Senior Software Developer

AWD online; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AWD online is seeking a Senior Software Developer to blend hands-on engineering with technical leadership across UK applications. You will work with analysts and architects to translate requirements into secure, maintainable solutions aligned with platform standards.

You will help plan, review code, test, and ensure release readiness while promoting consistent engineering practices and improving tooling within a UK-focused scope.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in modern programming languages, frameworks and API development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical input during early exploration, clarify requirements with analysts and architecture colleagues, and identify UK technical considerations

Skills

Hands-on coding

API development

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Mentoring juniors

Microservices

Database development

Security best practices

Unit testing

Code reviews

Technical leadership

Tools

AWS

Azure

PostgreSQL

Job description

Senior Software Developer

Join a collaborative technology team where hands-on coding, technical leadership and continuous improvement come together. This opportunity suits someone with strong modern development, API, cloud, database and CI/CD capability who enjoys guiding other developers.

If you've also worked in the following roles, we'd also like to hear from you: Senior Software Engineer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, Senior Application Developer, Application Developer, Senior Systems Developer, Systems Developer, API Developer, Integration Developer

SALARY: £70,000 - £85,000 per annum + Benefits

LOCATION: Hybrid Working. Minimum 2 - 3 Days per Week from the Office in Hounslow, West London

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

WORKING HOURS: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

JOB OVERVIEW

This is an opportunity to combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership across UK applications and integrations. Working with analysts and architecture colleagues, the Senior Software Developer will help turn requirements into secure, maintainable solutions aligned with wider platform standards.

The Senior Software Developer will contribute to planning, code reviews, testing, release readiness and technical problem-solving while supporting consistent engineering practices across the team.

With scope to coach colleagues, improve tooling and strengthen development quality, the Senior Software Developer can make a visible contribution to reliable delivery and continuous improvement.

DUTIES

Your duties as the Senior Software Developer include:

• Discovery and Requirements: Provide technical input during early exploration, clarify requirements with analysts and architecture colleagues, and identify UK technical considerations
• Planning and Scoping: Contribute to estimates, delivery planning, technical risk identification, dependencies and solution validation
• Software Development: Design, build and maintain secure, high-quality applications, integrations and APIs aligned with coding standards
• Technical Guidance and Code Quality: Support developers through code reviews, quality gates, problem-solving, coaching, pairing and knowledge sharing
• Global Collaboration: Work with wider engineering teams where UK changes affect shared systems, following platform standards and integration patterns
• Release and BAU Transition: Support testing, documentation, technical validation, deployment, issue resolution and post-release stabilisation
• Engineering Improvement and Governance: Improve automation, tooling, testing and code quality while following security, audit and change-control processes
• Progress and Communication: Provide clear delivery updates, accelerate blockers early and contribute positively to a collaborative engineering culture

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

• Strong experience in modern programming languages, frameworks and API development
• Good understanding of AWS or Azure, microservices and integration patterns
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control and automated testing practices
• Skills in SQL, NoSQL or PostgreSQL database development and performance optimisation
• Familiarity with unit testing and integration testing approaches
• Ability to interpret architectural designs and apply technical standards to delivery
• Knowledge of secure coding principles, performance and maintainability best practice
• Strong engineering capability, attention to detail and a quality-focused approach
• Effective collaboration with developers, analysts, architects and wider technology teams
• Structured problem-solving, accountability and a continuous-improvement mindset
• Ability to mentor and support junior and intermediate developers

JOB REF: AWDO-P15313