Senior Staff Software Engineer
Summary
Leads distributed backend systems and engineering strategy for a large-scale e-commerce platform, focusing on scalability, architecture, and team mentorship while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Salary: £63,000 - 103,000 per year
Requirements:- Computer Science degree or equivalent commercial experience
- Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling distributed systems and microservices using Java or Python
- Experience working in large-scale, consumer-facing environments
- Deep expertise in modern software architecture, event-driven systems, API design, cloud-native development, CI/CD, automated testing practices, and Agile engineering methodologies
- Strong experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical strategy across an organisation
- Experience with AWS, TypeScript, React, Snowflake, Git, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, and Datadog would be advantageous
- Previous experience with Scala is desirable
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, complex third-party API integrations, e-commerce platforms, or applying AI technologies to improve engineering productivity would be beneficial
- Provide technical leadership and shape engineering strategy
- Lead the long-term architecture and technical strategy for distributed backend services
- Ensure systems remain highly available, secure, and capable of handling significant consumer traffic
- Drive initiatives from concept through to delivery
- Define engineering standards and best practices
- Remove technical bottlenecks
- Work closely with product, engineering managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, resilient solutions
- Guide critical technical discussions
- Mentor senior engineers
- Support hiring initiatives
- Help foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Copilot
- Datadog
- Git
- GitHub
- Support
- Java
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Python
- React
- Scala
- Snowflake
- TypeScript
- microservices
- DevOps
More:
We are a rapidly growing technology business building intelligent, large-scale digital platforms that deliver seamless customer experiences through modern, highly scalable technology. This is a fully remote-first role, with occasional travel to our Manchester office for collaboration, planning sessions, and leadership meetings. The position offers a salary of 140k - 180k per year plus excellent benefits, remote working, and stocks. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering-led environment and help us deliver software at global scale.
last updated 33 week of 2026