Top Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Develop and maintain Elasticsearch’s Inference API and plugin framework, integrating internal and external AI providers. Responsibilities include API and protocol design, streaming, asynchronous execution, rate limiting, configuration, billing integration, error handling, open-source contribution reviews, incident response, and comprehensive unit, REST, and rolling-upgrade testing. The role requires advanced Java expertise, concurrency and parallelism knowledge, API design skills, cross-functional collaboration, and autonomous work in a distributed team.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Develop and support full-stack web applications using C#/.NET, JavaScript frameworks, Azure services, APIs, and cloud-native technologies. Responsibilities include application design, integration, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, code reviews, and secure performance optimization. The role collaborates with designers, product managers, and developers while using AI-assisted tools to improve development productivity and quality.

Build end-to-end software solutions and integrations for strategic customers. Partner closely with customer engineers and executives, design technical architectures and product features, apply ElevenLabs technologies, and solve complex problems through hands-on coding and implementation. The role requires strong Python and software development expertise, API integration knowledge, clear communication, and regular travel to customer sites.

Develop and optimize software framework support enabling Triton, PyTorch, and other machine learning frameworks to run on Graphcore hardware. Responsibilities include implementing features, compiler development, performance optimization, code reviews, technical documentation, upstream open-source collaboration, and coordinating complex technical work across teams.

Designs, develops, tests, operates, and supports secure, reliable software solutions. Responsibilities include translating requirements into technical designs, building full-stack or cloud software, reviewing AI-assisted code, creating automated tests, participating in code and design reviews, documenting systems, and improving engineering practices. Specialisms include backend, frontend, full-stack, DevOps, and cloud engineering, using technologies such as Python, JavaScript, AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

Design, build, and operate high-performance platform services for SailPoint’s Identity Security Cloud. Develop Golang microservices, Angular and TypeScript features, automated tests, and AWS-based distributed architectures. Collaborate with data scientists on AI-driven capabilities, optimize low-latency services and databases, improve CI/CD pipelines, participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, and contribute to technical design, mentoring, and platform strategy.

Provides hands-on technical leadership across the Client Lifecycle vertical, designing distributed, event-driven, cloud-native systems and secure backend services. The role guides architecture, data modelling, APIs, integrations, production readiness, reliability, and technical standards across multiple teams. It remains hands-on through prototyping, coding, code reviews, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis while mentoring engineers and communicating technical strategy to senior stakeholders.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Build and ship native Android features in Kotlin for an AI-enabled neobank. Design clean mobile flows for payments, insurance and financial services, integrate backend APIs, improve performance and reliability, use analytics and on-device ML (TensorFlow Lite) to enhance user journeys, and collaborate with product and design.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, integration layers, and microservices supporting personalization and recommendation experiences. Partner with AI/ML and data engineers to deploy models, expose AI services, and develop React applications. Improve security, observability, reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while using AI-assisted engineering tools to enhance delivery and code quality.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support secure, scalable software solutions for national security and government customers. The role involves cloud-native development across AWS and Azure, CI/CD pipeline creation with GitLab, architecture and technical design, customer collaboration, code reviews, mentoring, and technical strategy. Depending on experience, the engineer may lead teams and manage customer relationships.

Build and maintain bespoke full-stack software solutions for national security government customers. Responsibilities include design, development, testing, Agile delivery, GitLab-based continuous integration, cloud deployment across AWS and Azure, and full software lifecycle participation. Depending on experience, the role may also involve team leadership and client engagement. The position is predominantly based in Bristol or at a customer site in Cheltenham.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of a major global product area spanning multiple modules. Architect scalable, distributed cloud systems, shape technical vision and product roadmaps, guide engineering teams, make high-stakes technical decisions, and influence executives and cross-functional stakeholders. The role is primarily hands-off, with occasional code-level design and proof-of-concept work. Experience with AI/ML, AWS, API design, data modeling, SaaS, DevOps, and CI/CD is advantageous.

Build and operate scalable, low-latency backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, and frontend applications supporting membership, loyalty, rewards, and consumer engagement. Configure and integrate Antavo with commerce, CRM, CDP, marketing, and data platforms. Apply secure, observable, resilient engineering practices, troubleshoot production issues, and optimize performance. The role requires strong Java and Spring Boot expertise, plus working knowledge of React, Node.js, Kafka, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Build scalable, low-latency backend APIs, event-driven services, model-serving layers, and integrations supporting real-time and batch personalization and recommendation experiences. Design reliable, secure, observable distributed systems using Java and Spring Boot, optimize performance and operational efficiency, and integrate LLM and AI services into production applications. Collaborate with engineering leadership and use AI-assisted development tools to improve delivery and code quality.

Designs and executes functional, integration, API, automated, exploratory, and end-to-end tests for personalization, recommendation, experimentation, and consumer intelligence capabilities. Builds test suites, validates AI-driven outputs and consumer journeys, manages test data, performs cross-browser testing, partners with engineering and product teams, and improves automation coverage, regression efficiency, and defect detection.

Software Engineer role at Paddle, a global Merchant of Record and payments infrastructure company. The posting provides limited role-specific responsibilities or qualifications, but the position focuses on software engineering using Go. Paddle offers remote or hub-based work, professional development support, unlimited holidays, and inclusive workplace benefits.

Build BLP’s core software across infrastructure, backend, machine learning, and product extension platforms. Responsibilities include operating secure and observable cloud infrastructure, developing performant distributed systems, applying AI to business problems, and enabling customer process automation. The role emphasizes formal reasoning, correctness by construction, maintainable systems, type systems, and functional programming. Work is available onsite in Zurich or remotely within Europe.

Build and scale internal systems and tooling for a large social gaming platform. Responsibilities include collaborating cross-functionally, delivering software in an agile environment, troubleshooting systems, managing risk through DevOps and testing, improving development processes, and maintaining secure, reliable, scalable services. The role requires frontend and backend development, including React, WordPress, Python, and Golang, plus expertise in microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed computing.

Design, build and automate integration and system tests across firmware, BMC and Linux device drivers. Develop reusable tools, pipelines and packaging solutions, debug cross-layer issues, and define release gates to ensure high-quality system software releases.

Build and operate full-stack web applications end to end, from technical design through production release and support. Direct and verify coding agents, create tests and safeguards, review changes for design and security, respond to production issues, maintain alerting and runbooks, and document systems. The role requires strong ownership, independent technical judgment, collaboration, and excellent English communication. Vue, TypeScript, AWS serverless, EdTech, and UI/UX experience are useful but not required.

Develop software for additive manufacturing assembly and test systems, reusable libraries, and production processes. Integrate software with sensors, motion systems, instruments, and automated equipment. Contribute to architecture, coding standards, validation, troubleshooting, and test-data analysis while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires hands-on interaction with both software and hardware in a research and development and manufacturing environment.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery. Automate deployment, scaling, and monitoring; troubleshoot pipeline issues; support development teams migrating builds; and collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams. The role is client-facing and may involve technical leadership, advising clients, improving security and reliability, participating in a support rota, and working from a local office at least two days per week.