Top Software Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; solve production issues; and improve testing, security, observability, and development practices. The role also leads critical initiatives, mentors engineers, and translates ambiguous product challenges into clear technical plans.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write production code; lead architecture decisions; solve complex production problems; improve engineering quality, testing, security, and observability; drive critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across teams.

Manage and scale AWS EKS Kubernetes clusters, automate infrastructure with Terraform or Pulumi, optimize system performance, maintain blockchain nodes, scale databases handling terabytes of data, and improve reliability through monitoring and observability. Collaborate with backend and product teams to support feature development and platform scalability.

Architect and develop production-grade business systems across Salesforce, NetSuite, and integrated enterprise platforms. Build quoting, subscription, and entitlement engines; create automation pipelines and API integrations; establish architecture, security, documentation, and code-review standards; and translate commercial policies into scalable technical solutions. The role partners with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, and product stakeholders while maintaining system reliability, auditability, observability, and production readiness.

Build scalable Java backend systems using Spring, REST APIs, microservices, databases, messaging, Docker, and cloud platforms. Lead architecture and technical design, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, drive delivery, improve automation, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient software with measurable business value.

Lead technical design and delivery of supply chain and warehouse software at scale. Drive architecture, DevOps, observability, reliability and performance practices; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote clean code and engineering excellence across teams; support recruitment and outreach.

Lead technical direction and modernise international commerce platforms. Design scalable integrations for product, pricing, fulfilment, partner/marketplace flows. Promote engineering excellence, DevOps ownership, observability, and mentor teams while aligning technology strategy with business goals.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Build innovative software products in the Special Projects Division addressing public health, agriculture, education, and aid-related challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include designing software architectures, developing on UNIX-based platforms, participating in code reviews, using disciplined version control, collaborating with teams, and potentially applying Django, React, Android, or PyTorch. The role may involve travel to Africa to understand local contexts.

Design, build, and evolve customer-facing backend services and public APIs supporting multiple Chainguard products. Own features end-to-end, create technical design documents, collaborate with Product and Experience teams, and contribute to a fast-paced, product-driven roadmap. Build reliable, observable cloud-native services and shared platform capabilities, including authentication and notifications.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for financial crime detection across WorldRemit and Sendwave. Responsibilities include developing alerting, screening, risk-rating, and agentic AI investigation workflows; integrating third-party compliance platforms; improving observability, reliability, and auditability; collaborating with compliance teams; reviewing designs and code; and participating in on-call production support. The role requires strong Java and Spring expertise, event-driven systems experience, and familiarity with cloud and infrastructure tooling.

Design and implement large-scale browser-based rendering infrastructure to execute and extract structured content from JS-heavy web apps. Improve rendering quality, performance, cost, and throughput at internet scale and productionize rendering research.

Build, launch, and maintain gameplay features for Driving Empire on Roblox. Responsibilities include writing performant Roblox Lua code, designing scalable systems, translating product requirements into technical tasks, collaborating with designers and artists, monitoring live features, improving reliability and workflows, participating in code reviews, and playtesting to improve player experience.

Research, design, and develop algorithms and software systems for AI-driven CNC machining, including toolpath optimization, cutting strategies, and automated CAM workflows. Collaborate with manufacturing experts, data scientists, and software engineers to convert advanced concepts into reliable production software. The role emphasizes high-performance C++ development, computational geometry, numerical methods, optimization, and modern software engineering practices.

Develop software for CloudNC’s AI-powered CAM Assist product, collaborating with computer science and manufacturing experts to solve complex machining and toolpath-generation challenges. The role requires C++ development and experience with UI frameworks such as TypeScript, Angular, or React. Employees will receive training in factory operations and software capabilities; manufacturing experience is not required.

Design and develop clean, maintainable software for automated document-processing products. Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into product improvements, conduct code reviews, guide technical direction, mentor colleagues, and improve engineering practices. The role uses Golang, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and GitHub CI/CD while emphasizing product ownership, clean architecture, software craftsmanship, and technical communication.

Test mobile software applications, create and execute release test cases, evaluate requirements, maintain automated test suites, analyze quality metrics and defects, and advocate for release standards. Collaborate with project managers, developers, stakeholders, and deployment teams to communicate bugs and improve testing practices. Periodically attend customer premises to verify software usage in operational environments.

Build and own React Native features for Kraken’s consumer mobile app, from product discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. Partner with Product and Design to create responsive, trustworthy financial experiences using dynamic or real-time data. Guide development for a new Asian-market app, including regional UX, connectivity restrictions, vendors, and telemetry. Contribute to architecture, performance, reliability, code reviews, and product engineering standards.

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.

Design and maintain scalable backend systems using Kotlin and Spring Boot. Lead architecture and technical design, develop secure REST APIs, improve engineering quality through testing and automation, and guide delivery across multiple initiatives. Mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, and promote resilient, maintainable software practices.

Lead design, development and maintenance of scalable, secure international pricing platforms and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion DevSecOps and automated testing, mentor engineers, and drive observability, incident management and operational excellence across cloud-native systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop robust software solutions, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and innovate within the commercial trading domain.

Designs, builds, and improves Mural’s Canvas platform, including real-time collaboration, shared document editing, spatial interactions, rendering performance, asset management, APIs, and AI-enabled capabilities. Owns initiatives from problem definition through measurement, designs scalable and reliable systems, optimizes performance, and contributes to technical reviews, mentoring, documentation, and engineering practices. Partners with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver maintainable, high-quality editor experiences.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.