Senior Developer

Ada Mode; Southampton, Bristol, Manchester; Hybrid; AUD 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: £55k to £75k DOE

Competitive pension

33 days leave (including Bank Holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing contribution

Job summary

Ada Mode is looking for a Senior Developer to lead delivery of high-impact digital solutions and bespoke software for our customers. This is a senior position for someone who combines strong software engineering with leadership, commercial awareness, and the ability to build trusted client relationships.

You will lead multidisciplinary development teams, oversee the delivery of complex projects, and act as a technical lead for important clients.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, computer science, data science, or a related discipline.
• Experience building containerised apps and deploying on Azure with IaC.
• Experience implementing secure, enterprise-grade software with identity management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor multidisciplinary development teams delivering complex projects.
• Collaborate with customers to design, build and ship production systems.
• Serve as technical lead and translate customer needs into working software.

Skills

containerised applications

Azure services

serverless APIs

event-driven architectures

frontend deployments

security in enterprise

WebSockets and messaging

Python and FastAPI

Git and trunk-based workfl ow

Degree in engineering / CS / data

Education

Engineering / CS / data science degree

Tools

Azure

Git

Uvicorn

FastAPI

Job description

Role Summary Ada Mode is looking for a Senior Developer to take a leading role in delivering high-impact digital solutions and bespoke software for our customers. This is a senior position for someone who combines strong software engineering with leadership, commercial awareness, and the ability to build trusted client relationships. You will lead multidisciplinary development teams, oversee the delivery of complex projects, and act as a technical lead for important clients. You will be comfortable operating at multiple levels: providing technical leadership to project teams, working closely with senior client stakeholders, identifying new opportunities, and helping guide Ada Mode's growth as a business.

High Level View

• Collaborating directly with customers to design, build and ship production systems in regulated industrial environments
• Leading software development lifecycle activity across infrastructure, backend, data and ML operations, and deployment
• Translating ambiguous customer requirements into working software under operational constraints

Essential Skills And Experience

• Building & hardening containerised applications within on-premises and Azure based infrastructure environments
• Strong working knowledge & experience applying Azure services to application development / deployment (via IaC principles) - particularly for serverless APIs, event-driven architectures and frontend deployments (CDN)
• Creating secure & robust applications in enterprise environments (Oauth2.0, credential and identity management
• Navigate delivery of live + timeseries based data analysis pipelines alongside integration with WebSockets and messaging
• Knowledge of Python, FastAPI and UV-based package management Good experience of git and trunk-based workflow management
• Degree in engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, computer science, data science, or a related discipline.

Desirable Skills And Experience

• Full-stack infrastructure fluency (minus Frontend development): Linux, containers, python, SQL, cloud IAM
• Bias towards being able to ship features + pragmatic problem-solving skills
• Strong customer facing communication, comfortable explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Data science, ML and AI experience (and it's integration into wider applications)
• Experience working in energy, nuclear, maritime, manufacturing or similar industrial sector

Benefits

• Salary: £55k to £75k DOE
• Competitive pension
• 33 days leave (including Bank Holidays) + Christmas time off
• Flexible working arrangements
• Health and wellbeing contribution (e.g. Gym membership)

Location

This role can be based out of any of our Southampton, Bristol or Manchester offices. We offer a hybrid working model with the expectation that you attend the office >3days/week.

About Ada Mode

Ada Mode is an industrial technology and data science company whose aim is to improve the performance of complex industrial processes through artificial intelligence, engineering expertise and great design. Ada Mode helps clients by identifying opportunities in their data, designing a strategy and developing the solution. All of our solutions are bespoke to the client, built on technology developed in-house. Ada Mode currently works across the energy, utilities and manufacturing sectors. We are a small company with a strong order book and are looking for someone who shares our vision and has enthusiasm for growing and developing an exciting business.

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