Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the development of Apache Iceberg, enhancing data handling capabilities for large-scale systems, collaborating with teams, and architecting solutions for modern data lakes.

Lead design and implementation of high-performance agent runtimes, backend services, and self-hosted model/agent infrastructure. Build low-latency execution systems, real-time data pipelines, telemetry loops, CI/CD for zero-downtime deployments, and ensure fleet reliability on AWS/EKS.

Lead the architecture of Tide's agentic platform, ensuring reliable, scalable services. Collaborate across teams to design APIs and integration standards, focusing on developer experience and analytics.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop backend services for Tide's AI platform, integrate components, ensure reliability, and shape AI engineering patterns.

Design, build, and optimize high-performance AI infrastructure systems to support intelligent agents, ensuring reliability and scalability for millions of users.

Lead the development of Runware's serverless platform by building core systems for AI workload management and providing technical guidance to the team.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement systems for AI integration, build scalable backend services, and mentor team members, ensuring high-quality systems that meet user needs.

This role offers graduates a chance to start their careers as Software Developers, focusing on building applications, enhancing skills, and gaining permanent placements post-training.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and manage end-to-end data pipelines, ensuring data quality and governance while collaborating across Java and Python systems, including event schema design and AI tooling.

Develop and enhance features for EnrollWise, contribute to a scalable software architecture, review code, collaborate on design and technical feasibility, and maintain software quality.

Join a remote EU-based talent pipeline as a senior C++ engineer working on a custom engine or UE5. Maintain and develop game features and tools, collaborate across disciplines, and debug, profile, and optimize code for Windows PC strategy games.

Build and launch backend features and services using Python/Flask and other technologies, own projects end-to-end, identify high-impact improvements, collaborate with product and design, ensure quality, testing, monitoring, and production reliability for services at scale.

Lead technical direction and deliver large-scale authentication systems (OAuth/OIDC/SAML/LDAP/SCIM) in Go. Drive cross-team architecture, mentor senior engineers, ensure low-latency multi-tenant reliability, and represent Grafana in the identity community.

As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer focused on SRE, you will optimize performance, manage infrastructure with code, drive observability, and collaborate with teams to enhance system reliability and efficiency.

Lead the development of backend platforms for national security and defence clients, leveraging cloud technologies and Agile methodologies, while ensuring operational responsibility for services and collaborating in cross-functional teams.

Lead application and cloud/container security across the SDLC: threat modeling, architecture reviews, security code reviews, DevSecOps automation, vulnerability management for Kubernetes/container images, incident response, detection engineering, and compliance with OWASP/NIST/ISO standards.

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software for automated document-processing products. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into product improvements, contribute to architecture and technology decisions, conduct code reviews, optimize scalability and performance, lead major technical initiatives, mentor teammates, and improve engineering practices.

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.

Develop and maintain automated test suites for a scientific software platform using Cypress, TypeScript, Cucumber, and Playwright. Own quality for an application module, design functional, regression, and integration tests, investigate defects, document bugs in JIRA, verify fixes, and maintain reliable CI test pipelines. Collaborate with developers, scientists, and DevOps engineers while performing manual exploratory testing and expanding API-level coverage.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain scalable software solutions using Node.js and TypeScript, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring product reliability.

The Senior Backend Developer will drive impact by collaborating with stakeholders, design and develop high-quality software, shape architecture, and lead technical direction while promoting innovation and collaboration within the team.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead backend and IoT engineering for Defence projects, ensuring high-quality software delivery while mentoring engineers and implementing robust CI/CD processes.

Lead the design and development of complex Rails features, mentor junior engineers, define technical direction, and ensure high-quality code while collaborating with stakeholders.

Build and maintain backend-first features and integrations for Triptease's marketing channels. Work across the full stack (primarily backend), design scalable distributed systems, implement CI/CD on cloud platforms, collaborate closely with product teams, pair program, write tests (TDD), and contribute to squad strategy and product quality.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using .NET backend and Angular/React frontend. Collaborate on requirements, implement RESTful APIs, optimize performance, debug, maintain documentation, support end-users, and work within CI/CD and DevOps workflows.