Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Provide hands-on technical leadership for Contact Centre technology. Design, build, and operate secure, scalable backend services, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and event-driven workflows. Lead technical direction across teams while developing primarily in Java and guiding frontend work in React and Next.js. Integrate CCaaS platforms including Zendesk, Twilio, Azure, and Google, supporting customer self-service, colleague tooling, and responsible AI automation.

Design, build, and maintain scalable brokerage systems, including Go or similar backend services, gRPC microservices, React administrative interfaces, and vendor integrations. Lead regional engineering reliability, incident response, recruitment initiatives, mentoring, and cross-functional projects. Collaborate globally to support multiple markets, currencies, languages, regulatory requirements, and 24x7 platform stability. Troubleshoot production incidents and bugs while developing high-availability financial applications.

Leads client-facing delivery of complex Canton Network and Daml-based financial solutions. Advises enterprise clients on architecture, topology, integrations, performance, and Kubernetes onboarding. Provides technical leadership across pre-sales, requirements, solution design, implementation, and software delivery. Coordinates cross-functional initiatives, estimates complex solutions, develops performance strategies, customizes Helm charts, and serves as a subject-matter expert for Canton Network products and other CX engineers.

Lead the development, testing, debugging, and technical design of scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud applications. Establish engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, incident management, and operational excellence. Partner with architects, product managers, business stakeholders, and external partners to deliver commercial planning solutions. Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled development practices.

Build and ship AI-powered product capabilities for enterprise IT operations. Design production systems involving LLMs, agents, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs, workflow orchestration, APIs, integrations, and automation. Own features from customer discovery through implementation, launch, troubleshooting, and iteration. Collaborate directly with customers and cross-functional teams while making pragmatic tradeoffs around reliability, cost, latency, and scalability.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native backend systems and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion testing and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive operational excellence.

Lead technical design and delivery of supply chain and warehouse software at scale. Drive architecture, DevOps, observability, reliability and performance practices; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote clean code and engineering excellence across teams; support recruitment and outreach.

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.

Build and operate backend pricing systems for real energy contracts. Responsibilities include designing the Pricing API, consolidating pricing logic, improving quote speed, implementing error handling and observability, creating alerting, explaining pricing failures, and supporting live incidents. The role requires production Python backend experience, FastAPI, SQL, data-heavy systems, end-to-end project ownership, and AI-assisted development 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.

Build and maintain React-based Responsible Gaming tools and Java backend APIs and services for high-volume, reliable systems. Contribute across the full stack, including database-backed functionality, testing, monitoring, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and technical discussions. Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance stakeholders while learning about distributed systems, scalability, caching, and cloud infrastructure.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Agent Studio. Build orchestration, configuration, integrations, deployment, lifecycle, authentication, authorization, observability, and runtime management capabilities. Collaborate with frontend, AI/ML, product, UX, DevOps, and platform teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance services. Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to technical designs, code reviews, testing, and continuous engineering improvements.

Join the International Accelerator full-stack team to design, build, and operate Direct-to-Consumer products across international markets. Break projects into tasks, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, build and monitor APIs and web apps, support on-call and availability, participate in hiring and team growth, and write clear, well-tested, maintainable code.

Develop backend software in C# .NET within an agile delivery team. Responsibilities include system design, coding, technical documentation, automated testing, collaboration with product managers and test engineers, and maintaining high-quality mission-critical software. The role is remote with occasional travel and supports a UK emergency call-taking and dispatch platform.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for Kaluza’s energy retail platform. Responsibilities include developing event-driven systems, optimizing SQL and NoSQL databases, using AWS and serverless architectures, monitoring production services, and collaborating with product and engineering teams. The role also involves mentoring colleagues, promoting engineering best practices, and owning services from architecture through continuous improvement.

Architect and deliver resilient, high-performance cloud services for SailPoint’s identity platform using Golang and Angular. Design synchronous and event-driven microservices, build scalable SaaS features, improve performance and reliability, conduct architecture and code reviews, and mentor engineers. The role includes collaboration with product and architecture teams, participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation, and leadership across Policy Engine and agentic identity initiatives.

Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack microservices for SailPoint’s Policy Engine. Develop scalable distributed systems using Golang and Angular, write unit and integration tests, debug and profile complex services, participate in on-call support, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical roadmaps and architectural initiatives.

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.

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.

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.