collaborating with teams, setting goals, and fostering quality and ownership in code development.

Lead design and implementation of scalable AI-centric systems for offensive security, develop agentic AI capabilities (LLMs, RAG), own feature lifecycle to production, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and integrate AI into microservice architectures with cloud, container, and messaging technologies.

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 scalable, reliable agentic AI systems for biomedical research, integrating LLMs, tool-calling, and data platforms. Drive technical decisions, optimize analytical workflows, deploy agents on the data platform, mentor teammates, and participate in on-call rotation to ensure performance, security, and continuous improvement.

Join Canonical as a graduate software engineer to write high-quality code across the open source stack, work on Linux system-level and application projects, engage with communities, respond to customer issues, and develop security-aware software while collaborating remotely and attending biannual in-person team sprints.

Analyze and optimize ClickHouse database performance, develop performance tests, support engineering teams, collaborate with core teams, and engage with the open-source community.

Customer-embedded principal software engineer driving production-grade solutions for strategic accounts. Translate business needs into technical designs, build and deploy end-to-end systems, influence senior stakeholders, and transition work to FDE crews. Operate in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with strong ownership, industry context, and an entrepreneurial mindset to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Build and maintain full-stack features for customer and internal web apps, design backend APIs for onboarding and transactions, integrate third-party services, implement OAuth2 authentication, operate in a microservices AWS environment, ensure security, performance, observability, participate in code reviews and architecture, and write technical documentation.

Design, develop, and maintain web applications, Python middleware, and automation for BEAR research computing. Deploy and operate services on Linux/BEAR Cloud, improve CI/CD and testing, integrate systems (e.g., GitLab, ServiceNow), support users, participate in triage/housekeeping rotas, and collaborate on technical design and engineering practices to improve reliability and scalability.

Build and maintain the Internal Engineering Platform and CI/CD systems to help internal teams release software reliably. Automate build/release/deploy processes, manage artifact and configuration tooling, integrate observability, operate platform services (on-call), and collaborate with security and application teams to drive developer productivity.