Senior Software Engineer

Burns Sheehan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth UK tech business in London seeks a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to join their IaaS team. The role involves building tools for infrastructure workflows, collaborating on design with product leads, and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates have a strong background in Go, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. This position requires 4 days a week in the office and offers a salary of £115,000 - £130,000.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background, ideally writing Go (or .NET/Java).
• Solid experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud environments - GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable.
• A collaborative engineer who can mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Building tools and services that improve infrastructure workflows for engineering teams.
• Collaborating with senior engineers and product leads on design and implementation.
• Contributing to technical strategy, team mentoring, and engineering standards.
• Opportunity to work on Open-source projects focusing on AI agents.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Cloud environments (GCP preferred)

Collaboration

Mentoring

Job description

Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Platform (IaaS)

£115,000 - £130,000

London - 4 days a week in office (Paddington)

️ Go, Kubernetes, GCP

Here at Burns Sheehan, we're working with a well-established, high-growth UK tech business in the payments and financial services space. Processing billions in transactions annually and supporting nearly 1 in 5 card payments across the UK they're building out their core platform with a centralised infrastructure to support continued scale.

They're looking for x2 Engineers to join their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) team - focused on internal tooling, infrastructure provisioning, and improving the developer experience across the business.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building tools and services that improve infrastructure workflows for engineering teams
• Collaborating with senior engineers and product leads on design and implementation
• Contributing to technical strategy, team mentoring, and engineering standards
• Opportunity to work on Open-source projects focusing on AI agents

What They're Looking For:

• Strong software engineering background, ideally writing Go (or .NET/Java)
• Solid experience with Kubernetes
• Experience in cloud environments - GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable
• A collaborative engineer who can mentor others and contribute to team direction

If you're interested in building platform tools with real impact, in a stable and well-backed business with strong growth and a long-term tech roadmap, get in touch to find out more.

Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Platform (IaaS)

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.