Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer at MLabs: Remote, United Kingdom; Senior; IT; Back End Engineer. This listing is part of JobGrid's Remote software engineer jobs from public company career pages. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Remote, United Kingdom
- Role classification: IT, Back End Engineer, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-04.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
Location: Remote - UK working hours
Remote | Full-time
Compensation: £100K - £130K
We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth financial technology organization who is seeking to welcome a talented Senior Software Engineer to its core technical team. This position operates on a remote-first configuration across the UK and Europe, with flexible access to a collaborative corporate hub in Moorgate, London.
Key Responsibilities
- Core Platform Engineering: Build and scale highly resilient, adaptable fintech platforms and component services utilizing core Java.
- Extreme Programming Collaboration: Engage in full-time pair programming to foster knowledge sharing, maintain zero technical silos, and optimize code quality.
- Continuous Refactoring: Constantly analyze and refactor production code to elevate design frameworks, minimize technical debt, and preserve system agility.
- Comprehensive Test Architecture: Author robust automated test suites, participating in a sophisticated continuous integration ecosystem where thousands of tests rapidly validate every single commit.
- Process Automation: Identify, script, and automate repetitive tasks to optimize operational efficiency across the development lifecycle.
- Trunk-Based Delivery: Operate within a mature trunk-based development and continuous integration setup, treating each code modification as an immediately releasable asset.
- Cross-System Rotation: Shift periodically across teams to maintain comprehensive visibility into the entire codebase, driving an shared ownership mindset.
- Performance Optimization: Account for throughput, high availability, and ultra-low latency constraints when delivering core features.