Senior Software Engineer

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.