Build software used by thousands. Influence technical direction. Mentor others.
IRIS is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies and a major European provider of payroll and HR solutions. We’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Dataplan team.
This is a hands on senior role combining deep technical contribution with delivery ownership and mentoring responsibility.
You’ll help shape and scale a cloud-based payroll and HR platform serving thousands of customers.
The Role
You’ll spend the majority of your time writing high quality code while also:
- Driving end-to-end feature delivery
- Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritisation
- Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
- Leading best practice adoption (testing, CI/CD, observability)
- Contributing to architectural decisions
- Managing technical debt and platform health
- Supporting incident resolution and continuous improvement
Core:
- PHP (Laravel)
- ReactJS
- Relational databases
- Docker
- React Native
- MariaDB
- Jenkins
- GitLab
About You
- 5+ years’ experience in software engineering
- Strong experience building and shipping scalable web applications
- Comfortable in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles
- Experience supporting production systems
- Passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards
Bonus points for experience in regulated sectors (finance, health, govtech) or working with AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
What You’ll Get
- Opportunity to influence technical direction
- Exposure to enterprise scale systems
- Clear progression opportunities
If you’re a senior engineer who enjoys owning delivery, shaping solutions, and developing others — we’d love to hear from you.
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