- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
Responsibilities
We are representing a confidential public safety technology organization seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their London-based engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design, development, and delivery of a mission-critical alerting platform that ensures the right people receive the right information at the right time.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Leading engineering architecture design reviews and setting a high technical bar through code and design reviews
- Building highly available services that meet strict availability and latency requirements in a mission-critical environment
- Designing and delivering systems that ingest events from diverse device sources, enrich data with metadata, apply notification rules, and deliver alerts across multiple channels
- Mentoring and guiding other engineers on the team to elevate overall technical excellence
- Collaborating across Product, Design, and Engineering teams to create integrated solutions
- Improving engineering processes including architectural planning, sprint planning, and stand-ups
- Enhancing operational excellence through improved metrics, dashboards, observability, and responding to production issues while preventing recurrence
- Working with modern cloud-based and open source technologies
This is a hybrid position based in London, with in-office work Tuesday through Friday and remote work on Mondays.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Proven experience designing and delivering highly available, scalable cloud-based systems
- Strong backend service experience in multiple managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
- Experience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores, queue services, cache services, and gateway services
- A passion for staying current with software engineering trends and open source technologies, with the ability to distinguish promising practices from overhyped trends
- A customer-focused mindset and enthusiasm for tackling novel technical challenges
How We Work With You
As a recruiting partner to our client, Get A Job.ai manages the full candidate process. Here's how it works:
- You apply directly through the Get A Job.ai platform
- Our recruiting team conducts an initial screening to understand your background and fit
- We submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration
- Please do not contact the client organization directly, as all communications are coordinated through our talent team
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Get A Job.ai is committed to fair and equitable recruiting practices. We evaluate all candidates based on qualifications and merit, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.
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Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
Terms used in this posting
- hybrid
- A work arrangement combining both in-office and remote/at-home work, typically on a set schedule.
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Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
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Salary & compensation
Workers in Computer & Mathematical occupations earn a national median of $98,769 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
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Listing facts
- Role Senior Software Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 16, 2026
- Apply by October 16, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (403 words)
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- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
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