Senior Software Engineer

Red Badger

Senior Software Engineer developing high-quality digital products using lean delivery processes. Collaborating in multidisciplinary teams to tackle core business complexities with varying technologies and practices.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerElasticSearchJavaScriptJenkinsKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsPostgresReactRedisTerraformTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
Starting or continuing your journey as a line-manager
Coach & support peers
Providing support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)
Pair programming with other members of the team, including designers and QAs
Own the delivery of user stories end-to-end, working with agile principles
Leading and supporting your peers in technical decisions
Be an advocate for lean software development, building for what is required now
Help break large deliverables into small, lean incremental user stories
Actively contribute to agile ceremonies
Proactively engage with clients to shape and move the project forward, including giving updates on the delivery progress and highlighting potential technical blockers
Upskilling and embedding modern software practices in client teams where necessary

Requirements

What you’ll need

Frontend web technologies (e.g. Javascript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
Frontend web frameworks (e.g. React, VueJS, etc.)
Backend technologies (Kotlin, Node.js etc)
Relational and Non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS…)
Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)
CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
Effective source-control management using Git
Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
Collaborating in cross-functional teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual £2,000 training budget
Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of your salary
Group Life Insurance
Income Replacement Benefit
Critical Illness Cover
Private Medical Insurance
Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
£2,000 home-office set up budget and contribution to home broadband
Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
Cycle to work
Enhanced parental leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavascriptTypescriptCSSHTMLReactVueJSKotlinNode.jsElasticSearchPostgreSQL

Soft Skills

coachingsupporting peersadaptabilitycommunicationleadershipclient engagementproblem-solvingcollaborationadvocacyproactivity