Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong, demonstrable experience and passion for backend development
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to deliver customer solutions
• Proficiency designing and architecting microservices, including distributed data management and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing and operating containerised software hosted by a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with cloud-based data storage, such as relational databases, NoSQL stores and data caches
• Experience writing strongly typed languages in the Java family, such as Java, Scala or Kotlin
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship, now or in the future; we are not currently sponsoring visas
• Experience with petabyte-scale, high-availability software systems would be beneficial
• Experience writing software for regulated industries would be beneficial

Responsibilities:

• Own complex technical work from start to finish, breaking down ambiguous problems, making trade-off decisions and shipping considered code that improves customer outcomes
• Contribute to architectural design and monitor the health of the systems you work on
• Identify and raise issues in requirements, design or code before they become problems
• Support colleagues through code reviews, pairing and helping less experienced engineers develop
• Collaborate with engineers in our UK hub and colleagues in India and the US
• Use AI tools throughout the engineering lifecycle while taking responsibility for the services your team runs in production

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Backend
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Docker
• GCP
• GraphQL
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Kotlin
• LESS
• NoSQL
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Scala
• Security
• Terraform
• gRPC
• microservices
• DevOps

More:

We are DISCO, shaping the future of litigation with technology and professional services for complex legal matters. Our cloud-native, AI-powered platform helps legal teams process, collect and search large volumes of diverse documents, with security, privacy and data-residency controls for sensitive material. Our global engineering organisation has more than 170 engineers across technical hubs in India, the UK and the US. We are expanding our UK hub, where you will join a team working to enhance our platform. Our stack includes AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kafka, Temporal, Datadog, Terraform, gRPC, GraphQL and Kotlin. We offer compensation of £90 to £114, a performance-related bonus and equity, remote working for those who live far from central London, equity RSU grants, a personalised growth plan, and health, financial, retirement and wellbeing benefits. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

last updated 40 week of 2026