Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

The Senior II Software Engineer will design scalable storage solutions, solve complex issues, and improve distributed systems in an Agile environment.

Responsible for building and maintaining Android applications with AI features. Focus on performance, UX design, and collaboration with backend and ML engineers.

As an iOS Developer, you will build and maintain AI-powered iOS applications focusing on performance, reliability, and user trust. Collaborate with engineers to integrate AI features, design UX patterns, and optimize app performance.

The Software Engineer will develop and maintain cross-platform desktop applications, focusing on performance, reliability, and integration of AI features. Responsibilities include optimizing applications, managing local data, and ensuring stability on macOS and Windows.

Design, maintain, and extend abuse detection and prevention systems for GitLab's SaaS platform. Serve as a core maintainer of a Ruby on Rails monolith, build anomaly detection and agentic AI mitigations, automate abuse response, collaborate with peer engineering and security teams, and produce runbooks and operational documentation.

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.

Maintain and enhance core banking modules, implement change requests, support live clients, collaborate with Product and Parameterization SMEs, design, develop, test and document solutions, ensure quality and maintainability, own code components, and estimate work packages.

Build internal AI enablement tools, workflows, and guardrails to help engineers use coding agents safely and productively. Evaluate models and agents, partner with teams to apply AI, track adoption and impact, and provide documentation, training, and advocacy across the engineering organization.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

Lead Mark43's AI-enabled engineering initiative by designing and orchestrating multi-agent systems that plan, write, review, test, and deploy software. Write prompts, scaffolding, and tool integrations (VCS, test runners, internal APIs), evaluate agent performance, prototype LLM-based workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor teammates, and contribute to on-call rotations.

Design, build and maintain backend services for multiplayer games. Implement distributed systems, CI/CD, containerised microservices, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud infrastructure, and documentation. Collaborate on estimates, support teammates, and ensure high-quality deployments and operational standards.

Full-stack AI/ML Software Engineer to build HealthTech SaaS microservices, implement and integrate ML solutions, write high-quality code, author documentation, perform code reviews, and act as an SME on services and systems.

As a Software Engineer at Canonical, you will design, build, and ship software, improve packaging and distribution processes, and mentor colleagues while contributing to open source projects.

The Junior Ubuntu Software Engineer will design, build, and ship software, focusing on quality and resilience, while engaging with the open source community.

As a Software Engineer, you will design and develop applications, write clean code, engage in code reviews, optimize systems, and explore new technologies in a remote team.

Responsibilities include building and maintaining backend services for distributed applications, requiring functional programming with Scala and TypeScript, alongside client interactions.

Build and maintain the control planes, automation, and observability for a global fleet of machines. Develop production-quality Go services for provisioning, health checks, upgrades, and incident remediation. Architect high-throughput, low-latency networking, improve utilization and power-to-performance, and collaborate with product and platform teams on storage-aware scheduling and developer-facing features.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable distributed systems, improve developer experience, mentor peers, and lead incident responses.

Design, build, and maintain backend API and database services for a cloud PBX platform. Drive architecture, performance optimization, debugging, CI/CD and test automation, and collaborate with QA. Mentor peers and raise engineering standards while safely evolving high-load, networked systems.

Lead the development of native Windows desktop applications, ensuring performance, accessibility, and maintainability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

Lead development and delivery of power system solutions, including WAMS and control products, customer-facing consulting, model-based and measurement-based analysis, technical support for sales, and publication of technical reports. Up to 25% travel for customer interaction and project meetings.

Develop high-performance, cross-platform spatial analysis and visualization components using modern C++ and GPGPU technologies. Design, implement, test, profile, and debug software; collaborate in agile teams; and find and fix bugs and performance issues for mobile and desktop mapping SDKs.

Work with experienced engineers to develop and support live-service mobile game features. Fix bugs, write clean C# Unity code, collaborate with designers/QA, and learn using mentoring and AI-assisted tools.