About this role
Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year
Requirements
- Extensive, demonstrable background in modern software engineering or development practices
- Expertise in multiple modern software languages and broad, deep development experience
- Experience working with cloud technologies; we currently use AWS
- Knowledge of modern DevOps practices and infrastructure as code
- Security-by-design mindset
- Ability to translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions
- Ability to influence stakeholders, senior management and peers
- Experience coaching and mentoring junior engineers
- Six years of software development experience (required)
- UK work authorisation (required)
- Edinburgh location preferred
- Experience in financial services, a scale-up business, Ruby on Rails, reactive programming, or AI/ML engineering would be beneficial
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, document and maintain high-quality software
- Contribute deeply to architecture and tooling decisions
- Share knowledge and continue developing expertise
- Coach and mentor junior software engineers
- Ensure the security of our software stack and applications
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Rails
- Ruby
- Security
- microservices
- Embedded
More
At LendingCrowd, were a leading fintech business shaping how SMEs borrow money. Since launching in 2014, weve driven over £630 million in lending to small businesses across the UK. Were challenging the business-lending market by re-engineering our platforms with an event-driven microservices architecture, and we encourage ideas and a culture of doing the right thing. This full-time Senior Software Engineer role reports to our Software Engineering Manager and is part of a small, agile team working on our key systems.
It offers exposure to new and cutting-edge technology, with a salary from £45,000 per year. Benefits include bereavement leave, company events, a company pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, gym membership, life insurance, private dental and medical insurance, a referral programme, sick pay and work-from-home options. The role is hybrid remote in Edinburgh, EH2 2JG.
last updated 45 week of 2026