X3 Senior / Principal Software Engineers – .NET, Azure, SQL 🌳🌳🌳
Scotland / UK Remote | AI-Driven SaaS Environment | £65,000–£85,000 + Benefits 🚀
High-growth, award-recognised SaaS organisation continuing significant investment in product and engineering capability.
This senior hire will play a key role in evolving a complex, data-rich platform used by enterprise and professional services customers.
The position combines hands-on engineering with technical influence — contributing to architectural direction, delivery standards, and long-term platform scalability.
🌳 The Opportunity
This role sits within a collaborative product engineering environment focused on:
🌳 Designing and delivering scalable back-end features end-to-end
🌳 Improving performance, reliability, and maintainability across a mature codebase
🌳 Supporting prioritisation, scoping, and technical planning
🌳 Analysing and instrumenting production systems
🌳 Contributing to best practice across engineering teams
🌳 Mentoring and raising technical standards
🌳 Navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving scale-up setting
This is suited to an experienced Senior or Principal-level engineer comfortable influencing both technical direction and delivery outcomes.
🌳 Technical Environment
Strong experience expected in:
🌳 .NET (Framework and/or Core)
🌳 Azure Cloud Platform
🌳 Azure SQL / MS SQL Server
🌳 Performance monitoring and instrumentation
🌳 Data-intensive systems
Additional exposure beneficial:
🌳 Search technologies (e.g. Lucene, Elastic, NoSQL)
🌳 Cloud-based search platforms
🌳 Data pipelines and large-scale datasets
🌳 SQL views and query optimisation
🌳 Candidate Profile
🌳 Senior-level back-end engineering background
🌳 Experience working within cloud-hosted SaaS environments
🌳 Comfortable working in data-heavy, high-volume systems
🌳 Strong problem decomposition and analytical skills
🌳 Confident providing technical leadership and mentoring
🌳 Collaborative communicator who can challenge constructively
🌳 Comfortable operating within evolving requirements
🌳 Package & Benefits
🌳 £65,000–£85000
🌳 Annual personal development budget
🌳 Generous holiday allowance (rising with tenure)
🌳 Paid sabbatical after long service
🌳 Private healthcare
🌳 Income protection and life cover
🌳 Matched pension
🌳 Paid volunteering allowance
🌳 Flexible hybrid working model (Scotland preferred, UK remote considered)
🌳 Working Model
🌳 Flexible 37.5-hour week
🌳 Hybrid or remote
🌳 Outcome-focused culture
🌳 Collaborative engineering environment
This is an opportunity to join a scaling SaaS organisation at a pivotal stage of growth, contributing to architectural evolution and technical excellence within a data-driven platform.
📌 Please ensure CVs highlight:
🌳 Senior back-end development experience
🌳 Azure cloud delivery
🌳 Performance or data-heavy system exposure
🌳 Technical leadership or mentoring experience