Staff Software Engineer - Remote-First, Scale SaaS

Burns Sheehan Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Limited is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a scaling SaaS business in the UK. The role is remote-first with monthly or quarterly onsite in Manchester, offering hands-on work and strong technical influence.

You will shape design directions, lead architecture, and maintain production systems while staying close to code in a modern stack with TypeScript and Node.js at its core. The position emphasizes ownership and delivery across features.

Qualifications

• Strong TypeScript and Node.js production experience.
• Ability to lead architectural decisions while contributing as an IC.
• Solid understanding of software design, automated testing, and production support.
• Experience building secure, scalable systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and architectural decisions for scalable systems.
• Stay hands-on building production software in a modern full-stack environment (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to break down requirements into deliverable increments.
• Prototype solutions, run technical spikes and validate architectural approaches.
• Champion clean code, testing and secure development practices.
• Own the quality, performance and operability of your systems, including live-prod support.
• Explore AI-enabled workflows to improve engineering efficiency.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Architectural design

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Testing automation

Job description

Burns Sheehan Limited is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for a scaling SaaS business in the UK. The role is remote-first with monthly or quarterly onsite in Manchester, offering hands-on work and strong technical influence.

You will shape design directions, lead architecture, and maintain production systems while staying close to code in a modern stack with TypeScript and Node.js at its core. The position emphasizes ownership and delivery across features.