Senior Staff Software Engineer

Spencer Scott - Technology Recruitment; London Borough of Croydon; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance for you and/

Educational allowance

Job summary

Spencer Scott - Technology Recruitment is supporting a global financial services organisation in hiring a Staff Software Engineer for a hybrid role. You will split time between the Surrey office and occasional visits to the London City office, contributing to a highly technical environment.

The role requires hands-on coding with cloud experience, and a focus on SDLC transformation, standardising CI/CD, and implementing AI-driven improvements while maintaining architectural integrity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience with coding and deployment.
• Experience with cloud-native services.
• Ability to drive SDLC transformation.
• Willingness to commute to Surrey/London for office based work.

Responsibilities

• Lead SDLC transformation across stacks and standardise CI/CD to production.
• Automate and accelerate the route from idea/code to production.
• Collaborate with architecture, platform/enablement and engineering leadership.
• Apply AI capabilities within product stacks and broader SDLC.

Skills

Software engineering

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

Technical leadership

Tools

C#

.NET

Azure

GitHub

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer for a global financial services organistaion. This will be a hybrid role working 2-3 days per week between the Company’s Surrey office with the odd visit into the London City office.

We’re looking for a Staff Level Software Engineer to take on this deeply technical, authoritative engineering position which combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution rather than operating purely at architecture or strategy level.

Remuneration: The Company will offer a starting salary up to £150,000 + numerous benefits including a high % pension scheme, high % annual bonus, private medical allowance for you and direct family members, educational and training allowance plus lots more! *Unfortunately, VISA Sponsorship is not available and we are looking for candidates that are able to commute to Surrey and London for office based work.

The core focus for this position is SDLC transformation. The biggest priorities are standardising and automating the route from idea/code through CI/CD to production, reducing friction across the engineering organisation, and incorporating AI/agentic engineering into that lifecycle.

Despite this being a leadership position, hands-on software engineering credibility is essential. Candidates need a genuine software engineering foundation, including experience writing code and deploying cloud native services. Recent experience can lean towards DevOps/platform work, but somebody with no real coding background would not fit this opportunity.

Technology adaptability matters more than one exact stack, candidates do not necessarily need to come directly from C#/.NET or Azure if they have demonstrated an ability to move across technologies.

This Staff Software Engineering position cuts across five autonomous product stacks. It needs to find reusable capabilities and engineering standards across them without eliminating stack autonomy. The person will work closely with architecture, platform/enablement and engineering leadership.

AI responsibility is complementary to the existing AI platform work. Rather than primarily building the central AI harness, this person is expected to help customise and implement capabilities within product stacks, while looking more broadly at the end-to-end SDLC.

This is not a backlog-execution role. The successful person is expected to identify problems, define solutions and execute them within broader technology strategy guardrails. Influence and people skills are critical. Technical credibility alone is insufficient. The individual needs to gain buy-in across senior engineering groups, evangelise better approaches, navigate potentially sensitive changes and collaborate effectively.

Technology Environment: The environment uses: C#, .NET / .NET Core, Microsoft Azure, GitHub (an increasingly strategic platform), Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation, and engineering analytics tooling including the LinearB pilot.

Spencer Scott Ltd is an equal opportunity Recruitment Agency, which means we do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. We celebrate diversity and are committed to create inclusive working environments for all our clients.