Top Engineering Jobs in Glasgow

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Lead engineering teams responsible for Oracle HCM and enterprise SaaS platforms supporting recruitment, talent, learning, helpdesk, and core HR. Own technical roadmaps, partner with product and architecture leaders, drive SaaS innovation and AI opportunities, and ensure platform reliability, security, supportability, and operational excellence. The role requires deep Oracle HCM expertise, strong people leadership, stakeholder management, and experience modernizing complex business-critical technology platforms.

Three-year graduate software engineering programme involving engineering solution design and development, discipline-specific training, product work, professional networking, and potential rotations or secondment. Candidates will work with experienced engineers across the engineering lifecycle while developing technical skills and competencies. The role requires a STEM bachelor's degree or expected degree in software engineering, computer science, embedded systems, robotics, mechatronics, electrical and electronic engineering, or a related subject.

Three-year graduate systems engineering programme involving engineering solution design and development, structured technical training, product work, professional development, and potential rotation across business units or external secondment. Candidates will build engineering skills while working with experienced engineers on customer-focused products in the defence, aerospace, space, and digital security sectors.

Join Thales’ three-year Engineering Development Programme as a graduate DevOps engineer. You will develop engineering solutions, work on new and existing products, complete structured technical and transversal training, and potentially rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment. The role requires a STEM degree, offers hybrid working, and involves UK Government security screening, including BPSS and Security Clearance (SC).

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

Manages the Web Platform engineering team, overseeing technical vision, reusable pipelines, tooling, frameworks, developer experience, reliability, and production operations. Leads senior engineers, recruitment, retention, technical strategy, vendor partnerships, OKRs, and engineering excellence. The role combines hands-on software engineering with people leadership, platform ownership, product thinking, and cross-functional influence across customer- and colleague-facing applications.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Build and maintain payments infrastructure, including usage tracking, pricing, billing, payment providers, and stream-processing services. Collaborate with Finance, Tax, Growth, Sales, and engineering teams to support compliance, reporting, experiments, and customer payments. Plan migrations, debug complex production billing issues, and safely evolve live systems handling money. Requires Python expertise, backend development experience, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and strong problem-solving ability.

Lead and scale distributed engineering teams, drive technical best practices, manage project timelines and risks, oversee hiring and career development, and ensure scalable, secure, maintainable architectures while collaborating with product and stakeholders.

Leads one engineering team while co-owning the product roadmap with Product. Responsible for delivery predictability, technical quality, architecture, SLOs, operational health, hiring, budgeting, and engineer development. The role remains hands-on through code reading, pull-request reviews, pairing, and technical trade-off decisions. It also drives AI tooling adoption and ensures the team ships reliably while maintaining strong engineering growth and product alignment.

AECOM is seeking geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and tunnel engineers at all career levels for UK-based ground engineering and tunnelling projects. Responsibilities include delivering geotechnical, structural, and tunnel engineering work from concept through operation, applying relevant design codes and standards, supporting project delivery, and providing technical leadership appropriate to experience. Candidates need a relevant engineering or geology degree, technical design knowledge, leadership experience appropriate to level, willingness to travel across the UK, and a clean driving licence.

Design and validate electrical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create schematics, PCB layouts, circuit designs, calculations, simulations, technical documentation, and reproducible reference solutions. Review AI-generated engineering work for accuracy, identify design faults and inconsistencies, and establish objective evaluation criteria. The role requires practical expertise in circuit theory, electronics development, PCB design, simulation tools, and electrical systems, along with strong technical communication skills.

Design and validate realistic mechanical engineering tasks for AI training and evaluation. Create and review CAD models, assemblies, technical drawings, specifications, calculations, and simulation outputs. Assess mechanical designs, materials, tolerances, manufacturing constraints, and engineering feasibility. Develop traceable reference solutions, identify errors and failure risks, review AI-generated technical work, and establish objective evaluation criteria.

Owns the technical vision and roadmap for organization-wide CI/CD and release infrastructure. Identifies and remediates performance bottlenecks and supply-chain security risks, designs scalable release gates, directs engineers through complex multi-quarter projects, and leads incident response. The role requires hands-on debugging across the pipeline stack, cross-organizational influence, technical communication, mentorship, code and design reviews, and setting engineering standards.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable commercial trading and planning solutions. Provide technical direction, ensure operational stability, enforce engineering standards, manage vendors, and drive delivery excellence across cloud-native systems.

Paid 10-week engineering internship involving real projects across proposals, engineering, design, manufacturing, customer solutions, regulations, ISO standards, safety, and environmental practices. Interns collaborate with experienced engineers, may visit customer sites, and spend three weeks in the USA. Candidates must be engineering students entering their final year, live within commuting distance, hold a full driving licence and passport, and be able to travel internationally.

Leads the engineering organization responsible for modeling, rendering, simulation, distributed computing, and quality. Owns platform roadmap execution, manages engineering managers, accelerates AI-assisted software development, improves delivery and testing processes, and balances zero-to-one product development with ongoing releases. Partners with Product and represents platform engineering to company leadership. Requires deep technical credibility and a proven record of organizational transformation, product delivery, and engineering leadership.

Lead and mentor two software teams and one data team while shaping engineering culture, product strategy, roadmaps, architecture, and workstream priorities. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, participate in code reviews, and contribute high-quality code. The role requires strong Rust, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, testing, API, database, cloud architecture, and agile development expertise.

Leads and remains hands-on in engineering execution, owning code, architecture, quality, reliability, technical standards, and delivery. Hires and develops the engineering team, manages performance, improves AI-enabled productivity, and partners with Product and external technical vendors. Establishes practices for testing, incident response, post-mortems, on-call, and financial accuracy while scaling the team from six to approximately 15–20 engineers.

Lead the engineering function on a remote consulting mission by setting technical direction, managing and mentoring engineers, driving the roadmap, overseeing complex delivery, improving engineering practices, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role requires hands-on technical leadership, architectural judgment, agile expertise, and evaluation of emerging technologies including cloud, AI, and blockchain.