Senior Software Engineer

Sophos
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-8 yearsSkills: ["Go","TypeScript","Angular","React","GitHub Copilot","Cursor","Software design","Testing","Debugging","On-call experience"]

Senior software engineer role focusing on Go back-end development with opportunities to contribute TypeScript-based frontend work. Lead complex feature delivery end-to-end, participate in architecture discussions, mentor junior engineers, and drive improvement of tooling, observability, and production readiness in a remote-first UK-based team.

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Sophos
Sophos
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Senior Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior software engineer role focusing on Go back-end development with opportunities to contribute TypeScript-based frontend work. Lead complex feature delivery end-to-end, participate in architecture discussions, mentor junior engineers, and drive improvement of tooling, observability, and production readiness in a remote-first UK-based team.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain complex software features and services, primarily in Go, with opportunities to contribute to TypeScript-based systems where needed.
  • •Own the full lifecycle of your work, including technical design, implementation, testing, production support, defect resolution, and iterative improvement.
  • •Lead the delivery of well-defined projects or complex features, breaking work into clear tasks, managing technical risks, and driving execution to agreed timelines and quality standards.
  • •Contribute to design and architecture discussions, helping improve system structure, maintainability, scalability, and operational resilience.
  • •Participate in and lead peer reviews of code, designs, documentation, and test cases, while using modern developer tooling to improve development efficiency and code quality.

Key Requirements

  • •5-8 years commercial software engineering experience with strong Go background; TypeScript experience is a plus
Experience:5-8 yearsSoftware developmentGoTypeScriptBackendFrontend
Skills:GoTypeScriptAngularReactGitHub CopilotCursorSoftware designTestingDebuggingOn-call experience
Tech Stack:GoTypeScriptAngularReactGitHub CopilotCursor

Company Brief

Sophos
Provides enterprise cybersecurity software and services including endpoint protection, network security, cloud security, encryption, and managed threat response to protect organizations from advanced threats and ransomware.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Established Company
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Abingdon, United Kingdom
Founded: 1985
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