Senior Software Engineer

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

3/31/2025

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, high-quality software solutions. You’ll leverage your expertise in AWS, Python, and AI technologies to deliver robust solutions while thriving in a fast-paced, iterative environment. You’ll work closely with other engineers, QA, product managers, and cross-squad teams to bring features to life and continuously improve our systems.

This is a hybrid role – three days per week in our Newcastle office.

What You’ll Do:

•  Design, develop, and maintain scalable solutions using Python, and AI-driven frameworks.
•  Architect, implement, and optimize cloud-based solutions on AWS, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.
•  Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional squads to understand requirements, define technical solutions, and deliver business value.
•  Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices for software development.
•  Build and integrate AI-powered features into our solutions to enhance product capabilities.
•  Lead by example in adopting an iterative development approach, releasing features incrementally and improving through user feedback.
•  Contribute to architecture and design decisions, mentoring junior engineers in the process.
•  Take ownership of projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals.
•  Drive improvements in code quality, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
•  Collaborate with QA engineers to build robust testing frameworks and deliver high-quality software.
  
  
  
  
  
  

What you’ll be working on:

We hire technically capable people so whilst we use the below technologies, we do not expect expert knowledge, you will be fully supported if you’re able to demonstrate a technical and passionate mindset to solving complex problems:

•  Python or Typescript for creating and maintaining APIs
•  Python for developing AI solutions
•  AWS – for most of our production infrastructure and data storage. We use a lot of Dynamo, OpenSearch and ElasticSearch
•  CDK for building infrastructure
  
  
  
  
  
  

You should apply if:

•  You have strong experience working with cloud providers (AWS preferred)
•  Experience with any of these languages is a plus: Python, NodeJS (typescript or javascript).
•  You have experience working on service-oriented solutions
•  You want to be involved in building solutions that can help products improve their offerings
•  You’re comfortable working in a team that is fast paced and focussed on delivery to enable a quick feedback loop
•  You’re passionate about owning your code from inception through to it living and breathing in production
•  You are passionate about clean code practices and can discuss architectural decisions.
•  You enjoy working in a squad with a focused work stream
•  You have experience in strongly typed languages