Senior Staff Software Engineer

Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year

Requirements

• Computer Science degree or equivalent commercial experience
• Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems and microservices using Java or Python
• Experience working in large-scale, consumer-facing environments
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture, event-driven systems, API design, cloud-native development, CI/CD, automated testing practices, and Agile engineering methodologies
• Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical strategy across an organisation
• Experience with AWS, TypeScript, React, Snowflake, Git, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, and Datadog would be advantageous
• Previous experience with Scala is desirable
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, complex third-party API integrations, e-commerce platforms, or applying AI technologies to improve engineering productivity would be beneficial

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and shape engineering strategy
• Lead the long-term architecture and technical strategy for distributed backend services
• Ensure systems remain highly available, secure, and capable of handling significant consumer traffic
• Drive initiatives from concept through to delivery
• Define engineering standards and best practices
• Remove technical bottlenecks
• Work closely with product, engineering managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient solutions
• Guide critical technical discussions
• Mentor senior engineers
• Support hiring initiatives
• Help foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement

Technologies

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Datadog
• Git
• GitHub
• Support
• Java
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• React
• Scala
• Snowflake
• TypeScript
• microservices
• DevOps

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We are a rapidly growing technology business building intelligent, large-scale digital platforms that deliver seamless customer experiences through modern, highly scalable technology. This is a fully remote-first role, with occasional travel to our Manchester office for collaboration, planning sessions, and leadership meetings. The position offers a salary of 140k - 180k per year plus excellent benefits, remote working, and stocks. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering-led environment and help us deliver software at global scale.

last updated 33 week of 2026