Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will enhance CI/CD pipelines, improve developer experience, and productionize AI tooling while mentoring teammates and collaborating with engineering leaders.

The Senior Software Engineer will focus on backend development, designing and maintaining APIs and services, collaborating on features, and enhancing integrations at Motion.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and architect scalable software solutions, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and improve engineering practices within the team.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop AI tools integrated with game engines and services, focusing on C++ and automation for game development.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you will develop and maintain web services for navigation solutions, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with the team.

Lead technical direction and modernise international commerce platforms. Design scalable integrations for product, pricing, fulfilment, partner/marketplace flows. Promote engineering excellence, DevOps ownership, observability, and mentor teams while aligning technology strategy with business goals.

As a Senior SDET, you will enhance testing practices, improve CI pipelines, mentor engineers, and ensure platform reliability through comprehensive testing strategies.

Senior Software Engineer will be a founding member of a Learner Experience pod owning end-to-end delivery: discovery, solution design, production, iteration and outcome measurement. Work across full stack with strong front-end/UX focus, use AI-assisted development, uphold TDD and code review standards, coach peers, and collaborate closely with non-technical stakeholders to shape impactful edtech features.

Lead design and delivery of order management and promising services: build resilient APIs and integrations, own features end-to-end, improve observability and operational excellence, mentor engineers, and shape technical direction to enable accurate delivery promises and scalable fulfilment.

Design, build, and operate backend platform capabilities for content and media: federated GraphQL, event-driven pipelines, APIs, automation, and developer/editor tooling. Lead architecture, deliver production-quality code, and enable teams via scalable, reliable services.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend platforms for content and media, develop APIs, lead architecture design, and act as a technical authority.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and delivery of robust order management solutions, ensuring reliability and scalability, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams.

Develop and maintain the macOS endpoint client for an endpoint security product. Design features, shape architecture, review code (including agentic AI-generated code), improve build/deploy/test automation, resolve customer issues, and track macOS/security technologies while mentoring peers and owning product areas.

Lead Bloomreach Professional Services integrations: design and implement solutions using Java and modern frontend frameworks, validate scope, assess technical risks, make architectural decisions, improve DXP add-ons and documentation, coach peers, and occasionally travel to EMEA clients.

Join a cross-functional agile team to design, build and test full-stack solutions using React, Node.js, Java/REST APIs and cloud platforms. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, solve complex problems, collaborate with product/QA/design, and promote engineering best practices while staying current with emerging technologies.

Lead design and implement new Elasticsearch search features, improve relevance and vector search (HNSW/IVF), fix bugs, collaborate across a distributed team, contribute to Lucene, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Design, build and deliver scalable features across front-end and back-end systems. Improve performance, maintainability and test coverage. Mentor teammates, collaborate with product and implementation teams, and participate in the full feature lifecycle from scoping to deployment and ongoing enhancements.

Design and develop software solutions from scratch, collaborating on government projects, and participating in the software development lifecycle.

Build and operate a managed PostgreSQL service for AI workloads: develop control plane and lifecycle automation in Go, tune PostgreSQL internals and ecosystem tooling, create migration tooling, integrate vector search, run SRE practices (SLOs, observability, incident response), and work directly with customers on architecture and escalations.

Lead backend and edge/IoT engineering, implementing scalable solutions and mentoring team members while collaborating with Data Science teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based software solutions. Collaborate across the SDLC with stakeholders and development teams, integrate DevOps and CI/CD practices, support operational tasks, ensure security and performance, drive feature development, conduct code reviews, and stay current with emerging technologies.

Work on an agile team building and maintaining mission-critical call-taking and dispatch software. Develop, document, and test features across frontend and backend using modern practices, collaborate with product and test engineers, and lead development for expansion products. Obtain required UK security vetting.

Lead and technically own software products: design, build, test, and maintain scalable, secure C#/.NET applications. Provide technical leadership, architecture, estimation, CI/CD delivery, and coach/develop junior engineers while interacting with customers and mentoring the team.

Lead and grow an SDET team building reliable, scalable cloud storage solutions. Provide technical leadership, design and review architectures, plan sprints, implement deterministic functional and non-functional test suites in CI/CD/CT pipelines, collaborate on product specs, hire and mentor engineers, and continuously improve processes and systems.

Lead technical teams to design, build, test, and maintain modern, scalable, secure software. Provide technical ownership for product architecture, estimation, planning and requirements. Coach and develop junior staff, drive CI/CD practices, troubleshoot live applications, and liaise with customers as the teams technical leader.