Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

As a Software Engineer, you will develop software models for hardware, enhance simulation tools, and support regression systems, improving developer workflows and diagnostics.

9-month full-time software engineering placement contributing to product development: implement features, improve scalability, performance, maintainability and internationalisation, participate across full feature lifecycle, learn from a mentor, and work across the stack (frontend, backend, testing, Azure). Ideal for someone starting a software career.

Build and maintain Clojure-based software to accelerate medical device regulatory approvals. Work cross-functionally to deliver high-quality safety assessments, ship features quickly, and support product growth. Remote-first, collaborative environment with occasional in-person weeks in London.

Build and operate Grafana Labs' bare-metal platform: provision storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters; manage cluster networking, scheduling, autoscaling; maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules; collaborate with application teams and participate in on-call rotation to ensure reliable, scalable platform operations.

Work as part of an agile team to design, develop, document and test frontend features for a mission-critical call-taking and dispatch platform. Build high-quality JavaScript/React/TypeScript user interfaces, collaborate with product and test engineers, follow modern development practices (SOLID, Git, pull requests), and support an expansion product while occasionally travelling to UK offices.

Join Uncountable's Implementations Engineering team to build software that integrates R&D lab instruments with their platform, working closely with customers and developing automated data pipelines.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support backend services (primarily in Go) and contribute to TypeScript frontends. Own full feature lifecycle, lead delivery, drive architecture and code quality, participate in reviews, mentor juniors, handle production support and on-call duties, and improve tooling and observability.

Lead a multidisciplinary team in AI-augmented software delivery, solving technical problems and fostering stakeholder relationships while embracing adaptability and continuous learning.

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.

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.

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.

Responsible for building scalable distributed systems, mentoring teammates, innovating on technical solutions, and improving team processes. Requires expertise in backend languages, especially Golang and Typescript.

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.

Lead end-to-end implementation of complex features, partner with Product and Design, mentor engineers, own quality and operability (CI/CD, testing, observability), make pragmatic architectural decisions, and apply AI tooling across the SDLC to improve productivity and product outcomes.