Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs using Java and Spring Boot. Write clean, tested code; work with relational and NoSQL databases; participate in code reviews; collaborate with senior engineers and product teams; and use Git-based CI/CD workflows to deliver features. The role includes mentorship, client collaboration, and occasional travel to client sites or company offices.

Build and maintain backend-focused full-stack systems in autonomous product-engineering squads. Lead technical decisions and substantial projects end to end, using TypeScript, Node.js, React, databases, cloud infrastructure, testing, continuous delivery, monitoring, and A/B testing. Work extensively with coding agents while applying robust verification, tests, specifications, and guardrails. Collaborate closely through pairing, product discovery, and customer-focused delivery on highly scaled, distributed systems.

Design and build scalable applications using Golang while supporting component development, data storage, performance optimization, testing, automation, CI/CD, and cloud deployments. Collaborate with distributed client teams, analyze requirements, contribute to agile delivery, maintain source-control practices, and support technical leaders. The role requires strong communication, code review, and collaborative software development skills.

Build and maintain full-stack features for secure, high-volume fintech and cryptocurrency transactions. Develop Golang and Java backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React/Next.js applications. Integrate third-party systems, implement OAuth 2.0 authentication, work with microservices, and ensure security, performance, reliability, and observability. Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, technical documentation, and end-to-end feature ownership in a fully remote environment.

Develop and enhance scalable, accessible frontend features using JavaScript and Vue.js. Write performant business logic, UI components, unit tests, and end-to-end tests. Own features throughout their lifecycle, contribute to prioritization and delivery, improve maintainability and performance, and mentor other engineers. Collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams in an Agile environment while supporting continuous learning and high-quality product development.

Design, build, operate, and maintain scalable distributed systems supporting CrowdStrike’s Intelligence pipelines. Gather requirements from analysts, develop processing and data integration systems, make autonomous architecture decisions, maintain Go and Python codebases, deploy production services, document solutions, train users, and communicate technical details effectively. The role requires independent execution in a geographically distributed team and includes opportunities to work with cloud platforms, APIs, web interfaces, malware analysis, and AI technologies.

Develop and lead full-stack user interface work for Elastic Fleet and Streams using TypeScript, React, and Node.js. Own complex projects end to end, make architecture and system-design decisions, establish coding standards, conduct code reviews, improve testing and deployment, and collaborate asynchronously with designers, product managers, and distributed engineering teams. Build scalable interfaces for observability, log ingestion, and real-time data workflows while mentoring teammates and promoting secure, maintainable software.

Design, build, and operate Chainguard’s container product, including registry features, image build pipelines, distribution systems, adoption tooling, and customer-facing services. Own projects end to end, make product trade-offs, collaborate with customers and product managers, improve observability and reliability, support on-call operations, and use AI coding agents safely. The role requires systems thinking across containers, registries, build infrastructure, and customer clusters in a remote-first environment.

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.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack web applications supporting AI-driven product discovery, search, recommendations, personalization, and consumer experiences. Lead frontend technical design, develop React and TypeScript components, integrate backend APIs and AI capabilities, optimize performance and reliability, and contribute to backend services. Mentor engineers, participate in technical reviews, and collaborate with product, design, data, AI, and engineering teams.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems supporting personalization, recommendations, search, and AI-driven consumer experiences. Partners with AI/ML, data, product, and engineering teams; integrates search and generative AI capabilities; improves performance, reliability, observability, security, and operational excellence. Leads technical delivery, mentors engineers, contributes to architecture reviews, and promotes engineering best practices.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for platform engineering teams. Designs and operates secure, scalable APIs, authentication and authorization services, onboarding systems, configuration management, and shared cloud-native capabilities. Leads architecture decisions, improves engineering quality, reliability, observability, testing, security, and delivery practices. Partners with product, engineering, SRE, and developer experience teams while mentoring engineers and setting technical standards across the organization.

Build and operate platform-level portal software across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include developing APIs and reusable React libraries, managing AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, improving performance, accessibility, security, and observability, and driving CI/CD automation. The role also involves technical leadership, architecture decisions, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring junior engineers, and balancing technical debt with feature delivery.

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.

Build and scale cloud-native full-stack applications for video security and analytics. Responsibilities include developing TypeScript web interfaces, designing resilient backend APIs and microservices, optimizing performance and state management, contributing to cloud architecture, automating software quality processes, participating in code reviews, and improving CI/CD pipelines. The role is hybrid in Edinburgh, requiring office attendance two days per week and travel under 10%.

Lead development of scalable, low-latency Maps API services and distributed ETL pipelines. Design systems, make architectural decisions, build and deploy microservices, monitor and troubleshoot production systems, and support continuous delivery. Mentor engineers through reviews and guidance, reduce technical debt, improve performance, document systems, and participate in on-call support. The role requires strong backend engineering experience, AWS expertise, mapping or geospatial product experience, and proficiency in Python and NodeJS.

Build libraries and product features for web, iOS, and Android platforms used across FanDuel Technology. Evaluate technical approaches, make pragmatic decisions, support Agile delivery, maintain high testing and quality standards, lead smaller projects, and contribute to design and prioritization. Coach engineers, participate in interviews, and help onboard team members while collaborating across the organization.

Develop and maintain Elasticsearch’s Inference API and plugin framework, integrating internal and external AI providers. Responsibilities include API and protocol design, streaming, asynchronous execution, rate limiting, configuration, billing integration, error handling, open-source contribution reviews, incident response, and comprehensive unit, REST, and rolling-upgrade testing. The role requires advanced Java expertise, concurrency and parallelism knowledge, API design skills, cross-functional collaboration, and autonomous work in a distributed team.

Designs, develops, and operates large-scale software-defined networking for NVIDIA AI Cloud environments. Responsibilities include building OVS/OVN control and data plane software, Kubernetes networking services, observability systems, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps infrastructure, and production reliability tooling. The role requires expertise in C, Go, distributed systems, cloud networking, Kubernetes CNIs, infrastructure automation, secure service development, and datacenter networking.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Build end-to-end software solutions and integrations for strategic customers. Partner closely with customer engineers and executives, design technical architectures and product features, apply ElevenLabs technologies, and solve complex problems through hands-on coding and implementation. The role requires strong Python and software development expertise, API integration knowledge, clear communication, and regular travel to customer sites.

Build and own automated testing frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, load and stress testing, and chaos engineering practices for a brokerage platform. Write primarily Go, integrate AI and LLM tooling into quality workflows, investigate application and Kubernetes failures, improve developer tooling, and mentor engineers on reliability and test coverage.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems for AI integration, build scalable backend services, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality systems that meet user needs.

Implement and ship Storage Encryption Everywhere in Firefox/Gecko, including schema migrations, encrypted data storage, integration and platform testing. Collaborate through code review, resolve specification questions, and shepherd the feature across Nightly, Beta, and Release. Diagnose and fix correctness, performance, and regression issues in a multithreaded browser-engine codebase while contributing openly through public bugs and upstream landing.