Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

We are seeking 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers to join Canonical's teams focused on open source software. Responsibilities include product roadmapping, coding in various languages, engaging with the community, and ensuring high-quality performance. Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record and experience with Linux.

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.

The Software Engineer will develop features end-to-end in a Ruby on Rails application, collaborating with technical and clinical teams while maintaining a focus on user outcomes and code quality.

The Software Test Engineer verifies software solutions within an agile team, focusing on quality assurance through testing, documentation, and collaboration with customers and developers. Responsibilities include executing test cases, identifying bugs, and participating in various acceptance testing phases.

Lead and own platform architecture across Infrahub ecosystem, implement high-impact architectural improvements, reduce technical debt, champion AI-first engineering, provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and leadership to ensure scalable, extensible systems.

Build and maintain pipelines and web scrapers to create a large case-law dataset, implement metadata extraction (citations, overruling/appeals), ensure scraper reliability, optimize core utilities, expose data via APIs/websockets, and benchmark/evaluate tasks.

Lead the Market Making Engineering team in developing real-time quoting systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and enhance software and processes.

Lead decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices, design and operate scalable distributed systems (Kafka, Temporal, OpenSearch, Memgraph), integrate network telemetry and third-party APIs, maintain Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure, enforce SLAs/SLOs and CI/CD quality, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive platform architecture and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement generative AI services, drive architectural standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance data solutions.

Lead architecture and technical direction across the full stack, solve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, deploy LLM-powered features into production, improve reliability and scale, mentor engineers, and make strategic build/buy and platform decisions that shape long-term product delivery.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the development of Mural's Canvas platform, ensuring high performance and reliability in real-time collaboration and document editing.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer ensures the reliability and performance of the Mural editor, collaborates on technical projects, and designs APIs for real-time collaboration. Responsibilities include product engineering, mentoring, and improving team processes while focusing on performance and developer experience.

Design, develop, and enhance Cority's software and client solutions. Lead technical decisions, produce production-ready code, mentor junior developers, collaborate with Product Owners, ensure CI/CD and testing automation, and provide support and maintenance for assigned functional areas.

Senior Software Engineer will own end-to-end delivery in a Learner Experience pod, work full-stack to shape and ship AI-first edtech features, coach engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and maintain high engineering standards (TDD, code review).

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient payment services and APIs for high-volume ecommerce. Own end-to-end features, improve observability and reliability, champion engineering best practices, and support production systems.

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient backend services and APIs for the full customer order lifecycle. Implement microservices, event-driven Kafka workflows, GraphQL/REST APIs, and low-latency solutions using distributed databases and caching. Collaborate with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to solve high-volume transactional commerce challenges.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend microservices and APIs for pricing and promotions. Implement Kafka-based event-driven architectures, GraphQL/REST APIs, and resilient low-latency solutions using MongoDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Own features from design through deployment and production support.

Lead and contribute to Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities. Define technical vision for indexing, retrieval, and relevance; research algorithms and data structures; collaborate cross-team to drive roadmap, mentor engineers, and implement scalable search features.

Lead design and implementation of vector similarity search features in Elasticsearch, improve relevance and performance, invent or apply algorithms/data structures, fix bugs, collaborate with a global team, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Lead the development of software solutions for a logistics platform, overseeing technical strategy, mentoring teams, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain ClickHouse's data ecosystem, focusing on Python integrations with orchestration and transformation tools. You'll engage with the open-source community while enhancing performance and reliability for data practitioners.

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.

Develop and optimize embedded software systems, mentor junior engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure software performance and reliability.

Develop and optimize embedded software for diverse hardware platforms, lead software architecture efforts, mentor junior engineers, and ensure quality through testing and collaboration with cross-functional teams.