Permanent full time
Build software used by thousands. Influence technical direction. Mentor others.
IRIS is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies and a major European provider of payroll and HR solutions. We’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Dataplan team.
This is a hands on senior role combining deep technical contribution with delivery ownership and mentoring responsibility.
You’ll help shape and scale a cloud-based payroll and HR platform serving thousands of customers.
The Role
You’ll spend the majority of your time writing high quality code while also:
* Driving end-to-end feature delivery
* Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritisation
* Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
* Leading best practice adoption (testing, CI/CD, observability)
* Contributing to architectural decisions
* Managing technical debt and platform health
* Supporting incident resolution and continuous improvement
Our Tech Stack
Core:
* PHP (Laravel)
* ReactJS
* JavaScript
* Relational databases
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Linux
Desirable:
* React Native
* MariaDB
* Jenkins
* GitLab
About You
* 5+ years’ experience in software engineering
* Strong experience building and shipping scalable web applications
* Comfortable in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery
* Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles
* Experience supporting production systems
* Passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards
Bonus points for experience in regulated sectors (finance, health, govtech) or working with AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
What You’ll Get
* Opportunity to influence technical direction
* Exposure to enterprise scale systems
* Clear progression opportunities
If you’re a senior engineer who enjoys owning delivery, shaping solutions, and developing others — we’d love to hear from you.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible