Staff Software Engineer

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, UX, and SRE colleagues to define requirements and design new features, components, APIs, and microservices.
• Lead feature development from discovery through to production, including technical design, implementation, review, testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Make technical decisions that balance product needs, engineering quality, performance, security, and delivery constraints.
• Work on products offered to customers as either SaaS or on-premise software.
• Help raise engineering standards by mentoring others through code reviews, technical feedback, design discussions, pairing, and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within an agile delivery team.
• Participate in an on-call support rota for a multi-tenant SaaS product.
• Work remotely, with 1-2 days per month in an Edinburgh-based office.

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive hands-on development experience delivering major features for products with complex user workflows.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, balancing technical constraints, scope, customer needs, and business goals.
• Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate different parts of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code generation, testing, refactoring, and code review.
• Strong Java development experience, with a track record of applying object-oriented design principles to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable software.
• Experience with Spring or similar Java frameworks.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs, ideally within a microservice architecture.
• Familiarity with containerized deployment environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with build automation tools such as Maven or Gradle.

Experience in any of the following would be beneficial:

• Cassandra or other distributed NoSQL databases.
• Kafka or other event-driven messaging technologies.