Senior Full-Stack Engineer – APIs, Azure & DevOps Lead

abrdn Inc.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days' annual leave

Employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Flexible benefits portal

Job summary

Aberdeen plc is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join its Digital Engineering team in the UK. You will shape platforms, applications and integrations powering our digital products.

The role demands leadership across design, development and production support, with a strong focus on secure, scalable, observable solutions. We value deep Azure expertise, advanced C#/.NET skills and a collaborative, delivery-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including maintainable design, testing, code review and continuous improvement.
• Extensive experience designing and securing APIs, including REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and service-to-service communication.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience covering application hosting, networking, monitoring and integration services.
• Advanced C# and .NET development skills, including asynchronous programming, dependency injection and automated testing.
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, distributed systems and secure application architecture.
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong SQL skills, including data modelling, performance optimisation and data-quality analysis.
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery within Agile teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and supporting team development through coaching and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of applications, APIs and integration solutions from design through to production support.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and guide delivery decisions aligned with architecture, security and resilience standards.
• Manage technical dependencies, risks and priorities while collaborating with stakeholders across engineering and delivery teams.
• Design, build and support secure, observable APIs and integrations across Aberdeen and third-party platforms.
• Develop reliable data processing and reconciliation capabilities with strong controls, traceability and data quality standards.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and engineering automation using GitHub and modern tooling.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure and compliant with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement through operational excellence, incident management and root cause analysis.

Skills

C#/.NET

Azure cloud

API design

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Agile delivery

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Terraform

OpenAPI

Azure Data Factory

Playwright

Job description

Aberdeen plc is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join its Digital Engineering team in the UK. You will shape platforms, applications and integrations powering our digital products.

The role demands leadership across design, development and production support, with a strong focus on secure, scalable, observable solutions. We value deep Azure expertise, advanced C#/.NET skills and a collaborative, delivery-driven mindset.