Staff Software Engineer — Architecture & Incident Leader

DFYNE; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its senior technical leadership team in the UK. You will shape architecture, engineering standards and technical direction while remaining hands-on in design, delivery, and operation of critical systems.

You will mentor engineers, lead through expertise, and help scale DFYNE’s engineering capability, improving software quality and operational excellence as the company grows.

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.
• Experience leading incident response and writing post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and expert guidance across 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.
• 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

Google Cloud Platform

Distributed systems

System design

Incident response

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its senior technical leadership team in the UK. You will shape architecture, engineering standards and technical direction while remaining hands-on in design, delivery, and operation of critical systems.

You will mentor engineers, lead through expertise, and help scale DFYNE’s engineering capability, improving software quality and operational excellence as the company grows.