Senior Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, production-ready applications across front-end and back-end, ensuring robust, efficient, and performant delivery.
• Lead technical decision-making within your squad, balancing innovation with pragmatic delivery.
• Design and build secure, high-quality back-end services integrated with our cloud platform.
• Drive best practices in code quality, testing, security, and observability across the team.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy, shaping how we build at Bright.

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code with comprehensive documentation that meets Bright’s engineering standards.
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment to support reliable software delivery.
• Identify and act on opportunities to improve development practices, tooling, code health, and maintainability across the engineering community.
• Collaborate with product managers, QA, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and engineering best practices.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Help shape team culture and engineering standards, fostering a collaborative and high-quality delivery environment.
• Work closely within cross-functional teams to ensure consistent, high-quality software delivery.

What We're Looking For

• Significant commercial experience developing web-based applications with C# and .NET.
• Strong experience with relational databases, including writing and optimising SQL queries.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decision-making and mentor other engineers.
• Experience working in a fast-moving Agile environment.
• Strong familiarity with CI/CD practices, tools, and automated testing strategies.
• Architectural thinking — ability to design scalable systems and make sound technical trade-offs.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience building web front ends using JavaScript and modern frameworks such as React, Vue, or Blazor.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Understanding of SOLID principles and software design patterns (MVVM, MVC, microservices).
• Knowledge of RESTful API design and development.
• Experience in B2B SaaS or domain-specific software (accounting, payroll, or professional services).
• Track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical standards across a team.

AI Awareness & Adoption

• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar to support coding, code review, and documentation tasks.
• An awareness of how large language models (LLMs) and AI-powered features are being applied in modern software products.
• A willingness to engage with and learn about AI capabilities as part of your ongoing professional development.
• An interest in how AI can improve development workflows, reduce toil, and support higher-quality output.