Senior Software Engineer

Accelero; City of Edinburgh; Sur place; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Accelero is seeking a senior software engineer to own the backend platform and API development, shaping technical direction and building a scalable product from the ground up.

You will work with .NET, React/Next.js, SQL, and cloud deployments, while mentoring teammates and translating complex decisions for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Seasoned backend software engineer with ownership of platforms and APIs.
• Experience steering architectural decisions and trade-offs.
• Strong communicating with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Own backend platform and API development end-to-end.
• Define and drive architectural decisions balancing today and scale.
• Explain technical choices to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop with .NET backend and React/Next.js frontend.
• Design SQL schemas and relational databases for scale.
• Build cloud-based deployments and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate external APIs and data services, improve codebase.

Connaissances

Backend development (.NET)

API design & integration

React/Next.js

SQL + relational DB design

Cloud deployments

CI/CD pipelines

Architectural decision making

Code quality & testing

Outils

Git

CI/CD tooling

Next.js

Description du poste

We're partnering with a growing B2B SaaS business that is hiring its first core in-house engineer. Their platform is live in Beta, and they now need a senior engineer to own it technically and lead its development into a commercial, scalable product. You'll have real influence over the platform's direction and over how the internal engineering function is built from the ground up.

• A hands‑on engineer who cares about the product as much as the code behind it
• Comfortable owning outcomes end to end, rather than picking up tickets
• Pragmatic in your architectural choices, balancing today's needs with future scale
• Confident explaining technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
• Backend and API development in modern .NET
• React, with Next.js experience preferred
• SQL and relational database design
• Building applications in the cloud
• Git, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
• A track record of building and maintaining production software
• Integrating external APIs and data services
• Taking on and improving an existing codebase