Software Engineer

AI Chopping Block; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

BLP Digital in London is seeking a software engineer to join our growing team building automated document processing products with Golang, MySQL, and Kubernetes. You will own features end-to-end, mentor teammates, and help shape product direction while delivering clean code and scalable systems.

Join a fast-growing Swiss-founded SaaS scale-up expanding into the UK, USA, and beyond, delivering enterprise-grade automation to Fortune 500 clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of software development principles, Clean Code and Clean Architecture.
• Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements and code.
• Entrepreneurial mindset aligning work with team and company goals.
• Ownership: take responsibility for technical work, product, and team.
• Team-oriented: support team goals and collaboration.
• Ability to simplify complex systems and communicate ideas effectively.

Responsibilities

• Drive impact by translating stakeholder requirements into product improvements.
• Build clean, maintainable software and participate in code reviews.
• Lead technical direction for major initiatives and mentor teammates.
• Promote innovation, collaboration, and continuous process improvement.
• Work with Golang, MySQL, Docker on Kubernetes in our cloud infrastructure and GitHub CI/CD.

Skills

Product thinking

Software craftsmanship

Ownership

Team collaboration

Abstraction & communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Proactive problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Golang

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub CI/CD

Job description

Join BLP Digital — The #1 Solution for ERP Automation

BLP Digital is redefining ERP automation with agentic AI. Spun out of ETH Zurich and HSG, we build AI agents that automate finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more for some of the world's largest enterprises. We solve real enterprise problems with cutting-edge technology and a strong sense of ownership.

Our solution is live in 40+ countries, used by 550+ customers, and automates 70,000+ processes every day, including for Fortune 500 companies. As one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, our success stems from deep expertise in technology and business processes, delivering a product with outstanding product-market fit, proven by a growing global customer base.

We've recently welcomed Goldman Sachs Alternatives as a growth investor, and we're now expanding into the UK and USA. We are just getting started. Ready to build the future? Join BLP Digital today.

About the role

At blp, we create cutting-edge products for automated document processing. We have dedicated engineering teams for each product. The teams fully own their product, that means we understand the business problem that our product solves and own the roadmap how the product evolves.

We have a strong sense of end-to-end ownership and a desire to have direct impact by solving real world problems. As a team, we also strive to own and shape how we work together and how we grow, both as individuals and as a team.

What you'll do

• Drive Impact: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into possible improvements to our product.
• Build Great Software: Design and develop clean, maintainable, and high-quality software, applying a wide range of principles including functional patterns. Conduct code reviews and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Lead and Influence: Guide technical direction for major initiatives, shape how the product evolves and mentor team members along the way.
• Promote Innovation and Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues, share what you learn openly, and continuously improve processes, tools, and team practices.
• The Tech Stack for this role includes Golang, MySQL, Docker images deployed on a Kubernetes cluster in our cloud infrastructure (GCS, AWS or Azure) and Github CI/CD.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Passionate about software craftsmanship: Strong understanding of software development principles, Clean Code and Clean Architecture.
• Product thinking: Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements, specifications and ultimately into code.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: link your daily work to team and company goals, balance cost and benefit, deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.
• Ownership: take responsibility for your technical work, for the product we build and the team we shape.
• Team-oriented: proactively support team goals, close gaps.
• Abstraction and efficient communication: simplify complex systems, identify core concepts, communicate complex ideas to different stakeholders.

What you'll get

• Full ownership. You own the product's roadmap, from business problem to shipped code.
• End-to-end impact. You're on a team that owns what it builds, start to finish.
• A modern, varied tech stack. Continuous learning as the platform scales.

Learn more about blp and our values at blp.digital/company/careers.