Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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

As a Software Engineer, you will build features, write maintainable Roblox Lua code, collaborate with teams, and enhance gameplay for millions of players.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will design and build scalable UI systems, collaboratively own features, and support production quality. Responsibilities include API design, debugging, and performance tuning.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Design, build, and scale Grafana Cloud Observability integrations and SDKs for cloud and Kubernetes environments. Implement middleware, dashboards, alerts, and documentation; drive features from ideation to production, participate in on-call rotations, collaborate with product, sales, and support, and contribute to open-source projects and upstream communities.

Work hands-on in a large, mature C++ (Windows/MFC) codebase to own and modernize features and subsystems, refactor legacy components, optimize performance-sensitive spectral algorithms, and collaborate with engineers and domain experts to ensure correctness, maintainability, and backward compatibility.

Senior full-stack product engineer owning large product areas end-to-end: research, write specs, design wireframes, implement features across frontend and backend, and collaborate closely with product, design, and infra. Focus on solving customer problems, building durable abstractions, and shipping high-quality, scalable software.

Senior full‑stack product engineer owning a large product area end-to-end: research customers, write specs and wireframes, design and implement features across frontend and backend, collaborate with product and design, and ship high-quality scalable software.

Lead design and implementation of scalable generative AI services and reusable components using Python. Drive architectural decisions, deploy containerized applications on Kubernetes (EKS), ensure scalability/observability and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and research teams to productionize LLM capabilities.

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.

Senior full‑stack engineer who ships production features quickly, owns technical projects, mentors peers, participates in code reviews, and collaborates across teams in a fully remote, US‑Eastern overlap environment.

Design, implement, and operate global cloud infrastructure for a containerized SaaS. Own end-to-end infrastructure projects, IaC automation, observability, on-call reliability, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, support, and sales.

As a Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain software solutions, collaborating with teams in an agile environment while ensuring quality and security in your code.

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

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 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.

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

Lead architecture for large-scale, high-availability distributed systems using Domain Driven Design. Provide project-embedded consultation, prioritize platform capabilities, drive CI/CD and cloud practices, and communicate technical strategy to stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and observable systems.

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.

The role involves developing, testing, and deploying Python microservices, solving complex technical problems, and contributing to architectural decisions. Engineers will work with a product team and ensure code quality through reviews and testing, while continuously learning and improving practices.

The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate in small teams to develop and maintain backend and frontend components, focusing on high-availability systems, writing tests, and continuous delivery on Google Cloud Platform.

The Senior Software Engineer leads project subsystems, mentors junior engineers, and designs scalable SaaS solutions while optimizing performance and ensuring code quality.

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.

Build and operate cloud-based Financial Services features end-to-end: design, implement, test, and deploy reliable services; ensure observability, security, and performance; lead complex deliveries; mentor engineers; participate in on-call support; and improve CI/CD and tooling.