Top Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

As a Software Engineer at Canonical, you will collaborate globally to shape open-source software operations, focusing on Python and Golang development, enhance DevOps workflows, and improve infrastructure operations for cloud computing solutions.

The role involves designing and delivering open source software operations code in Python, ensuring system reliability, and collaborating with teams across the Linux stack.

The Sr. Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain public APIs and integrations, ensuring high scalability and performance while improving code quality using AI tools.

The Software Engineer will design, develop, and install software solutions, focusing on web applications using PHP and ensuring coding standards and technical design compliance.

The Software Infrastructure Engineer will develop and maintain tools/services for software build, CI/CD systems, and manage cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Terraform.

Develop and maintain secure, scalable eMoney and FX payment systems. Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to implement features, participate in code reviews, support performance monitoring and documentation, and follow secure development and regulatory standards while receiving mentorship.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, and data capabilities for analytics, dashboards, and visualizations. Responsibilities include processing and aggregating structured and unstructured data, optimizing performance, collaborating with frontend, data, UX, product, and DevOps teams, and supporting reliable production deployments. The role also involves technical design, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, code reviews, and continuous improvement of analytics services.

Leads end-to-end modernization from a monolith to microservices, including legacy analysis, architecture, estimation, data migration, deployment, and production support. Guides .NET services, databases, messaging, containerization, and frontend integrations. Acts as the technical escalation point for complex issues while improving Jira tracking, estimation accuracy, QA collaboration, release predictability, and engineering processes. Manages and develops the team through one-on-ones, performance reviews, feedback, and career-focused objectives.

Lead and deliver full‑stack features for international direct‑to‑consumer products. Collaborate with product, design, and analytics; own operations, metrics, on‑call, code quality, and talent development while driving technical design and execution.

Lead design and build of API-first product platforms and high-scale APIs consumed by internal teams, external integrations, and AI agents. Drive API standards, reliability, observability, and scalability; develop agentic workflows and reduce systemic technical risk while mentoring senior engineers.

Design, build and maintain backend services for multiplayer games. Implement distributed systems, CI/CD, containerised microservices, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud infrastructure, and documentation. Collaborate on estimates, support teammates, and ensure high-quality deployments and operational standards.

Full-stack AI/ML Software Engineer to build HealthTech SaaS microservices, implement and integrate ML solutions, write high-quality code, author documentation, perform code reviews, and act as an SME on services and systems.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

As a Software Engineer at Canonical, you will design, build, and ship software, improve packaging and distribution processes, and mentor colleagues while contributing to open source projects.

The Junior Ubuntu Software Engineer will design, build, and ship software, focusing on quality and resilience, while engaging with the open source community.

Lead Mark43's AI-enabled engineering initiative by designing and orchestrating multi-agent systems that plan, write, review, test, and deploy software. Write prompts, scaffolding, and tool integrations (VCS, test runners, internal APIs), evaluate agent performance, prototype LLM-based workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor teammates, and contribute to on-call rotations.

Lead development of an offshore wind turbine foundation concept design tool. Combine OO programming (Matlab/Python or similar) with offshore structural engineering, foundations and steel design, stress, finite-element and loads modelling for jackets, monopiles and towers. Work alongside experienced offshore structural engineers to shape tool direction. Permanent role in the UK.

Design and implement embedded Linux software (C/C++), support platform bring-up and embedded build systems (Yocto/Buildroot), define interfaces with MCU/UI/connectivity, debug system-level faults and performance issues, work to safety/reliability standards for medical devices, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop and maintain MCU firmware for a greenfield medical device using embedded C/C++. Work with cross-functional teams to design real-time RTOS-based systems, implement peripheral drivers, support integration and fault investigation, define coding standards, and mentor junior engineers while complying with medical device safety standards such as IEC 62304.

Designs, develops, and operationalizes large-scale backend, API, graph, AI, and machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include technical leadership, cloud-native architecture, roadmap development, testing, code reviews, mentoring, recruitment, stakeholder communication, and improving engineering processes. The role requires extensive Java and Spring experience, AWS cloud development, RESTful APIs, stream processing, low-latency applications, generative and agentic AI, and strong software delivery practices.

Build and productionize tooling that compiles complex Python packages such as NumPy, SciPy, and PyTorch from source. Develop conda recipes, build tools, automation, and release processes; partner with packaging and distribution teams; mentor engineers; and lead postmortems, capacity planning, and incident response. The role also shapes technical strategy, architecture, project scope, and delivery decisions for build and distribution infrastructure.

Develop and maintain tools for software build and release processes, manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, and deploy services using Kubernetes and Docker.

Build and maintain the control planes, automation, and observability for a global fleet of machines. Develop production-quality Go services for provisioning, health checks, upgrades, and incident remediation. Architect high-throughput, low-latency networking, improve utilization and power-to-performance, and collaborate with product and platform teams on storage-aware scheduling and developer-facing features.

Design, build, and maintain backend API and database services for a cloud PBX platform. Drive architecture, performance optimization, debugging, CI/CD and test automation, and collaborate with QA. Mentor peers and raise engineering standards while safely evolving high-load, networked systems.

Design and build front-end interfaces and integration layers that compose and run reusable simulation models, data, and services. Implement data mapping, transformations, configuration management, and real-time UI components. Diagnose and resolve cross-system issues, synchronisation and data mismatches while integrating internal, third-party and legacy simulation systems to create deployable training systems.