Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Outside IR35 - Contract (Insurance)
About the role

• Self-starter, someone who can pick up context quickly, drive outcomes efficiently, and to a high quality
• Competent in doing high-level designs, solution management, and scoping
• Understanding of data modelling best practices
• Ability to translate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders and bring them on the journey
• Experience working in an agile delivery environment
• Experience working with React, Type Script, Azure, Microsoft SQL, and Databricks (if they don’t have all of these, that’s workable, but be good to understand any they don’t have experience with)

• React + Type Script + Vite
• Material UI with Emotion for styling
• Tan Stack React Query 5 for server state
• React Router 7
• MSAL for Entra
• Jest+Testing Library for unit tests;
  Playwrightfor E2E and visual tests
• Hosted as an Azure Static Web App
• Azure Functions apps with Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure communication email, and Azure identity
• Common backend tooling:
  Jest (unit + integration), Testcontainers (Azurite + MSSQL), ESLint/Prettier, Yup

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Prisma

• Azure Databricks notebooks with deployment scripts
• Terraform / Open Tofu( hub-and-spoke infrastructure)

End date: 18/11/2026

Softwire is a leading UK technology and strategy consultancy. From enterprise to government, we help visionary organisations turn strategic ambitions into results  practices cover AI transformation, data platforms, systems engineering advanced CX and experience design.