Overview

Sanderson Recruitment are exclusively supporting a FTSE 100 Financial Services and Insurance business in the search for a Staff Software Engineer. This is a unique opportunity to provide technical leadership, drive engineering best practices, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that support the organisation’s long-term technology goals. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical direction across multiple teams, mentor engineers, and play a key role in shaping the technical roadmap. You’ll collaborate with senior leadership to ensure engineering outputs are robust, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives.

Base pay range

Location: Fully remote

Salary: up to £84,000

Benefits: Share / bonus scheme, 6% matched pension and other

Contract type: Full time, permanent

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across multiple teams.
• Oversee the design, quality, and delivery of scalable technical solutions.
• Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, testing, and secure development practices.
• Collaborate with senior leadership on technical strategy, risk management, and roadmap planning.
• Lead the resolution of technical constraints, blockers, and integration challenges.
• Promote engineering values and facilitate clear communication and knowledge sharing.
• Identify and address technical debt, ensuring sustainability and continuous improvement.

Required Skills and Experience

• Significant experience as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer
• Expertise in React and NestJS, including server-side rendering, state management, and API development.
• Strong background in designing micro frontend (MFE) architectures and optimising CI/CD, automation, and testing practices.
• Extensive experience with cloud-native environments (preferably GCP and Azure, AWS experience will also be considered), containerisation, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform).
• Skilled in performance optimisation and secure development practices
• Proven leadership, mentorship, and collaboration skills across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and continuous improvement mindset.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development
• Financial Services
• Information Services