Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

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

Join a cross-functional agile team to design and develop RESTful Java APIs, integrate third-party services, mentor engineers, remove delivery roadblocks, and define technical implementations while advocating best engineering practices.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud collaboration platform and integrations. Build serverless AWS backends, secure REST APIs and event-driven workflows, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, implement automated tests, and produce technical documentation for third-party and internal integrations.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud products and OptiNedLink, build serverless AWS backends, implement secure REST APIs and event-driven workflows, create integrations with third-party systems, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, and produce developer-facing documentation and automated tests.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud platform (OptiNedLink). Build serverless AWS backends, secure/versioned REST APIs and event-driven workflows, integrate third-party/ERP/PLM systems, implement automated testing, optimize performance, enforce security best practices, and produce technical documentation.

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.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and support systems for regulatory reporting, ensuring stability and performance while collaborating in an Agile environment.

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.

The Software Engineer will design, develop, and support the MEMX Trading system software, focusing on production support during US evening hours.

Lead technical design and delivery of supply chain and warehouse software at scale. Drive architecture, DevOps, observability, reliability and performance practices; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote clean code and engineering excellence across teams; support recruitment and outreach.

Lead development of robust, scalable backend systems and integrations. Provide technical leadership, architecture and design, code reviews, mentorship, and operational excellence. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders, implement observability and testing best practices, and propose innovative solutions to improve performance, security, and customer service.

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.

Design and evolve systems for Motion's infrastructure, focusing on reliable and secure operations across APIs, Linux systems, and cloud environments with a focus on hands-on coding and engineering judgment.

Design, build, and ship production-ready software; decompose ambiguous problems into system architectures; modernise legacy systems and develop greenfield features; own technical decisions, testing, observability, and documentation; collaborate with product and design and ensure operational readiness.

Lead architecture and strategy for Athena: build production-grade distributed systems that validate, deduplicate, and route vulnerability data; move prototypes to reliable, observable pipelines; set technical standards, scale the team, and partner on product and operational decisions.

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

Build and maintain scalable cloud-based data management and processing systems for biomedical research. Own platform components end-to-end, drive architecture and standards, improve CI/CD, observability, security, performance, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call incident response.

Design, implement, and scale robust Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto. Build low-latency distributed systems using RPC, Kafka, and event-driven patterns. Write testable, high-performance asynchronous network code, debug across OS/network/application stacks, own systems end-to-end, and mentor other engineers while collaborating with product teams.

Lead design, build, release, and maintain large-scale software solutions. Provide technical leadership, architecture, code review, mentorship, and operational stability. Drive CI/CD, DevOps practices, observability, and technical roadmap while collaborating with product and delivery teams.

Lead the Modeling Platform team, setting technical strategy and overseeing the evolution of a scalable distributed computation architecture while mentoring engineers and enhancing team capabilities.

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains embedded software for various hardware platforms, ensuring integration and reliability while leading software architecture efforts and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead backend platform development for National Security clients using cloud technologies, ensuring operational responsibility and agile practices.

As a Frontend Engineer, you'll craft user interfaces, write engineering requirement documents, build test suites, and integrate analytics for product success.