Top Software Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

The Software Test Engineer verifies software solutions within an agile team, focusing on quality assurance through testing, documentation, and collaboration with customers and developers. Responsibilities include executing test cases, identifying bugs, and participating in various acceptance testing phases.

Lead and own platform architecture across Infrahub ecosystem, implement high-impact architectural improvements, reduce technical debt, champion AI-first engineering, provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and leadership to ensure scalable, extensible systems.

Build and maintain pipelines and web scrapers to create a large case-law dataset, implement metadata extraction (citations, overruling/appeals), ensure scraper reliability, optimize core utilities, expose data via APIs/websockets, and benchmark/evaluate tasks.

Lead the Market Making Engineering team in developing real-time quoting systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and enhance software and processes.

Lead decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices, design and operate scalable distributed systems (Kafka, Temporal, OpenSearch, Memgraph), integrate network telemetry and third-party APIs, maintain Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure, enforce SLAs/SLOs and CI/CD quality, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive platform architecture and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement generative AI services, drive architectural standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance data solutions.

Lead architecture and technical direction across the full stack, solve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, deploy LLM-powered features into production, improve reliability and scale, mentor engineers, and make strategic build/buy and platform decisions that shape long-term product delivery.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer ensures the reliability and performance of the Mural editor, collaborates on technical projects, and designs APIs for real-time collaboration. Responsibilities include product engineering, mentoring, and improving team processes while focusing on performance and developer experience.

Senior Software Engineer will own end-to-end delivery in a Learner Experience pod, work full-stack to shape and ship AI-first edtech features, coach engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and maintain high engineering standards (TDD, code review).

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient payment services and APIs for high-volume ecommerce. Own end-to-end features, improve observability and reliability, champion engineering best practices, and support production systems.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend microservices and APIs for pricing and promotions. Implement Kafka-based event-driven architectures, GraphQL/REST APIs, and resilient low-latency solutions using MongoDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Own features from design through deployment and production support.

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient backend services and APIs for the full customer order lifecycle. Implement microservices, event-driven Kafka workflows, GraphQL/REST APIs, and low-latency solutions using distributed databases and caching. Collaborate with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to solve high-volume transactional commerce challenges.

Lead design and implementation of vector similarity search features in Elasticsearch, improve relevance and performance, invent or apply algorithms/data structures, fix bugs, collaborate with a global team, and write idiomatic modern Java.

Lead and contribute to Elasticsearch core search and indexing capabilities. Define technical vision for indexing, retrieval, and relevance; research algorithms and data structures; collaborate cross-team to drive roadmap, mentor engineers, and implement scalable search features.

Lead the development of software solutions for a logistics platform, overseeing technical strategy, mentoring teams, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Develop and optimize embedded software systems, mentor junior engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure software performance and reliability.

Develop and optimize embedded software for diverse hardware platforms, lead software architecture efforts, mentor junior engineers, and ensure quality through testing and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

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.

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

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend platforms for content and media, develop APIs, lead architecture design, and act as a technical authority.

Design and implement a distributed control plane for Confluent Cloud offerings, utilizing Kubernetes and various programming languages, while supporting the product lifecycle.

Design and evolve systems for Motion's infrastructure, focusing on reliable and secure operations across APIs, Linux systems, and cloud environments with a focus on hands-on coding and engineering judgment.

Lead architecture and strategy for Athena: build production-grade distributed systems that validate, deduplicate, and route vulnerability data; move prototypes to reliable, observable pipelines; set technical standards, scale the team, and partner on product and operational decisions.