637 remote software engineer jobs open to developers in the UK: backend, full-stack and AI engineer roles at fully remote startups.
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Own reliability and cloud infrastructure for B2B integration web apps; remote only from listed countries; several years building enterprise web apps, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Angular/Vue, Java 11+, Spring Boot, English; remote-first
Remote-first from Austria, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, or Poland only
Own scalable backend services and core APIs for a refurbished-products marketplace; Europe incl. UK only, valid right to work, European time zone, English; 7+ years, Go, distributed systems, SOA, SQL, relational DBs, basic frontend; remote-first, profitable scaleup.
Remote Europe only, including UK; must have valid right to work and be based in a European time zone.
Own Edge fleet manager and residential-network control/data plane for web data extraction; on-call rotation; 5+ years production Rust, distributed systems, deep TCP/TLS/HTTP/gRPC networking, proxy infrastructure, SLOs/observability, Windows/Linux/Android; bonus: mobile/desktop Rust, fleet management, anti-bot, scraping, OSS
Remote anywhere
Own Edge fleet manager and control/data plane for residential devices used in web data extraction; on-call; 5+ years production Rust, distributed systems, deep networking, proxy infrastructure, SLOs/observability, Windows/Linux/Android; bonus: mobile/desktop Rust, fleet management, anti-bot, web scraping, OSS
Remote anywhere
Own a self-service data platform for product, engineering, and GTM; 6+ years hands-on data engineering/analytics, Python, SQL, Snowflake or equivalent, real-time analytics, AI-assisted coding tools; manage the data team; Series A, equity and bonus.
Remote only from United Kingdom, Poland, Portugal, or Spain
Own and operate backend infrastructure for AI tooling and MCP services; global remote, async; on-call required; 5+ years, TypeScript or Go, APIs, OAuth/OIDC/JWT, PostgreSQL, CI/CD, Docker, IaC, observability; equity
Remote anywhere
Own reliability and operations for a hosted data warehouse service; on-call rotation, flexible hours; 3+ years production sysadmin, Bash/Python, monitoring/alerting, Ansible/Puppet/Chef, backup/DR, CI/CD, Git; bonus: OWASP, virtualization, SQL/DBA, cloud, SOC2, networking
Remote United Kingdom or Europe
Own durable detections for vulnerability and exploitation intelligence products; remote but must be in or around Cheltenham, UK; 5+ years, network/host detections, AI-assisted workflows, protocol analysis, DFIR, scripting; bonus: Suricata/Snort/Zeek, Nuclei, streaming systems; startup founded 2021
Remote UK, candidates must be located in or around Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Leads full-stack build projects across a SaaS portfolio while coaching teams on AI-native and agentic development; 7+ years, full-stack across infra/backend/web/mobile/databases, AI coding tools, CI/CD, testing, observability, architecture/security/performance.
Remote policy unclear
Lead secure cloud data platforms for UK public sector and utilities; must be in United Kingdom; strong real-time streaming experience, AWS, SQL, Python, enterprise-scale batch/streaming pipelines, CI/CD, IaC, regulated environments; bonus: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, UK government clearance exposure
Remote United Kingdom only
Own BI analytics platform architecture for insurance claims software; 8+ years data engineering/architecture/warehousing, 3+ years accountable architect, expert SQL, Python, Snowflake, dimensional/normalized modeling, PII/regulatory controls; bonus: dbt, Terraform, Airflow/Dagster, catalog tools; equity
Remote anywhere
Own security for cloud, colo, endpoints, Office365, AI governance, and vendor assessments; remote across global time zones; 5 years security engineering/admin/infrastructure security, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview, cloud, Linux, virtualization, IaC, LDAP, Docker, Git, JumpCloud, Microsoft 365
Remote Europe/UK; Spain, Germany, or United Kingdom
Build AI foundations for contract automation, owning agent tools, evals, and harness components for Operator; must be in UK with long-term work rights; TypeScript/Node.js, MongoDB, agentic systems, evals, AWS, Redis, pgvector; bonus: Bedrock, LiteLLM, Mastra
Hybrid/choice-first; fully remote from day one, but only for candidates located in the UK with long-term working rights
Own self-managed infra for mobile subscription/paywall SaaS; on-call; 10+ years infrastructure incl. physical hardware, 5+ years Kubernetes, bare metal, OVH/Hetzner, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, FinOps; bonus: Proxmox, Ceph, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Aerospike; fast-growing SaaS
Remote anywhere; optional onsite in Serbia or UK offices
Own full-stack clinical documentation features for healthcare, spanning SvelteKit UI, Python/FastAPI services, Postgres, and LLM-powered document generation; must have TypeScript, Svelte/SvelteKit, Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, LLM product integration, SQL/Postgres, AWS, Docker; bonus: FHIR/HL7, Temporal, Supabase, WCAG
Remote UK only
Own a product area for parking/payments software used by drivers and car park operators; UK remote only; on-call; full-stack delivery, React/Next.js or API work, layered/domain-driven codebases, AI coding agents; reports to CTO, small team.
Remote UK only; London office optional
First SRE owning the reliability platform for parking/payments systems; UK only, on-call ownership; recent hands-on ownership of Kubernetes platform reliability, Terraform, CI/CD safe releases, cloud cost reduction, incident response, observability/SLOs; first SRE, reports to CTO
Remote within the UK only, or optional London office
Own engineering security, compliance and assurance controls for a regulated fintech bank; UK right to work/background checks; hands-on production coding, audits/certifications, cyber risk/compliance, release/change, incident and resilience; early-stage, remote-first, reports via Infrastructure and works with CTO/founder
Remote within the UK, or London office optional
Own scalable database infrastructure across a multi-cloud global platform; 3+ years Linux infrastructure ops, Kubernetes/Ansible/Terraform, Bash/Python, PostgreSQL or MySQL; bonus: Consul; migrates stateful services from VMs to Kubernetes, supports observability and disaster recovery.
Remote from Poland, Ireland, or the United Kingdom
Own and build GTM automation systems for generative media and LLM API growth; UK remote only; must have proven GTM systems impact, scripting, data querying, APIs/webhooks, AI workflows, experimentation, CRM/data reliability; bonus: Clay, n8n, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Salesforce
Remote UK only
Own full-stack product domains for an AI-powered localization platform end-to-end; must reside and have legal right to work in UK, Latvia, or Spain; on-call rotation; 5+ years, Node.js, TypeScript, React, API design, queues, PostgreSQL, AWS, AI coding tools; bonus: open source, localization
Remote only from the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain; must reside there and have legal right to work there
Own API change requests, published API correctness, quickstarts/SDK fixes, and partner technical escalations for a crypto/fintech API platform; senior developer advocacy or partner-facing engineering in crypto/fintech/B2B APIs, REST/WebSocket, technical writing; bonus: exchange integrations, SDK or AI/agent surface ownership
Conflicting location signals: remote global, with Ukraine explicitly named
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39% of the 637 postings list pay. Among the 60 priced in pounds, the median is £109K a year and the middle half runs £85K to £141K.
352 companies have open software engineer roles in the UK. The most active right now:
Share of the 637 postings that name each skill:
Figures from the postings on this page, updated weekly. Last update 2026-11-02.
Median listed pay is £109K a year across 60 postings priced in pounds; the top 5% exceed £168K. A further 158 postings pay in US dollars, $135K to $250K, usually US companies hiring across the region. 61% of postings do not list pay.
365 of the 637 postings are limited to the UK, usually for payroll or time-zone reasons; 272 are open worldwide. 130 also hire in the US.
61% ask for 5 to 10 years, 24% for 2 to 5 years, 13% for 10 or more, and 3% are open to candidates with under 2 years.
60 in the last 7 days, 637 over the last 6 months, from 352 companies.
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