Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

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.

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.

Lead technical direction and modernisation of customer platform systems; design, build and operate mission-critical services; drive DevOps, observability, performance and security; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote engineering excellence, automation, and open-source engagement.

Build and maintain internal Web Platform tooling and libraries used by M&S engineering teams. Own end-to-end platform features, improve CI/CD, monorepo health, testing, observability, and reliability. Mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and operate platform services with a production-first mindset.

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

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

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.

Build and scale backend systems for a large social game. Design microservices and distributed systems, implement backend best practices, ensure reliability, security, and performance, collaborate cross-functionally, drive DevOps and testing, and continuously improve processes.

Lead a small engineering team to deliver and operate large-scale Roblox game features. Drive technical planning, estimation, code quality, monitoring, releases, and mentorship while partnering cross-functionally to improve performance and player experience.

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.

Design, build and optimise Python-based AI applications and data storage solutions. Collaborate with clients and teams, enforce code quality, CI/CD, testing practices, and deliver scalable production systems across cloud environments while travelling to client sites.

As a Principal Engineer at M&S, you'll drive technical strategy, influence architecture, and mentor engineers while delivering on personalization, search, and machine learning features in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Build and own end-to-end cloud partner integrations: design architecture (auth, multi-tenancy, data movement), implement backend systems, run and be on-call for infrastructure/CI/deployments, work with external platforms and internal teams, and write design docs to set team technical direction.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop high-quality software solutions, mentor junior members, apply best practices in design and build, and contribute to technical decisions in a collaborative environment.

Develop reliable cloud services on the hyperscaler platform, contributing to cloud infrastructure, databases, and monitoring systems. Must write reliable code with team-oriented skills.

Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters, automate infrastructure, optimize performance, maintain blockchain nodes, and improve system reliability while collaborating with product teams.

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.

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.