Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of Coder’s agentic engineering systems. Build production software in Go, with React and TypeScript as needed, and evolve agent execution, tool use, context management, streaming, and long-running workflows. Make architectural decisions, lead complex projects, improve reliability and performance, collaborate with Product and Design, and mentor engineers. The role requires distributed systems expertise, LLM and agentic workflow experience, and familiarity with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.

Own and develop Unity’s Web runtime, optimizing build size, download, startup, and loading performance. Design and implement low-level improvements across C++, C#, JavaScript, WebAssembly, Emscripten, and LLVM, including multi-threading and progressive asset loading. Collaborate with platform teams, profile and debug across native and browser boundaries, mentor engineers, and establish code quality standards.

Design, build, and operate high-performance, event-driven microservices for marketing systems. Deliver scalable, secure Java services on AWS, use streaming (SNS/SQS or Kafka), containers and orchestration, implement IaC (Terraform), test thoroughly, mentor engineers, participate in design and on-call support, and improve system reliability and performance.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of the agentic platform, define shared service designs, partner with teams for reusable capabilities, provide technical leadership, and implement cost-management and evaluation pipelines.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop backend services for the agentic platform, integrating AI capabilities and ensuring system reliability, security, and developer usability.

Embed with product engineering squads to own production reliability for Grafana Cloud databases (Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope). Design and implement SLOs, automation, and fault-tolerant patterns; lead incident response and post-incident reviews; improve observability, alerting, and scalability for high-SLA multi-tenant environments; mentor engineers and influence product design for operability.

Execute scheduled, ad hoc, and release-milestone software tests; review test cases; report defects in issue-tracking systems; communicate status in standups; and collaborate with software test managers and development teams. The role requires knowledge of QA methodologies, black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing, strong communication and organization, independent and team-based work, and participation in planning and professional meetings.

Own, build and maintain scalable Loyalty platform services for Sparks. Deliver end-to-end features from design to deployment, improve developer experience, and support live services with reliability, observability, and operational excellence across distributed, cloud-native systems.

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.

Deploys, supports, and improves software products and services while maintaining customer satisfaction and SLA performance. Responsibilities include investigating and resolving tickets, managing delivery requirements, preparing estimates and quotes, coordinating with development teams, identifying product and support improvements, managing risks, protecting customer information, and adhering to GDPR and information security requirements. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to Leicester offices and customer sites.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native SaaS products using full-stack engineering practices. Drive platform modernization, API-first architecture, microservices, testing, deployment, and engineering excellence. Partner with Product and Design to solve customer problems, contribute to technical strategy, mentor engineers, and promote modern DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and automation practices.

The Lead Software Engineer will oversee development in abuse and fraud prevention, lead teams, design systems, and ensure high-quality outcomes.

Develop and maintain NedGraphics cloud products (OptiNedLink), build serverless AWS backends, design secure REST APIs and event-driven workflows, implement automated testing, optimize performance and scalability, enforce security best practices, integrate third-party APIs and ERP/PLM systems, and produce developer documentation and API specifications.

Develop and optimize performance-critical components of a low-latency trading platform (pricing engines, gateways, market-data, messaging). Own design, deployment, production support, observability, and architectural decisions. Mentor engineers, conduct reviews, and ensure reliability in cloud-native AWS and colocated environments.

Build and maintain low-latency trading infrastructure on Linux using modern C++ and Go. Work on pricing engines, connectivity, market-data pipelines, FIX integrations, messaging, observability, and production support. Own design, deployment, incident response, and continuous performance optimization.