Zulu Ecosystems

Senior Software Engineer

Zulu Ecosystems

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTypeScript

About the role

  • Owning the technical design and delivery of core product and platform services
  • Working across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, implementation, deployment, and iteration
  • Leading architectural decisions and technical direction for new systems, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability
  • Building APIs, data pipelines, and user-facing features as the product evolves
  • Writing high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code; setting standards and patterns that others can build on
  • Collaborating closely with product owners, data scientists and domain experts
  • Improving developer experience, tooling, and engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, runbooks etc.)
  • Turning ambiguous problems into well-defined, shipped solutions; breaking down work, managing technical risk, and communicating trade-offs
  • Mentoring and supporting other engineers through pairing, feedback, and pragmatic coaching
  • Helping keep our systems secure, resilient, and cost-effective in cloud environments

Requirements

  • Proven experience delivering and operating production systems end-to-end
  • Full-stack experience including at least one modern back-end language (e.g. Python, TypeScript, Go)
  • Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Experience working with APIs, services, and data stores
  • Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and containerised workflows
  • Strong system design skills: able to design services and data flows that are robust, observable, and scalable
  • Experience driving technical initiatives independently (or leading small groups) from problem definition to delivery
  • Passion for solving ecological challenges
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
  • Private healthcare
  • Workplace pension
  • £1,000 annual learning & development budget
  • Collaborative team culture blending tech, science, and impact
  • New MacBook Pro or choice of equipment
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptGoAPI developmentdata pipelinessystem designCI/CDcontainerized workflowscloud infrastructureobservability
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationtechnical risk managementfeedbackcoachingdesign thinkingadaptability