Senior Software Engineer
Summary
A Senior Software Engineer in London (hybrid) joins a technology company scaling an AI-powered enterprise platform, owning backend services end-to-end: designing scalable, distributed, cloud-native systems on AWS/GCP, coding mainly in Python with TypeScript, and shaping architecture and engineering standards. Salary £90,000–£100,000.
Senior Software Engineer
London (Hybrid) £90,000 - £100,000Here at Data Idols, we're working with an innovative technology business that is scaling a cutting-edge AI-powered platform used by enterprise clients globally. As the platform continues to grow, they're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping its future architecture, scalability and technical direction.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over architecture, technology decisions, product direction and engineering standards.
The OpportunityAs a Senior Software Engineer, you'll take ownership of key platform components from design through to deployment, optimisation and ongoing support. Working within a modern cloud-native environment, you'll help design, build and scale the backend services that power an AI-driven platform entering a significant growth phase and supporting an increasingly large enterprise customer base.
You'll be solving complex engineering challenges around scalability, performance and reliability, designing distributed systems and building resilient enterprise-grade software that forms the foundation of the platform.
This is a highly visible role where you'll collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps, influence architecture decisions and contribute to the long-term evolution of the platform. You'll be responsible for delivering high-quality, resilient software, improving engineering processes and tooling, and driving best practice across development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
Skills and Experience- Strong commercial experience developing backend software using Python, alongside experience with languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, C++ or similar
- Commercial experience with TypeScript
- Experience building and operating applications within AWS/GCP environments
- Strong understanding of scalable system design and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices
If you're an experienced Senior Software Engineer looking to solve complex technical challenges and help shape a modern cloud-native platform, we'd love to hear from you.