Senior Software Engineer

Edinburgh City Football Club Limited.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £80,000

Hybrid work (2 days inLondon/Edinburgh

26 days leave + bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Competitive pension

Discretionary bonus scheme

Cycle to work & EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

Bright Purple is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer to join a hybrid UK team, with two days per week in London or Edinburgh. You will own a high-throughput, real-time data engine built with C#, .NET and Azure, contributing to AI-powered development and modern data analytics.

As part of a collaborative group, you’ll drive architectural evolution, own design decisions, and promote engineering best practices while supporting cloud operations and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Strong C# and .NET experience in high-performance real-time systems.
• Experience with Azure cloud and DevOps practices.
• Experience with real-time data processing and analytics.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the platform architecture to improve performance, scalability and resilience.
• Own technical design decisions and stay hands-on through the lifecycle from concept to delivery.
• Champion engineering best practices, clean structure, testability and documentation.
• Support cloud operations across Microsoft Azure, including App Services and pipelines.
• Stay ahead of emerging tools and AI-assisted development workflows.

Skills

C#/.NET

Real-time systems

Agile environments

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Communication

AI-assisted coding tools

Tools

Git

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tools

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - London or Edinburgh

One of the leading players in the UK and European Energy & Renewables tech sector is hiring for an AI-first Software Engineer to join its core product development team. As a part of this high performing and collaborative group of c.10-15, you will own one of the most powerful, real-time data engines in the entire sector, recognised as the gold standard for decision making and trading

As the team are embracing AI-powered development, they are looking for prior experience in Cursor, Github CoPilot, and other coding tools.

If high-throughput, high-transaction, low-latency, real-time technologies excite you - this is about as good as it gets!

The Benefits:

• Salary up to £80,000
• Hybrid working with 2 days a week in their London or Edinburgh office
• 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Competitive pension
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Cycle to work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes

The Role:

AI-first, back-end focused, building in C#, .NET and Azure. using events-driven architecture for powerful, real-time data analytics.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Driving the evolution of the platform's architecture, spotting opportunities to improve performance, scalability and resilience
• Owning technical design decisions while staying hands-on through the full development lifecycle, from concept to delivery
• Championing engineering best practice, clean structure, testability and solid documentation
• Supporting cloud operations across Microsoft Azure, including App Services, CI/CD pipelines and Azure Front Door
• Staying ahead of the curve on emerging tools and techniques, including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows

Skills Required

• Strong C# and .NET expertise, with a track record of designing high-performance, real-time systems
• Solid database experience
• Confidence using AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows day to day
• Familiarity with Agile environments and collaborative code review
• Git and Azure DevOps knowledge
• A strong communicator, able to translate technical detail for non-technical audiences

Interested?

This is a rare chance to combine the stability of an established UK consultancy with the pace and purpose of a growing technology business, all while making a tangible impact on the energy transition. If you're a senior engineer ready to shape technology that genuinely matters, we'd love to hear from you.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.