Junior Software Engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom • Posted June 01, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Posted: June 01, 2026
Category: Computer Occupations
Application Deadline: July 11, 2026

Role Description

The first few years of your engineering career shape how you think for the rest of it. We want juniors who are curious, who pick things up fast, and who take that early learning seriously. You'll join a squad working on real production code from day one, with senior engineers around you whose job includes growing you. AI is reshaping how all of us write software, and you'll learn that on the job, alongside the fundamentals.

This is an IC role with a clear path forward, and we invest in that path.

What you'll do

  • Build foundational skills on real production work. Well-defined tasks with senior engineers supervising. The work is small in scope but real, and your code ships and serves customers.
  • Learn the craft deliberately. Code review feedback, pairing, documentation, tests. These are the fundamentals that compound, and we protect time for them.
  • Use the tools well. Source control, your dev environment, CI, observabi...
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