Senior Software Engineer

GitHub; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AI-powered development seeks a senior software engineer to enhance collaboration experiences. The role involves designing and implementing scalable solutions, mentoring team members, and contributing to high-quality software delivery. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in software engineering and a passion for innovative problem-solving.

Benefits

Remote-first environment

Competitive pay

Growth opportunities

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering or related field.
• Proven experience in programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python.
• Minimum 3 years experience with databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship.

Skills

Software Engineering

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Technical Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's Degree in related field

Doctorate in related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Machine Learning frameworks

Databases (e.g., Kusto)

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

As a senior software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. You will design, prototype, implement, ship, and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• OR an Associate’s Degree in a related field plus 5+ years experience in software engineering with similar language experience.
• OR a Bachelor’s Degree plus 4+ years experience.
• OR a Master’s Degree plus 2+ years experience.
• OR Doctorate in a related field.
• OR equivalent experience.

• Minimum 3 years experience with databases, e.g., Kusto.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years experience in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Minimum 2 years experience with general-purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby).
• Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or CNCF concepts.
• Proficiency with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
• Strong understanding of data science principles.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth. Many apps and programs you use daily are built on GitHub. Our teams are dreamers, doers, pioneers, leading in AI, humanitarian efforts, and open source innovations. We provide a remote-first environment with competitive pay, growth opportunities, and flexible benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub embraces diversity and invites applications from all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other differences. We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities during the interview process.