Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Platform (Remote/UK)

The Citation Group; Wilmslow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Citation Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (C#, .Net) in Wilmslow with remote options within the UK. You will help transform a significant platform, moving to CI/CD, team-owned services, and AI-integrated delivery.

You will influence architectural decisions and raise engineering craft across the squad. You will work with a Tech Lead to push for secure, testable, high-quality code and contribute to AI-powered workflows, observability, and DevOps maturity.

Qualifications

• Solid experience as a software engineer delivering complex features on production systems.
• Strong full-stack capability across backend and frontend with databases and cloud infra.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Security fundamentals: secure coding, dependency management, and vulnerability awareness.
• Experience evolving systems, including refactoring and improving existing codebases.
• Experience using AI as part of engineering workflow, not just a code completion tool.
• Ability to verify and refine AI-generated output before shipping.

Responsibilities

• Write production-quality code daily across the full stack (backend, frontend, infra).
• Own features from design to deployment, delivering working software in increments.
• Contribute to architectural discussions with practical input and trade-offs.
• Run spikes and PoCs to explore approaches before committing.
• Manage technical debt to keep the codebase clean and maintainable.
• Decompose shared services into team-owned components and deliver them with care.
• Support CI/CD adoption, automated tests, and trunk-based development.
• Build with observability in mind: instrumentation, logging, monitoring.

Skills

Full-stack development

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI in engineering

Security basics

Software craftsmanship

Refactoring

Code reviews

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Job description

The Citation Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (C#, .Net) in Wilmslow with remote options within the UK. You will help transform a significant platform, moving to CI/CD, team-owned services, and AI-integrated delivery.

You will influence architectural decisions and raise engineering craft across the squad. You will work with a Tech Lead to push for secure, testable, high-quality code and contribute to AI-powered workflows, observability, and DevOps maturity.