Staff Software Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant commercial software engineering experience, operating at a senior/staff level.
• Comfort leading through influence: you can align teams, coach engineers, and drive decisions without relying on hierarchy.
• A strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• A bias for action paired with good judgement: you can move quickly while managing risk in production systems.
• Evidence of improving how teams work (quality, delivery, reliability, developer experience) and challenging the status quo constructively.
• Clear communicator who can tailor detail for different audiences: engineers, product partners, and leadership.
• Deep capability in at least one mainstream programming language and ecosystem, with the range to be effective in others.
• Practical experience designing and running cloud-native services, including infrastructure, deployment, and operational tooling.
• Confidence diagnosing complex issues in distributed systems (performance, reliability, tricky production defects).
• Strong grasp of data storage and access patterns, with hands-on experience across relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Comfort working with modern engineering practices: automated testing, code review, CI/CD, observability, and secure-by-design thinking.
• Curiosity about emerging approaches (including applied and agentic AI) and the ability to adopt them responsibly where they add value.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain production services and customer-facing features, from early discovery through to release and operation.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple squads: clarify goals, reduce ambiguity, and help teams converge on pragmatic solutions.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to turn outcomes into shippable increments, keeping communication crisp and expectations aligned.
• Set a high bar for engineering quality: architecture, code health, testing discipline, observability, and operational readiness.
• Work with reliability/operations colleagues to improve uptime, performance, incident response, and capacity planning.
• Own and improve delivery ways of working: estimation approaches, planning, prioritisation, and predictable execution against epics.
• Continuously modernise existing systems; simplify, automate, and remove friction to increase delivery speed.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for your domain, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution.
• Collaborate on cross-cutting initiatives such as security, data, and applied AI where they improve product outcomes.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• NoSQL
• Security
• Support

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We are an established Ed-Tech organization with a strong presence in Glasgow, offering an excellent opportunity to shape and build solutions used by students across the globe. We provide a supportive and inclusive work environment where diverse perspectives are valued. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality educational products while continuously improving our systems. This role offers a salary of £80,000 per annum and provides the flexibility of working 2-3 days a week on-site. We believe in the power of partnership to drive our success and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 31 week of 2026