Senior Rust Engineer - Build Scalable Hospitality Tech

Nando's UK & IRE; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 91,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Nando's UK & IRE is seeking a Contract Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing technology team. You will own complex initiatives from design through production, shaping the technical direction of our digital platform while delivering exceptional customer experiences across the USA.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Technical Leads and Product Managers, and drive engineering excellence across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Expert proficiency in Rust, Golang or TypeScript.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and engineering best practices.
• Experience working across multiple programming languages and technology stacks.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, cloud-native development and production support.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery.
• Experience using AI effectively as part of the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver scalable, secure and resilient software solutions.
• Lead technical implementation of complex initiatives from discovery through production.
• Collaborate with engineers, Product Managers and Technical Leads to shape technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, coaching and constructive code reviews.
• Drive improvements to engineering standards, tooling and development practices.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical roadmaps.
• Build comprehensive automated testing and continuously improve test coverage.
• Own services in production, including monitoring, observability, alerting and operational excellence.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
• Influence technical decisions across multiple teams where appropriate.
• Champion performance, scalability, security and maintainability across the platform.
• Continuously explore emerging technologies, including AI-assisted software development, to improve engineering effectiveness.

Skills

Rust

Golang

TypeScript

Distributed systems

APIs

CI/CD

Agile

Mentoring

AI tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

IaC

Job description

Nando's UK & IRE is seeking a Contract Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing technology team. You will own complex initiatives from design through production, shaping the technical direction of our digital platform while delivering exceptional customer experiences across the USA.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with Technical Leads and Product Managers, and drive engineering excellence across multiple domains.