Junior Software Engineer

Opus 2

Junior Software Engineer role focusing on foundational skills in a hybrid workplace. Building production software under the guidance of senior engineers with an emphasis on AI tools and practices.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoJavaPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build foundational skills on real production work. Well-defined tasks with senior engineers supervising. The work is small in scope but real, and your code ships and serves customers.
Learn the craft deliberately. Code review feedback, pairing, documentation, tests. These are the fundamentals that compound, and we protect time for them.
Use the tools well. Source control, your dev environment, CI, observability, and AI tooling, which we treat as part of the workflow. Try things and bring back what you find.
Communicate clearly. Tell your team what you're working on, why, how it's going, and where you're stuck. Asking for help is part of the job.
Improve the docs. Whenever something tripped you up, write the explanation that would have helped. The codebase improves, and so do you.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You're at the start of your career: an internship, bootcamp, computer science degree, self-taught with a portfolio, or early in your first role.
You can write code in at least one mainstream language (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go). Not yet expertly, but clearly enough to do the job.
You've used Git, written tests, and shipped *something*: a personal project, course work, or an internship.
You're comfortable using AI tooling in your workflow, and you treat it as a way to learn faster rather than a shortcut to think less.
You enjoy explaining what you've learned, even imperfectly, because that's how it sticks.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A real engineering role at a growing company where AI is in production and shapes how software gets built. Not a junior slot doing make-work.
Investment in your growth: protected coaching time on senior engineers' calendars, code review that grows you, and exposure to challenging problems matched to your level.
A clear path forward, with someone whose job it is to help you get there.
Contributory pension plan.
33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
Health Insurance.
Loyalty Share Scheme.
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
A day of leave to volunteer for charity or dependent day.
Regular Company Social Events.
Yearly Development Retreat.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptJavaGoGitcode testingcode reviewdocumentationCIobservability

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitywillingness to learnexplanation skills