Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

Designs and delivers scalable AI-centric software for offensive security, including agentic vulnerability detection, automated penetration testing, workflow optimization, and threat intelligence. Owns features from ideation through deployment and monitoring, contributes to architecture and testing, and collaborates across teams. Requires Python or Go, AI technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud experience.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable backend systems and APIs using Java, Python, AWS, Terraform, and React. Owns product and technology areas, resolves complex issues, participates in code reviews and design discussions, improves engineering processes, supports production systems through on-call rotation, and mentors other engineers. The role emphasizes pragmatic software design, operational excellence, testing, DevOps practices, and continuous improvement.

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

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.

Provides technical leadership for software development supporting grid management and power-system control. Designs and develops modules for grid software products, makes technology and interface decisions, leads design reviews, estimates work, maintains code quality, optimizes performance, and mentors team members. Requires advanced Java and Spring expertise, microservices and web-services experience, containerization skills, and familiarity with modern web technologies. The role is hybrid in Edinburgh and collaborates with global, multidisciplinary teams.

Build and own backend systems for card issuing, payments, reconciliation, double-entry accounting, webhooks, API versioning, and compliance workflows. Responsibilities include making architectural decisions, writing RFCs, delivering features from customer problem to production, monitoring and debugging live systems, improving engineering practices, and mentoring teammates. The role requires strong distributed systems and software fundamentals, functional programming or fintech expertise, and comfort working autonomously in a collaborative startup environment.

Own end-to-end development of automation and AI-driven systems across tenant find, property management, or payments. Responsibilities include understanding complex operational workflows, identifying automation opportunities, designing scalable architectures, collaborating with product managers, making pragmatic AI and agentic system decisions, and delivering reliable solutions from concept through production. The role requires strong product judgment, technical ownership, and the ability to improve business outcomes in a fast-changing environment.

The Software Engineer will develop and maintain software for products, focusing on state management patterns and API integrations while collaborating with teams.

Build and maintain production-grade iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, integrating AI through backend APIs. Design reliable AI interaction patterns, optimize performance and memory, support concurrency and background tasks, capture user feedback, and collaborate with backend and machine learning engineers. Maintain App Store quality, monitor production issues, and deliver responsive, stable, and efficient user experiences.

Lead the technical vision and development of Elasticsearch’s core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, query execution, and relevance. Research search algorithms and data structures, contribute to Lucene, guide technical roadmaps, collaborate across teams, mentor senior engineers, and build high-performance distributed search systems. Serve as a subject-matter expert while driving projects from concept through completion.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend applications, services, and APIs using modern engineering practices. Responsibilities include architecture and solution design, unit and integration testing, troubleshooting, code reviews, technical discussions, Agile collaboration, continuous improvement, and mentoring junior engineers. The role emphasizes performance, reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and translating business requirements into high-quality technical solutions.

Own end-to-end design, development, deployment, and support of CreatePay’s AWS-based PayFac and acquiring platform. Design resilient distributed, event-driven, serverless systems; build APIs and integrations with payment, KYC/KYB, fraud, and banking providers; develop data models and pipelines; and ensure secure, PCI-aware, observable infrastructure. Act as a technical partner to the CTO and de facto product owner, independently defining scope, validating third-party work, and applying AI and automation to improve delivery.

Build AI-powered product quality infrastructure for capturing, synthesizing, routing, and acting on customer feedback. Develop bug intake and triage systems, dashboards, data pipelines, analytics tooling, and integrations with ticketing, payment, CRM, and data warehouse systems. Partner with support engineers and domain specialists to improve product quality and ship internal tools quickly.

Join an 11-person founding team to build and improve a live multiplayer video game platform. Responsibilities may include creating games, developing gameplay systems and engine features, optimizing performance, building an in-game marketplace, improving partner integrations, and incorporating player feedback. The role spans software engineering, game design, UI/UX, and community engagement using a TypeScript-first stack with React, WebGL, and Node.js.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Build and maintain cloud software for a Customer Data Platform, delivering complex features from design through production. Lead technical delivery, design scalable solutions, improve code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and security. Collaborate with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams, participate in on-call support, contribute to planning and roadmap discussions, and mentor engineers.

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.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop and maintain backend systems for data processing related to coffee farming, utilizing Python and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, problem-solving, and adapting systems to regulatory changes while ensuring system resilience.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using .NET backend and Angular/React frontend. Collaborate on requirements, implement RESTful APIs, optimize performance, debug, maintain documentation, support end-users, and work within CI/CD and DevOps workflows.

Design, develop, customize and integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM/CE solutions. Build entities, forms, workflows, plugins, reports and dashboards using CRM SDK, C#, JavaScript, ASP.NET and SQL. Troubleshoot issues, estimate implementation approaches, collaborate with stakeholders, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. Banking domain experience preferred.

Build and maintain backend-first features and integrations for Triptease's marketing channels. Work across the full stack (primarily backend), design scalable distributed systems, implement CI/CD on cloud platforms, collaborate closely with product teams, pair program, write tests (TDD), and contribute to squad strategy and product quality.