NearTech Search
Senior Software Engineer
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Senior Software Engineer | Application Platform | Python | £75,000 - £85,000
Edinburgh / Remote
Are you a Senior Software Engineer who wants to shape a platform, not just implement against a defined design?
We’re looking for a Senior Application / Platform Engineer to join a small, senior team building and evolving a complex, data-driven technology platform. This is a hands-on senior role for someone who can confidently contribute to backend architecture, system design, and technical direction — not just delivery.
What you’ll be doing:
- Designing and building backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities
- Shaping backend architecture, service boundaries, and system design
- Contributing to ingestion pipelines, data workflows, and scalable processing patterns
- Making pragmatic production trade-offs around performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Designing application patterns around tenancy, permissions, and authentication
- Reviewing code and helping define engineering and AI-assisted development standards
- Working closely with product, data, and infrastructure teams
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What we’re looking for:
- Strong experience as a Senior Software Engineer in a product-led, SaaS, or platform environment
- Expert Python development experience
- Strong backend API design (FastAPI or similar)
- PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, and solid data modelling experience
- Experience designing scalable, production-grade systems
- Understanding of service-oriented architecture and system design principles
- Cloud experience (ideally AWS), plus Docker and CI/CD
- Strong technical judgement and ability to influence architecture decisions
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Nice to have:
- Experience with data-heavy or integration-heavy platforms
- Next.js / TypeScript exposure
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows
Tech stack:
Python | FastAPI | PostgreSQL | SQLAlchemy | AWS | Docker | Next.js | TypeScript
Why this role:
- Join a small, senior engineering team with real technical ownership
- Influence architecture and shape how the platform evolves
- Work on complex engineering problems with autonomy and trust
- Opportunity to grow into technical ownership of a core domain
- Remote-first with regular team meet-ups
Salary: £75,000 - £85,000
If you’re a Senior Engineer who wants to shape systems, not just build tickets, we’d love to hear from you. #Python #SeniorSoftwareEngineer #BackendEngineer #SoftwareArchitecture #AWS #FastAPI #PlatformEngineering
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills