Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

We are partnering with a leading Utilities organisation undergoing a major digital transformation. As they continue to modernise their technology estate and build next-generation platforms, they are seeking talented Staff Software Engineers to play a pivotal role in defining architecture, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering highly scalable cloud-native solutions.

The Opportunity:

As a Staff Engineer, you'll operate as a technical leader across multiple engineering teams, influencing architectural decisions and driving engineering excellence throughout the organisation. Working on business-critical platforms, you'll help build resilient, high-performance systems that support essential services and accelerate the company's transition towards a more sustainable future.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Designing and developing scalable distributed systems using Go (Golang)
• Providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams
• Driving architectural decisions and best engineering practices
• Mentoring and coaching senior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborating with Product, Platform, Security and Data teams
• Leading initiatives around performance, reliability, observability and scalability
• Championing cloud-native development and modern software engineering principles
• Contributing to long-term technology strategy and roadmap planning

What We're Looking For:

• Extensive commercial experience developing software in Go (Golang)
• Proven experience operating at Senior, Principal or Staff Engineer level
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and Microservices architectures
• Experience building and operating cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Expertise in containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Experience influencing technical direction across teams and stakeholders
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Desirable Experience:

• Experience within Utilities, Energy, Infrastructure or other highly regulated industries
• Event-driven architecture and messaging technologies
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Platform engineering and developer experience initiatives
• Data-intensive and real-time systems

Why Join?

• Opportunity to work on systems that genuinely impact society
• Large-scale engineering challenges and modern technology stack
• Strong investment in engineering excellence and innovation
• Remote with just one to two on-site meet-ups a year
• Clear progression and leadership opportunities

If you're passionate about building resilient, scalable systems and want to help transform a critical industry through technology, we'd love to hear from you.