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Staff Software Engineer

Fleet Full-Time 63000 - 84000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer– Greenfield Tech refresh project

Fleet (Hybrid: 2 days per week onsite) | Up to £105,000 + 10% Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Are you a passionate Staff or Principal Engineer looking to lead modernisation initiatives and shape the next generation of systems for a scaling tech-led business?

We’re working with a cutting-edge technology company who are about to embark on a tech refresh project moving toward a modern, cloud-native, event-driven architecture with Go and other modern software development languages. They're on the lookout for an experienced Staff Engineer, who has worked on similar modernisation and migration projects to play a pivotal role in this transformation journey.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Lead the migration of large-scale .NET systems to Golang
Own key architecture and platform decisions to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
Champion DevOps best practices: CI/CD, automation, IaC (Terraform), observability and security.
Collaborate across teams, build strong engineering practices, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Mentor and guide engineers, shaping both tech strategy and team capability (70% hands on, 30% mentoring/leadership)

What They’re Looking For:

Deep experience working on and leading major migration or modernisation projects.
Strong hands-on engineering background with languages like C#/.NET, Golang, Python, or NodeJS.
Cloud experience (AWS preferred; Azure experience also welcome), including serverless tech like Lambdas.
Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), and modern software design patterns.
Exposure to front-end technologies like React, TypeScript, or Astro is a bonus.
Proactive, collaborative mindset with the ability to influence and lead through change.

Whats on offer?