Permanent full time
Build software used by thousands. Influence technical direction. Mentor others.
Our client is one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies and a major European provider of payroll and HR solutions. They’re now looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Dataplan team.
This is a hands on senior role combining deep technical contribution with delivery ownership and mentoring responsibility.
You’ll help shape and scale a cloud-based payroll and HR platform serving thousands of customers.
The Role
You’ll spend the majority of your time writing high quality code while also:
*Driving end-to-end feature delivery
*Partnering with Product on roadmap and prioritisation
*Mentoring and supporting junior engineers
*Leading best practice adoption (testing, CI/CD, observability)
*Contributing to architectural decisions
*Managing technical debt and platform health
*Supporting incident resolution and continuous improvement
Our Tech Stack
Core:
*PHP (Laravel)
*ReactJS
*JavaScript
*Relational databases
*Kubernetes
*Docker
*Linux
Desirable:
*React Native
*MariaDB
*Jenkins
*GitLab
About You
*5+ years’ experience in software engineering
*Strong experience building and shipping scalable web applications
*Comfortable in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery
*Strong knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles
*Experience supporting production systems
*Passion for mentoring and raising engineering standards
Bonus points for experience in regulated sectors (finance, health, govtech) or working with AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
What You’ll Get
*Opportunity to influence technical direction
*Exposure to enterprise scale systems
*Clear progression opportunities
If you’re a senior engineer who enjoys owning delivery, shaping solutions, and developing others — we’d love to hear from you.
Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.