Senior Software Engineer

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

Job summary

A high-growth tech business in the UK seeks a Senior / Staff Software Engineer to join their Infrastructure-as-a-Service team. This role involves developing tools to enhance infrastructure workflows and collaborating on design and implementation. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, proficiency in Go, and experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments. Committed to building impactful platform tools, the company boasts a supportive environment with significant growth and technological advancements.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background, ideally in Go, .NET or Java.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud environments, preferably GCP.

Responsibilities

• Building tools and services that improve infrastructure workflows.
• Collaborating with senior engineers and product leads.
• Contributing to technical strategy and team mentoring.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

GCP

Collaboration

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.