- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
Our talent team at Get A Job.ai is representing a confidential entertainment technology organization with a global footprint spanning more than 70 countries. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their London-based engineering team working on mission-critical platforms that support a complex, data-intensive business operating at international scale.
This role offers the chance to solve challenging technical problems while collaborating with product managers and business stakeholders to modernize systems that power creative industries. You'll work within a hybrid environment (3 days in office, 2 days remote) and contribute to platforms that serve users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance scalable applications that support global products and platforms
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software across the full application stack
- Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into reliable technical solutions
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with a focus on long-term quality and system reliability
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design, and modernization initiatives across platforms
- Design APIs and services that integrate with internal systems and third-party platforms
- Improve application performance, observability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
- Partner with engineering leadership to establish best practices and continuously improve development processes
- Troubleshoot production issues using logs, monitoring, and root-cause analysis to ensure platform stability
What We're Looking For
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining complex software applications
- Experience implementing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Strong experience with Python and JavaScript
- Experience building frontend applications using TypeScript and React
- Experience working with databases and query technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka, OpenSearch, or similar platforms
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with HTTP and OAuth standards
- Comfortable working within AWS cloud environments
- Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests
- Experience investigating production issues through logging, monitoring, and performance analysis
- Experience working in Agile development environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience building software for financial, accounting, ERP, payments, e-commerce, content, data, or other highly complex and data-intensive business systems
- Experience modeling complex business domains and translating business rules into scalable software solutions
- Strong understanding of data modeling, schema design, and relational databases
- Experience optimizing application performance, database queries, and large-scale data processing
- Passion for improving engineering standards, developer tooling, and technical documentation
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives without direct people-management responsibility
- Curious, collaborative, and proactive, with a continuous-improvement mindset
How We Work with You
When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening to understand your experience and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration and guide you through their interview process.
Please apply exclusively through Get A Job.ai—do not attempt to contact the client directly, as this may disqualify your application.
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and the client's budget for this position.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive hiring practices. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and work with clients who share our commitment to workforce diversity and equal opportunity employment.
Apply with Get A Job.ai
A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
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.
Explore Get A Job.ai online
Working in London, UK
Weather right now in London, UK: checking… · Local time: · Air quality: · Daylight: · UV index: · Wind: · Pollen:
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.4 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. England shares a land border with Scotland to the north and another land border with Wales to the west, and is surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and
Nearby green space: 12 parks within 1.5km — closest is Whitehall Garden (364m). via OpenStreetMap
Nearest public transit: Charing Cross (station, 41m). via OpenStreetMap
- Elevation 18m (59 ft)
Source: Wikipedia (state)
About this role & career path
Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
Industry news
- I was a software engineer who couldn't get excited about AI. Now I'm studying to be a nurse. - Business Insider
- ‘AI code apocalypse’ hasn’t hit engineers as hard as the industry may think - IT Brew
- The Great Coding Reset: How AI is changing software engineering - Business Insider
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
Workers in Computer & Mathematical occupations earn a national median of $98,769 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
Market context
- Similar listings in London 5
Job details above are provided by the employer/source. The sections on this page are compiled from public data sources with AI assistance.
Accommodations: if you need a workplace accommodation to apply for or perform this job, see ADA.gov or EEOC.gov for guidance on your rights and how to request one.
Listing facts
- Role Senior Software Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 17, 2026
- Apply by October 17, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (548 words)
Facts above come from this job record on Get A Job.AI — not copied from third-party review sites.
Typical work in Senior Software Engineer
Independent occupational context from O*NET (U.S. public-domain labor data). This is about the occupation, not a rewrite of this employer's posting.
- Analyze information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.
- Coordinate installation of software system.
Limited public data for this employer
We only show facts we can ground in public sources (Wikidata, O*NET, news/discussion links, or this listing). We do not invent Glassdoor-style ratings, salaries, or testimonials when data is thin. Use the listing facts, occupation context, and related openings below while we continue researching.
Explore related openings
Occupation family: Senior Software Engineer
Keep exploring on Get A Job.ai
Not quite the right fit? Your next opportunity is a click away.
- Browse all jobs
- More jobs by category
- Remote jobs you can do from anywhere
- Research typical pay for this role
- Set a job alert so new matches reach you first
- Upload your resume to apply faster
Hiring instead? Post a job and reach candidates searching right now.