Staff Software Engineer – Continuity

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

Responsibilities

  • Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions, taking a lead on what good coding practices look like.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance on complex projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and follow engineering best practice.
  • Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software solutions or 3rd party integrations, whilst partnering with colleagues in Architecture.
  • Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our area, working with key business stakeholders, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.
  • Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.
  • Operational Excellence: Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.
  • Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.

Qualifications

  • Proven track record in full stack engineering developing high-performing, robust UI and backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation and scalability.
  • Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
  • Good understanding of automated testing and performance testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both back-end and front-end technologies.
  • Proven hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps practices at scale across enterprise-wide applications.
  • Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, SQL, JavaScript) and tools (e.g. Git, CI/CD pipelines).
  • Expertise in designing and implementing scalable applications on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on performance and security.
  • Clear communicator who can convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, fostering collaboration and understanding.
  • Possess a mentorship mindset with a genuine desire to share knowledge and empower others to reach their full potential.
  • Good knowledge of AI/ML technologies and GenAI tools such as Copilot, with hands-on experience implementing GenAI tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

  • full stack engineering
  • UI development
  • backend systems
  • optimisation
  • scalability
  • automated testing
  • performance testing
  • DevSecOps
  • programming languages
  • cloud infrastructure

Soft Skills

  • technical leadership
  • mentorship
  • clear communication
  • collaboration
  • continuous improvement
  • coaching
  • expert guidance
  • problem-solving
  • adaptability
  • innovation

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Posted: July 11th, 2026