Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and maintains production embedded Linux software for vehicle systems. Responsibilities include modern C/C++ and Qt/QML development, Yocto platform maintenance, Python automation, CI/CD, automated testing, debugging across hardware and software boundaries, release management, architecture, documentation, and production support. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and supplier teams.

Architects and develops enterprise Change Data Capture and data integration software across mainframe and distributed platforms. Processes transaction logs, analyzes database internals and binary formats, reverse engineers legacy systems, and resolves performance, reliability, compatibility, and data-integrity issues. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, collaborates on customer escalations, and supports critical production incidents and releases.

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.

Build and maintain scalable, reliable agentic AI systems for biomedical research, integrating LLMs, tool-calling, and data platforms. Drive technical decisions, optimize analytical workflows, deploy agents on the data platform, mentor teammates, and participate in on-call rotation to ensure performance, security, and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and operate resilient Java and Spring Boot backend services for inventory availability, order promising, and fulfillment. Develop event-driven Kafka integrations, concurrency and consistency controls, caching strategies, observability, and graceful degradation mechanisms. Own services from design through production, optimize performance and reliability, integrate with commerce and enterprise platforms, conduct code reviews, document architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

Own quality strategy, automated testing, and test execution for omnichannel commerce capabilities. Build scalable API, integration, contract, event-driven, and end-to-end test frameworks; manage complex test data; integrate quality gates and regression testing into CI/CD pipelines; define quality metrics; validate order, inventory, fulfillment, returns, and post-purchase workflows; and mentor engineers on quality practices and automation.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; lead architecture decisions; solve production problems; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentor engineers across teams.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; solve production problems; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentor engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; lead architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve engineering quality, testing, security, and observability; and mentor engineers across teams.

Build and scale production inference infrastructure and customer-facing APIs for AssemblyAI’s voice AI models. Partner with researchers and applied engineers to productionize model capabilities, transforming prototypes into reliable, low-latency, well-documented products. Contribute across backend services, SDKs, inference systems, and internal tooling while incorporating customer feedback into product and research direction.

Develop and maintain the backend ecosystem for the Alta Video Management System, focusing on cloud-based distributed systems and coding quality.

Lead the design and implementation of core authentication infrastructure at Phantom, focusing on secure authentication systems, secrets management, and API integrations.

As a Software Engineer - L3 Support, you will resolve complex Ubuntu-related issues, collaborate with teams, and participate in upstream communities to drive bug fixes and improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you will resolve complex customer issues related to Ubuntu and open source software, participate in upstream communities, and develop and review code across multiple layers of the software stack.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.

Lead the architecture and hands-on development of reliable AI-powered email applications across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design orchestration, state management, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling for long-running workflows. Build production APIs, improve observability and reliability, make trade-offs involving latency, cost, security, and user experience, and lead a small senior engineering team through technical reviews, mentorship, and execution.

Leads application engineering for an AI-powered email product across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Designs reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Builds APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences, makes architectural trade-offs, establishes observability and operational excellence, and leads a small senior engineering team through mentorship, design reviews, and code reviews. Partners with ML leadership to deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable production systems.

Lead application engineering for an AI-powered email product across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design reliable AI workflows involving orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Build APIs connecting AI systems to product experiences, make architecture and scalability decisions, mentor senior engineers, and establish strong observability, monitoring, testing, security, and operational practices. Partner with ML leadership to ship fast, reliable, maintainable product experiences.

Leads technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; solves production issues; improves engineering quality, reliability, security, testing, and observability; and mentors engineers across teams.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; solve production issues; and improve testing, security, observability, and development practices. The role also leads critical initiatives, mentors engineers, and translates ambiguous product challenges into clear technical plans.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write production code; lead architecture decisions; solve complex production problems; improve engineering quality, testing, security, and observability; drive critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across teams.

Build and operate production systems for Coder’s agentic development experience. Develop Go-based backend systems, contribute to React and TypeScript applications, improve agent execution and context management, and create reliable integrations across models, tools, workspaces, and developer infrastructure. Own projects through rollout, enhance system reliability and performance, participate in technical reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver useful AI-powered developer experiences.

Develop backend software for the Guardian emergency call-taking and dispatch platform using C# and .NET. Responsibilities include solution design, development, technical documentation, automated testing, and collaboration within an agile delivery team alongside product managers and test engineers. The role requires high-quality code, modern software engineering practices, and participation in code reviews and Git-based workflows. It is remote with occasional travel to Motorola offices and requires NPPV3 clearance or eligibility for clearance.

Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for Nango’s open-source developer infrastructure platform. Build APIs, SDKs, UIs, and runtime systems, optimize performance and reliability, solve integration challenges with customers, shape the roadmap, and maintain the open-source repository. The role requires strong ownership, product thinking, developer empathy, communication, and autonomy in a remote-first startup environment.