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 More: 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 17 week of 2026