Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Design, build, and support scalable payment services, backend APIs, and integrations serving high-volume transactions. Own features through design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. Shape platform architecture while improving performance, resilience, security, observability, monitoring, and cost efficiency. Champion clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices across distributed enterprise systems.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.

Contract software engineering role for a remote Europe-based engineer building scalable, resilient backend products with client teams. Responsibilities include backend development in Go, API and SaaS platform development, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes, testing with TDD, and performance optimization. The role also involves technical communication, collaborative problem-solving, and thoughtful use of AI tools.

Lead quality engineering for membership and loyalty capabilities, designing and executing functional, integration, API, contract, automation, and end-to-end tests. Build reliable test suites, validate loyalty points and personalized recommendations, manage test data, ensure cross-browser and cross-device quality, define testing strategies, and improve coverage using AI-assisted tools. Collaborate with engineering and product teams throughout the software development lifecycle while leading quality engineers in the loyalty and personalization area.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Maintain and enhance core banking modules, develop change requests, support live clients, and participate in requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, documentation, and estimation. The role involves collaborating with product and parameterization teams, improving product quality and maintainability, resolving bugs, contributing as a subject matter expert, and owning code components while developing specialist banking expertise.

Build and evolve Mural’s Canvas Core platform, including real-time collaboration, document and object models, rendering performance, asset management, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities. Own features from definition through measurement, optimize reliability and responsiveness, and contribute to technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering practices. Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

Design, build, operate, and improve reliable software services for regulated investment workflows. Own services throughout their lifecycle, including architecture, delivery, documentation, observability, SLAs, incident management, and on-call support. Collaborate within cross-functional squads, mentor engineers, communicate with nontechnical stakeholders, and deliver scalable solutions using TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, serverless technologies, and MongoDB.

Build and optimize high-performance Elixir/Phoenix backend systems with PostgreSQL at scale. Design efficient schemas, queries, indexes, batching strategies, migrations, and concurrency patterns. Diagnose database bottlenecks, support large document volumes, and improve reliability across cloud and self-hosted deployments. Contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, platform architecture, tooling, and customer success while collaborating with a remote-first team.

Responsible for the technical deployment of the Guardian system, ensuring it meets requirements, integrating with client environments, and managing customer communications.

Develop and support scalable Java and Spring Boot backend microservices powering omnichannel inventory availability, order promising, allocation, fulfilment, and post-purchase experiences. Build event-driven processing with Kafka, integrate OMS, WMS, ERP, commerce, and fulfilment platforms, and ensure services are secure, observable, reliable, and performant. Own features from design through production, write tested code, participate in reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and improve operational efficiency.

Designs, automates, and executes functional, integration, API, contract, regression, concurrency, and performance tests for inventory, order promising, sourcing, and fulfillment platforms. Investigates defects, validates fixes, maintains regression coverage, integrates quality tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supports release readiness. The role collaborates with product and engineering teams to validate distributed commerce systems, integrations, business rules, data consistency, scalability, resilience, and consumer-impacting workflows.

Leads hands-on software architecture, development, deployment, and issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, Azure and platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, customers, engineering, and product teams to define and deliver strategic programs. Develops tools, shares technical best practices, and supports Microsoft Fabric and GenAI solutions, including governance, automation, testing, and responsible AI controls. Requires frequent worldwide customer travel and regular engagement in Redmond.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend platforms for content and media, develop APIs, lead architecture design, and act as a technical authority.

Develop cloud-based Java microservices for CC Responder using agile Scrum practices. Responsibilities include full software development lifecycle ownership, system integration, testing, documentation, customer support, mentoring junior engineers, code reviews, architectural guidance, and establishing code quality standards.

Design and develop scalable, secure frontend web applications for connected embedded systems. Lead frontend architecture, collaborate with backend/embedded teams, implement device provisioning, telemetry visualization, and remote management UIs. Optimize performance, accessibility, and maintainability; mentor engineers, participate in reviews, and drive frontend best practices.

The Senior SDET at BR-DGE will design and maintain automation frameworks, partner with development teams to enhance quality, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and drive engineering maturity by coaching junior staff.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for quality, engineering judgment, reasoning, explanations, and user trust. Provide clear written feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, help define evaluation standards, and record short video explanations. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, familiarity with OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor, and excellent English communication.

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.

Associate software developer who will train and join a specialized software team, contributing to design, development, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. The role involves collaboration across hardware, embedded software, integration, algorithms, and AI/ML teams; completing assigned work; and documenting technical work and learnings.

The Senior Software Engineer, Frontend is responsible for developing and maintaining modern frontend systems, managing complex logic, and implementing API integrations while optimizing delivery through CI/CD processes.

Set long-term technical strategy for backend identity systems, lead major distributed-system initiatives, ensure operational availability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. Build and launch highly available systems supporting international expansion, KYC verification, identity data management, decisioning, regulatory compliance, and global risk models.

Design and build distributed systems for a high-performance CI/CD execution platform. Responsibilities include orchestrating Supabase Branch lifecycle operations, provisioning ephemeral sandboxed environments on AWS, scheduling concurrent builds, optimizing pipelines through caching and artifact reuse, handling retries and failures, instrumenting observability, and developing configuration and infrastructure integrations. The role requires strong Go and TypeScript skills, cloud infrastructure experience, and a production operations mindset.

Owns technical strategy, architecture, and operational excellence for FanDuel’s CPE engineering domain. Influences engineering standards across a large organization, guides major architectural decisions, supports complex production incidents, develops reference implementations, and mentors Senior Staff Engineers. The role also establishes responsible AI-assisted software development practices in a highly regulated environment, balancing scalability, reliability, security, auditability, and long-term technical direction.

Build and operate high-performance backend systems and distributed services using Elixir and Phoenix. Design declarative infrastructure with Terraform, Terramate, FluxCD, Kubernetes, and Helm; manage AWS cloud workloads, cluster upgrades, GitOps workflows, observability, and databases. Collaborate with a remote engineering team on architecture, product development, debugging, reliability, and customer success.