Senior Staff Engineer - Architecture, Leadership & Scale

Factorial; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to partner with the Head of Development, shaping architecture, engineering standards and technical direction while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and operation of critical systems.

You will lead technical problem-solving, mentor engineers and help ensure scalable, reliable systems that support DFYNE’s growth, influencing decisions across multiple teams and ensuring excellence in delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Experience owning and operating production distributed systems end-to-end.
• Strong TypeScript or Python expertise.
• Deep Google Cloud Platform experience, or equivalent cloud platform knowledge.
• Proven track record of designing, building and operating large-scale systems.
• Improving engineering standards, quality processes or software delivery practices.
• Experience leading incident response and writing post-incident reviews.
• Excellent system design and architecture capabilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven mentoring and technical leadership experience.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across multiple teams or business functions.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across DFYNE’s engineering teams.
• Support the Head of Development in establishing and maintaining engineering standards.
• Drive mandatory code review, release discipline and deployment quality controls.
• Lead technical problem-solving across critical business systems.
• Own and influence architecture and technical design decisions across multiple platforms.
• Lead incident response activity, ensure corrective actions address root causes over individual failures.
• Pair with engineers across critical systems to reduce single points of failure.
• Mentor and develop engineers progressing towards senior-level responsibilities.
• Partner with Product, Operations and Engineering teams to align technical decisions with business objectives.
• Identify and address technical debt, operational risk and scalability constraints before they impact business performance.
• Contribute hands-on code where required.
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Cloud platforms (GCP)

System design

Leadership

Incident response

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Hands-on engineering

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to partner with the Head of Development, shaping architecture, engineering standards and technical direction while remaining hands-on in the design, delivery and operation of critical systems.

You will lead technical problem-solving, mentor engineers and help ensure scalable, reliable systems that support DFYNE’s growth, influencing decisions across multiple teams and ensuring excellence in delivery.