Senior Software Engineer, Applied Innovation

Senior Software Engineer – Applied Innovation

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Kainos Applied Innovation team, you’ll work closely with customers and colleagues to identify, prototype, and deliver high-impact software solutions. The role combines hands‑on engineering with applied R&D; you’ll rapidly explore emerging technologies, assess their practical value, and turn promising ideas into working products, prototypes, and share technical recommendations. This is a fast‑paced and ambiguous environment, so you’ll be expected to take initiative, work autonomously, and make sound technical judgements with limited direction.

You’ll communicate your findings clearly, help customers and teams understand the opportunities and trade‑offs of new approaches, and apply those insights to real‑world problems. You’ll collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines, contribute to a culture of experimentation and engineering quality, and support others as they take on new technical challenges.

• Proficient in designing, building, testing and maintaining modern software applications.
• Experience applying development best practices and patterns in relation to security, scalability and performance.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning and user‑story/requirement creation.
• Experience designing and developing across multiple layers of an application.
• Mentoring junior team members.
• Exposure to modern AI‑Driven Development tools and techniques.
• Experience leading features and projects in a team environment, as well as working independently and autonomously.

• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to technical and non‑technical people; able to engage stakeholders and understand their goals and motivations.
• Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques.
• Experience debugging and troubleshooting live applications.
  
  Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and with wider audiences.
• Experience with multiple programming languages, data storage technologies and AI tools.
• Experience balancing technical dependencies with user needs and commercial constraints.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, including SaaS and PaaS offerings.
• Experience researching novel or new technologies and making recommendations for their use.

We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Applications are welcome from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or other characteristics.