
Senior Software Engineer
Low Carbon Contracts Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £70,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable software solutions, ensuring alignment with Principals and Architects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, QA, and DevOps, to deliver high-quality features.
- Lead code reviews and technical discussions, and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Lead complex coding tasks; ensure code quality
- Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
- Estimate work; lead delivery of features from the roadmap.
- Solve ambiguous problems with scalable solutions.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Python web development frameworks (e.g., Django) and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Skilled in applying software technical design principles to build scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions within modern cloud-based architectures.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and practices.
- Strong problem‑solving & communication skills
- Adaptability/willingness to learn (e.g., Agile)
- Technical leadership (mentoring, best‑practice guidance)
- Experience with modern frameworks and libraries (e.g., React, Node.js, Terraform, Celery)
- Experience with database schema design and query optimisation
Benefits
- Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
- 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
- Up to 8% pension contribution
- Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
- Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
- Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
- Three paid volunteering days a year
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
- Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
- Employee resource groups
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Hard skills
PythonDjangoJavaScriptTypeScriptAWSAzureGCPCI/CDReactNode.js
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilitytechnical leadershipmentoring
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science