Senior Software Engineer
Job description
Senior Software Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Team Lead
Works closely with: Engineering Tech Lead, QA team members
Software: C#
Location: UK / Estonia / US (remote-friendly within these regions)
Role purpose
The Senior Software Engineer is a high-impact individual contributor who delivers complex work and raises the effectiveness of the team around them.
This role exists to tackle technically challenging problems, support less experienced engineers, and contribute to sound technical decisions — all while remaining aligned with agreed architecture and standards.
Experience and capabilities
- Strong experience as a software engineer in a production SaaS environment
- Proven ability to deliver complex, high-quality solutions
- Strong understanding of testing, performance, and maintainability
- Ability to mentor others and influence through example
- Sound technical judgement under pressure
Why this role matters
Senior engineers set the technical tone within teams.
Done well, this role:
- Improves delivery quality and resilience
- Develops other engineers
- Reduces technical risk
Key responsibilities
Technical delivery
- Design and implement complex features and improvements
- Take ownership of technically significant or high-risk work
- Ensure solutions are maintainable, testable, and well understood
- Help diagnose and resolve complex production issues
Technical leadership (within the team)
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior and mid-level engineers
- Contribute strongly to code reviews and design discussions
- Support the Engineering Tech Lead in maintaining technical quality
- Identify technical risks and raise them early
Collaboration and quality
- Work closely with QA to ensure confidence in delivered changes
- Engage constructively with Product and other stakeholders as needed
- Balance pragmatism with long-term thinking
What this role is not
- This is not a formal people management role
- This is not ownership of cross-team architecture
- This is not a substitute for a Tech Lead or Principal Engineer
- Senior engineers succeed by delivering difficult work and elevating others.
Perks & Benefits
- Remote & flexible working – with hybrid options in London or Chichester
- Fantastic team culture based on trust and belonging.
- Laptop & home office budget – £500 to set up your ideal workspace.
- Private Medical Insurance with Aviva, including Dental & Optical.
- Group Life Insurance & Yulife Wellbeing & Rewards.
- Mental well-being support – Access therapy, mental health sessions, and yoga through a free premium subscription to Headspace.
- EAP confidential benefit – 24/7 access to compassionate guidance & expert advice
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Training, support, and personal development
Skills mentioned
At Linnworks, we are revolutionizing ecommerce operations through groundbreaking technology, empowering online retailers to connect, automate, and scale their businesses from a single source of truth. Our Connected CommerceOps platform is designed to make commerce easier for everyone, helping businesses streamline their end-to-end operations. By providing greater data visibility and transparency, companies of all sizes can swiftly identify inefficiencies, reduce operational costs, and dedicate their focus to growth. We achieve this by automating time-consuming processes, connecting our users to a vast network of over 100 global sales channels and marketplaces, and consolidating orders, listings, marketplace integrations, inventory, warehouses, and fulfillment under one unified system. This approach gives businesses back valuable time and the control necessary to achieve success in the competitive ecommerce landscape. Our commitment to information security is demonstrated by our ISO 27001 certification, an internationally recognized standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), ensuring our customers' and partners' valuable data is robustly protected. The journey of Linnworks began in 2005 in Chichester, England, with a vision to simplify ecommerce. This vision was shared by SkuVault, an inventory and warehouse management powerhouse founded in 2011 in Louisville, USA. In 2022, Linnworks and SkuVault merged, combining their extensive experience, insights, and innovative solutions to further the goal of making ecommerce operations more efficient and accessible. Our platform enables businesses to manage multichannel inventory, orders, and fulfillment centrally, offering deep insights across sales channels and operations. We support businesses in automating key processes, including order management, inventory control, shipping management, listing, and repricing, all from a single dashboard. Linnworks is trusted by top ecommerce and retail brands worldwide, processing significant gross merchandise value annually and partnering with industry leaders like Shopify, Amazon, and eBay. We foster a culture of continuous learning and personal development, encouraging innovative thinking to support our customers' growth and help ecommerce businesses achieve extraordinary results.
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