Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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 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.

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

Build and maintain the control planes, automation, and observability for a global fleet of machines. Develop production-quality Go services for provisioning, health checks, upgrades, and incident remediation. Architect high-throughput, low-latency networking, improve utilization and power-to-performance, and collaborate with product and platform teams on storage-aware scheduling and developer-facing features.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Design, build, test, release and maintain scalable software and distributed systems. Provide technical leadership on complex projects, review code, influence architecture, optimise deployment pipelines and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions.

Lead technical direction for Customer Platform systems, design and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions, champion engineering best practices (clean code, DevOps, observability), mentor senior engineers, drive operational excellence, and influence product and technology strategy across multiple teams.

Design, build, release and maintain scalable software for distributed systems. Provide technical leadership, review code, contribute to architecture, optimise deployment pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions.

Lead development and delivery of power system solutions, including WAMS and control products, customer-facing consulting, model-based and measurement-based analysis, technical support for sales, and publication of technical reports. Up to 25% travel for customer interaction and project meetings.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Lead and grow a high-performing full-stack engineering team to deliver unified web customer experiences. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, collaborate with product and delivery teams, and drive solution quality across React/.NET applications while supporting learning and professional development.