Senior Software Engineer

Job Description Senior Software Engineer - London or Edinburgh We are working with a long-standing, UK-based consultancy with a well-earned reputation for excellence, who are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their software team, a role blending hands-on development with genuine ownership of design and architecture, shaping scalable, resilient platforms that are growing fast.

• Salary up to £80,000
• Hybrid working with 2 days a week in their London or Edinburgh office
• 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Competitive pension
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Cycle to work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes

The platform is hosted within C#, .NET, Microsoft Azure, uses Cosmos DB and PostgreSQL for data storage, and is complemented by a Vue.js and Type Script front end. Day to day, you'll be:

• Building and maintaining client-facing applications processing large, complex datasets in real time
• Driving the evolution of the platform's architecture, spotting opportunities to improve performance, scalability and resilience
• Owning technical design decisions while staying hands-on through the full development lifecycle, from concept to delivery
• Championing engineering best practice, clean structure, testability and solid documentation
• Supporting cloud operations across Microsoft Azure, including App Services, CI/CD pipelines and Azure Front Door
• Staying ahead of the curve on emerging tools and techniques, including AI-assisted and agentic development workflows

• Strong C# and .NET expertise, with a track record of designing high-performance, maintainable systems
• Solid database experience
• Confidence using AI-assisted coding tools and agentic workflows day to day
• Familiarity with Agile environments and collaborative code review
• Azure Dev Ops knowledge
• A strong communicator, able to translate technical detail for non-technical audiences

Interested? This is a rare chance to combine the stability of an established UK consultancy with the pace and purpose of a growing technology business, all while making a tangible impact on the energy transition. If you're a senior engineer ready to shape technology that genuinely matters, we'd love to hear from you.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of and in our industry.