Staff Software Engineer

Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Experience owning and operating production distributed systems end-to-end.
• Strong TypeScript or Python expertise.
• Deep Google Cloud Platform experience, or equivalent cloud platform knowledge.
• Proven track record of designing, building and operating large-scale systems.
• Experience improving engineering standards, quality processes, or software delivery practices.
• Experience leading incident response and writing post-incident reviews.
• Excellent system design and architecture capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven mentoring and technical leadership experience.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across multiple teams or business functions.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on engineering delivery.
• Cover letter.
• Completed questionnaire.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and expert guidance across our engineering teams.
• Support the Head of Development in establishing and maintaining engineering standards.
• Drive mandatory code review, release discipline, and deployment quality controls.
• Lead technical problem-solving across critical business systems.
• Own and influence architecture and technical design decisions across multiple platforms.
• Lead incident response activity and ensure corrective actions address root causes over individual failures.
• Pair with engineers across critical systems to reduce single points of failure.
• Mentor and develop engineers in progressing towards senior-level responsibilities.
• Partner with Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
• Identify and address technical debt, operational risk, and scalability constraints before they impact business performance.
• Contribute hands-on code where required.
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Support
• Python
• TypeScript
• AI
• DevOps
• OpenTelemetry
• Terraform

More:

We are DFYNE, a rapidly growing company looking for a Staff Software Engineer to become our most senior individual contributor within the engineering team. You will partner closely with our Head of Development to shape architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery, and operation of critical systems. We offer the opportunity to influence technology across one of the UKs fastest-growing companies, shape engineering standards from the ground up, and work alongside a team eager to learn and improve. This is a permanent, full-time role based in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom, within our digital team, with a starting salary from £85K per year and a high challenge, high reward culture.

last updated 37 week of 2026