Senior Software Engineer

The Citation Group; Wilmslow; Remoto; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

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Remote-first

Descrizione del lavoro

The Citation Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build a cyber security SaaS platform. This remote-first role is UK-based with occasional in-person events and travel.

You’ll work across the full stack, from React/GraphQL frontend to Django/Python backend, using AI as a core part of the workflow while maintaining a strong emphasis on security and quality. You’ll join a small, fast-moving team reporting to the Technical Lead, contributing to architecture decisions and collaborating

Competenze

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Full-stack development with React frontend and Django backend.
• Experience with REST/GraphQL APIs and async processing.
• Hands-on with AI-assisted workflows and evaluation.
• Ability to work independently in a small team.

Mansioni

• Design, build, and ship features across the full stack from React frontend to Django backend.
• Own features end-to-end: design, implement, test, deploy and monitor in production.
• Collaborate with product/design to turn ambiguous requirements into working software.
• Integrate with third‑party security and infra providers via REST APIs.
• Maintain and improve async processing pipelines powering scanning and reporting workloads.

Conoscenze

Full-stack

React

GraphQL

Django

Python

AWS

CI/CD

AI integration

Security awareness

Independent working

Strumenti

Celery

Redis

RabbitMQ

JWT/OAuth2/SAML

Graphene

PostgreSQL

AWS ECS

Descrizione del lavoro

Senior Software Engineer Role in Cyber Security SaaS Platform - Full Stack

Location: Remote (UK-based), with occasional in-person attendance required for company events

Type: Full-time Reports to: Technical Lead

About the Role

We're a small, fast-moving engineering team building a cyber security SaaS platform that gives customers device scanning, vulnerability patching, cyber risk assessments, and incident reporting - all in one place.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineerto join as an individual contributor and work across the full stack, from day one.

We're an AI-native engineering team. We expect you to use AI as a genuine part of how you design, build, test, and review software, and, just as importantly, to know when human judgment, input, and validation are essential. In a cyber security product, that judgment matters more than anywhere else.

This is a remote-first role. You will, however, be expected to attend occasional in-person events, such as hackathons, conferences, quarterly planning sessions and team get-togethers. These are a genuine part of how we build the team, not a box-ticking exercise, so a willingness to travel a few times a year matters.

This is not a role for someone who needs a lot of structure or supervision. We're a small, supportive team, but we don't have the bandwidth for extended hand-holding beyond a 4-week induction period. We need someone who can quickly understand our systems, ask the right questions early, and then get on with delivering - independently, and to a high standard.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and ship features across our full stack - from the React/GraphQL frontend to the Django/Python backend.


• Work directly with product and design to turn ambiguous requirements into working software.


• Own features end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production.


• Contribute to architecture and technical decisions as a senior voice on a small team - your input matters here.


• Integrate with third-party security and infrastructure providers via REST APIs.


• Maintain and improve async processing pipelines (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ) that power scanning and reporting workloads.


• Help evolve our authentication/authorization layer (JWT, SSO) as we scale.


• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code, and review others' code with the same bar.


• Use AI throughout your engineering workflow, from exploring problems and generating code to reviewing, building and testing solutions, while bringing a critical eye to AI-generated output and taking full responsibility for everything you ship.


• Contribute to and refine the AI agents, harnesses and automated workflows that improve how the team delivers.


• Help define where AI accelerates our work and where human review is non-negotiable, particularly for security-sensitive code, authentication and data handling.


• Assist with production support as needed.

What We're Looking For

Technical experience:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with genuine full-stack range.


• Frontend: React, Node.js, GraphQL (ideally Apollo), and comfort with WebSockets/real-time data.


• Backend: Python (Django preferred), PostgreSQL, and GraphQL API design (Graphene or similar).


• Experience with async task queues (Celery + Redis/RabbitMQ or equivalent).


• Solid understanding of REST API design and integration with third-party services.


• Experience with JWT-based auth and SSO (OAuth2/SAML/OIDC).


• Familiarity with containerized deployments on AWS (ECS or similar) and general AWS literacy.


• Comfortable working with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code concepts.


• Demonstrable experience using AI as a core part of your day-to-day engineering workflow, not just as a code completion tool. You can speak concretely about how AI has changed the way you work.


• Hands-on experience working with AI agents, harnesses or agentic workflows, with a clear understanding of what they can and cannot do reliably.


• Sound judgement about when a task can be delegated to AI and when human input and validation are of the utmost importance. You treat that judgement as a core engineering skill.


• You work with AI-generated output critically: you verify it, refine it, test it and own what ships.

Working style (equally important)

• Demonstrated ability to work independently- you can pick up a loosely defined problem, scope it, and drive it to completion without close supervision.


• Strong communicator who proactively flags blockers, risks, and decisions rather than waiting to be asked.


• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in a small team where process is lightweight and priorities can shift.


• A pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset - you care about the outcome, not just your ticket.


• You hold AI-assisted work to the same standard as anything else you produce: no shipping unverified output, ever.


• Prior experience in a startup, scale-up, or small-team environment is a strong plus.

Nice to have

• Background in cyber security, vulnerability management, or compliance/risk tooling.


• Experience with security scanning tools, patch management systems, or SIEM/reporting platforms.


• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architecture.


• Experience building AI agents, harnesses or automated workflows in a production context.


• Awareness of AI-specific security risks, such as prompt injection, data leakage into models and supply chain risks in AI tooling.

What You'll Get

• A meaningful, high-ownership role on a small team where your work directly shapes the product.


• Direct exposure to the full architecture - no silos, no red tape.


• A supportive team culture, with structured onboarding to set you up for independent success.


• Access to frontier AI tooling and a genuine mandate to shape how the team uses it.


• Remote-first working, with travel and expenses covered for in-person events like hackathons, conferences and quarterly planning.