Staff Engineer

6 days ago

Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Opus 2 Full time £60,000 - £100,000 per year

As a Staff Engineer at Opus 2, you'll lead the delivery of large-scale features and projects within your squad while beginning to influence cross-squad engineering practices. You'll serve as a trusted technical expert, partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and user focused. You'll raise technical standards, coach engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability and reliability.

What you'll be doing
  • Own and deliver large features or projects from design through completion with minimal oversight.
  • Partner with Product and Design to align project delivery with business and user needs.
  • Lead technical design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Contribute to the wider engineering strategy by influencing best practices across squads.
  • Mentor senior developers, providing technical guidance and feedback.
  • Drive adoption of modern practices (CI/CD, observability, test automation).
  • Leverage AI to improve quality, delivery speed, and developer productivity across the SDLC.
What success looks like
  • You consistently deliver large, technically sound projects that meet user and business needs.
  • You anticipate and address technical risks before they become blockers.
  • You elevate engineering standards across your squad and influence other squads.
  • You mentor engineers, strengthening technical depth and delivery capability.
Requirements
What we're looking for in you
  • Deep technical expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, and API-first platforms.
  • Languages: full stack experience with a focus on Typescript with familiarity with one of Java and Go a benefit.
  • Infrastructure: familiarity with AWS serverless architecture and K8s.
  • Frameworks: familiarity with React and Spring.
  • Proven ability to lead project delivery end-to-end.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching skills.
  • Familiarity with scaling systems and operational reliability.
  • ~8+ years professional software engineering experience.
Benefits
Working for Opus 2

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world's leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you'll receive:

  • Contributory pension plan.
  • 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
  • Health Insurance.
  • Loyalty Share Scheme.
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
  • A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
  • Regular Company Social Events.
  • Yearly Development Retreat.

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