Software Engineer

SpeakUnique; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

SpeakUnique, based in Edinburgh, is seeking a Software Engineer to build, maintain and scale our health tech platform. You will work across web, mobile apps, and cloud services to deliver our voice technologies to patients and clinicians.

Join a small, multidisciplinary team that values scalable, reliable software, code quality, and thoughtful design. Autumn 2026 start; salary £40,000+ depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with initiative and accountability.
• Experience in full-stack development and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix and Bash scripting.
• Experience with Git/GitHub, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Interest in healthcare technology and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and scale web applications, admin platforms, and underlying system architectures.
• Debug, test, and deploy updates to frontend systems, backend APIs, and core voice-processing engines.
• Ensure seamless interoperation between cloud services, database layers, and user interface components.
• Implement robust unit/integration testing and manage deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate in agile engineering workflows (sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives).
• Exposure to cross-platform mobile app development.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Mobile app development

UI/UX accessibility

Automated testing

CI/CD pipelines

Git/GitHub

AWS

Linux/Unix

Cloud services

Agile

Tools

Git / GitHub

AWS

Bash scripting

Job description

Job Title: Software Engineer (full-time)

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: £40,000+ depending on experience and capability

Start Date: Autumn 2026

Spun out of the University of Edinburgh's world-leading Informatics institute, SpeakUnique

create health monitoring technology and provide personalised synthetic voices for patients.

We are developing scalable and potentially language-agnostic vocal biomarkers to measure

the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Combining deep speech science and AI

expertise with large, medically characterised voice datasets, SpeakUnique have demonstrated

strong performance in detecting and tracking diseases. The company is now moving towards

prospective clinical validation. In conjunction with this, we create state-of-the-art

personalised synthetic voices for individuals with medical conditions who have lost, will lose,

or have never had the ability to speak.

We are based in the heart of Edinburgh's AI and tech hub at the Bayes Centre.

About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our small multi-disciplinary team. You will play a key role in building, maintaining, and scaling the digital infrastructure, cloud platform, and web and mobile applications through which we deliver our voice technologies to end-users and clinical partners.

We are looking for someone who combines strong software engineering skills with initiative, sound judgement and accountability. You should be comfortable identifying problems as well as solving them, making pragmatic technical decisions and leading projects while working closely with colleagues across software development, speech science, clinical research, and product development.

The role combines core full-stack engineering with opportunities to contribute to mobile application development, accessible UI/UX, and automated testing and deployment. As a small and growing company, we value engineers who think beyond the immediate task: building software that is reliable and maintainable while making thoughtful choices about future scalability.

Success in this role means that you will improve the way we build technology: making our systems more robust, our development processes more effective, and our products easier and more reliable to use. The quality of your work will help us translate SpeakUnique's technology into meaningful improvements in patients’ lives and healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and scale web applications, admin platforms, and underlying system architectures.
• Debug, test, and deploy updates to frontend systems, backend APIs, and core voice-processing engines.
• Ensure seamless interoperation between cloud services, database layers, and user interface components.
• Implement robust unit/integration testing and manage deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate in agile engineering workflows (sprint planning, code reviews, and retrospectives).
• Strong foundation in computer science or software engineering principles.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and Bash scripting.
• Hands‑on experience with version control (Git / GitHub) and cloud services (AWS).
• Commitment to software quality, testing, and good documentation practices.
• Interest in healthcare technology and/or patient interactions (e.g. PPIE).
• Interest in accessibility and inclusive UI/UX design.
• Understanding of server management, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud auto‑scaling.
• Exposure to cross-platform mobile app development.
• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK – we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.