Top Software Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Lead architecture and technical direction across the full stack, solve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, deploy LLM-powered features into production, improve reliability and scale, mentor engineers, and make strategic build/buy and platform decisions that shape long-term product delivery.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead projects, enhance tooling, collaborate with teams and clients, and uphold technical standards within a hybrid work environment.

Lead technical teams to design, build, test, and maintain modern, scalable software. Provide architecture and product ownership, mentor and coach junior engineers, drive CI/CD practices, and collaborate with customers to deliver high-quality solutions.

Build and operate a managed PostgreSQL service for AI workloads: develop control plane and lifecycle automation in Go, tune PostgreSQL internals and ecosystem tooling, create migration tooling, integrate vector search, run SRE practices (SLOs, observability, incident response), and work directly with customers on architecture and escalations.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop high-quality software solutions, mentor junior members, apply best practices in design and build, and contribute to technical decisions in a collaborative environment.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable backend services and mobile SDKs for payment device integrations. Lead architecture, improve CI/CD and testing, mentor engineers, ensure security and compliance (PCI/OWASP), investigate performance issues, participate in on-call rotation after onboarding, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable payment solutions.

Develop, optimize, and maintain embedded software for microcontrollers and microprocessors across RTOS and bare-metal environments. Collaborate with hardware teams, perform testing/debugging, optimize performance and power, participate in code reviews, produce documentation, and contribute to open-source projects.

Build and maintain a distributed, fault-tolerant, high-performance block and filesystem storage system. Work on virtualization (virtio-blk, virtio-fs, QEMU, vhost-user), high-throughput VM-to-storage networking (TCP, RoCEv2/RDMA), and core storage features like replication, consensus, self-healing, and data migration. Debug and optimize performance-critical I/O paths while writing reliable, maintainable code in a collaborative team environment.

Work on YDB distributed storage and database systems to maximize performance on modern and legacy hardware (NVMe, HDD, DPUs). Reengineer components for low-latency, high-throughput workloads, profile and debug production systems, and design resilient distributed storage primitives. Collaborate on incident resolution and production deployments to support Nebius cloud services.

Lead analysis and resolution of system performance issues across Akamai's distributed Linux platform. Design and implement scalable software and tools for performance detection, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deploy efficient solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement generative AI services, drive architectural standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance data solutions.

The Sr. Software Engineer (FE) will lead the development of scalable frontend applications using React. Responsibilities include systems design, testing strategy, performance optimization, AI integration, and mentoring.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain scalable software solutions using Node.js and TypeScript, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring product reliability.

Lead the architecture of Tide's agentic platform, ensuring reliable, scalable services. Collaborate across teams to design APIs and integration standards, focusing on developer experience and analytics.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop backend services for Tide's AI platform, integrate components, ensure reliability, and shape AI engineering patterns.

As a Technical Lead, you'll oversee technical projects, mentor engineers, ensure high-quality solutions, and influence strategic decisions in a collaborative environment.

Lead the design and development of complex Rails features, mentor junior engineers, define technical direction, and ensure high-quality code while collaborating with stakeholders.

The role involves architecting and developing cross-platform libraries in Rust and other languages, contributing to both mobile and web applications. Responsibilities include delivering complex features and ensuring a cohesive user experience across platforms.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of a scalable network data platform for Confluent Cloud, focusing on performance, reliability, and security while managing complex software projects across teams.

Join a remote EU-based talent pipeline as a senior C++ engineer working on a custom engine or UE5. Maintain and develop game features and tools, collaborate across disciplines, and debug, profile, and optimize code for Windows PC strategy games.

Lead design and implementation of high-performance agent runtimes, backend services, and self-hosted model/agent infrastructure. Build low-latency execution systems, real-time data pipelines, telemetry loops, CI/CD for zero-downtime deployments, and ensure fleet reliability on AWS/EKS.

Design, build, and maintain automated acceptance and end-to-end test frameworks within an agile team. Collaborate with developers and analysts to define requirements and edge cases, perform exploratory testing, and validate resiliency and failure scenarios to ensure high-quality continuous delivery.

Develop and maintain bespoke web applications and services for a SaaS financial-advice platform using TypeScript/React/Node.js. Work within an Agile team to build service-oriented components, integrate REST APIs, follow best-practice for software quality and security, and share team ownership and status reporting.

Design, build, and optimize high-performance AI infrastructure systems to support intelligent agents, ensuring reliability and scalability for millions of users.