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Senior Software Engineer

Job in City of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Area, EH1, Scotland, UK
Listing for: PODFather
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-27
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Senior Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 200000 GBP Yearly GBP 150000.00 200000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: City of Edinburgh

Ready to level up your engineering career?

We’re on the lookout for an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team here s is your opportunity to make a big impact, not just through your own code, but by supporting and mentoring others to succeed.

If you love clean code, smart system design, and making things better every day, we want to hear from you.

Please note: if you wish to apply for this role you need to send a covering letter and a copy of your CV by email to .

What you’ll be doing
  • Lead from the front:
    Deliver elegant, scalable code and help guide technical decisions across your team.
  • Coach & mentor:
    Support junior and mid-level engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally.
  • Solve complex problems:
    Identify and tackle system bottlenecks, performance issues, and security risks.
  • Own your work:
    Take responsibility for the design, delivery, and quality of significant technical projects.
  • Drive improvement:
    Champion engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.
  • Collaborate widely:
    Work closely with Product, Dev Ops, QA, and Customer Success to build solutions that deliver real business value.
  • Support secure development:
    Apply secure coding practices and support our efforts to keep systems safe, stable, and resilient.
  • Champion continuous learning:
    Stay curious and continuously push for improvements in both systems and processes.
  • Databases: SQL
  • Version Control:
    Git
  • Testing:
    Automated testing across backend and frontend
  • CI/CD:
    Integrated pipelines to build, test, and deploy
  • Other: API development, system monitoring, cloud-native tooling
Required skills:

Successful applicants will have the following skills:

  • A strong grasp of software engineering principles and patterns.
  • Proven experience mentoring or supporting more junior engineers.
  • Confidence in designing scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
  • A proactive mindset; someone who spots opportunities for improvement and acts on them.
  • Clear, candid communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • A strong sense of ownership and pride in the work you deliver.
Nice to have skills:
  • Experience with legacy system refactoring or performance tuning.
  • Previous involvement in incident management or system debugging at scale.
  • An understanding of secure development practices and compliance requirements.
  • Passion for improving engineering culture through collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Why you’ll love working at Podfather

We’re a growing SaaS business with a big mission: to help businesses transform the way they manage deliveries, fleets, and field operations. You’ll join a supportive, collaborative team where your voice matters, your work is valued, and your development is taken seriously.

At Podfather, we’re guided by our core values; reliable, innovative, determined, collaborative, candid, and caring. You’ll see these in action every day in how we work together, solve problems, and support our customers.

What we offer
  • A friendly and supportive team culture
  • Flexible working hours and work-life balance
  • Ongoing personal development and mentoring
  • Regular team events and social activities
  • The chance to shape the future of a growing tech company
Sound like your kind of role?

We’d love to hear from you! Apply now and take the next step in your engineering career with Podfather.

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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