Staff Software Engineer: Architect, Lead & Scale Systems

OLR Holdings Ltd trading as DFYNE; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to become the most senior IC in the engineering team. You will shape architecture, set engineering standards and stay hands-on in design, delivery and operation of critical systems.

As the senior technical leader, you’ll influence how we scale, mentor engineers, and drive quality and operational excellence across multiple platforms while partnering with Product, Operations and Engineering to align technical decisions with business goals.

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 and expert guidance 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 in 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

8+ years exp

Distributed systems

TypeScript

Python

Cloud: GCP

Tech leadership

Incident response

Mentoring

System design

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to become the most senior IC in the engineering team. You will shape architecture, set engineering standards and stay hands-on in design, delivery and operation of critical systems.

As the senior technical leader, you’ll influence how we scale, mentor engineers, and drive quality and operational excellence across multiple platforms while partnering with Product, Operations and Engineering to align technical decisions with business goals.