Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

The role involves building production-grade software for AI-driven IT solutions, focusing on backend services, architecture, and direct customer engagement.

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

Work in a cross-functional agile team to design, develop, test and deploy full-stack solutions using React, Node.js, Java/TypeScript and cloud platforms. Mentor engineers, lead technical direction, solve complex problems, collaborate with QA, Product and Design, and promote engineering best practices.

Work on YDB distributed storage and database systems to maximize performance on modern and legacy hardware (NVMe, HDD, DPUs). Reengineer components for low-latency, high-throughput workloads, profile and debug production systems, and design resilient distributed storage primitives. Collaborate on incident resolution and production deployments to support Nebius cloud services.

Build and maintain a distributed, fault-tolerant, high-performance block and filesystem storage system. Work on virtualization (virtio-blk, virtio-fs, QEMU, vhost-user), high-throughput VM-to-storage networking (TCP, RoCEv2/RDMA), and core storage features like replication, consensus, self-healing, and data migration. Debug and optimize performance-critical I/O paths while writing reliable, maintainable code in a collaborative team environment.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and mobile SDKs for payment device integrations. Lead architecture, improve CI/CD and testing, mentor engineers, ensure security and compliance (PCI/OWASP), investigate performance issues, participate in on-call rotation after onboarding, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable payment solutions.

Lead analysis and resolution of system performance issues across Akamai's distributed Linux platform. Design and implement scalable software and tools for performance detection, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deploy efficient solutions.

Join the Guardian test team to design, execute and maintain manual and automated test suites for a critical call-taking and dispatch platform. Participate in Agile sprints, create detailed bug reports, support release and on-site customer testing, and collaborate with developers to ensure product quality. Drive automation efforts and help improve test strategies and processes.

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.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop features for Phantom's web platforms, lead new product initiatives, interface with users, and contribute to team culture.

The Sr. Software Engineer (FE) will lead the development of scalable frontend applications using React. Responsibilities include systems design, testing strategy, performance optimization, AI integration, and mentoring.

Ownership of backend Loyalty platform services: design, build, deploy, monitor and optimise scalable, distributed systems. Collaborate across teams to shape technical direction, improve developer experience, and maintain reliability, observability and operational excellence for customer-facing Sparks journeys.

Develop, optimize, and upstream hardware-accelerated video encode/decode/transcode pipelines on Intel graphics using Quick Sync, oneVPL/VPL, VA-API and D3D backends; engage with open-source communities and ISVs, perform performance and quality analyses, author patches and technical content, and advise Intel product teams to improve media solutions.

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.

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.

Build and evolve web platform capabilities — shared tooling, libraries, CI/CD and monorepo architecture — to improve developer productivity. Set technical direction, own architecture decisions, collaborate with teams, and mentor engineers.

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.

Senior backend engineer role building scalable, resilient Go-based backend services and APIs for cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP). Work with containers, Docker, Kubernetes, TDD, and performance optimisation while collaborating with client teams in a remote-first consultancy.

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

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.

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

The role involves architecting and developing cross-platform libraries in Rust and other languages, contributing to both mobile and web applications. Responsibilities include delivering complex features and ensuring a cohesive user experience across platforms.

The Senior Software Developer will design and implement solutions for clients, customize platforms, manage requirements, optimize performance, and conduct training support. Frequent client engagement is required.

As a Technical Lead, you'll oversee technical projects, mentor engineers, ensure high-quality solutions, and influence strategic decisions in a collaborative environment.