Senior Software Engineer

Opus 2 • Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom • Posted June 07, 2026

Location Edinburgh, Scotland

Job Type Full-time

Category Computer Occupations

Posted June 07, 2026

Senior engineering at Opus 2 is hands-on, high-trust, and end-to-end. You'll lead complex, often ambiguous work from problem to production, raise the bar on the team around you, and help shape how we build software in a moment where AI is changing the work week to week. We're not looking for someone who'll watch that change from the sidelines.
You can grow toward Staff or Principal from here. This is an IC role, and the day-to-day is engineering with influence, not management.
What you'll be doing
Lead complex, often ambiguous features and projects end-to-end. Discovery, breakdown, shipping in slices, and seeing it land for customers.
Partner with Product and Design to translate user needs into pragmatic, well-scoped technical work. Call tradeoffs early. Keep the roadmap honest about what's feasible.
Raise the bar on the team around you, and beyond. Thoughtful code review, pairing where it helps, mentoring mid-lev...
            

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