Senior Software Engineer

EDF Energy; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 69,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable software solutions that support low-carbon energy access. The role offers a starting salary of at least £70,000 per annum, remote working flexibility, and customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing and gym memberships. Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in technologies like React, AWS, and NodeJS. Join this company and contribute to the journey towards an Electric Britain.

Benefits

Customisable benefits

Electric vehicle leasing

Discounted gym membership

Life assurance

Tech vouchers

Experience days

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with React and/or React Native UI framework.
• Experience with cloud architectures, particularly AWS.
• Expertise in at least one server-side language, ideally NodeJS.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable software solutions.
• Developing features using React, JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Creating well-structured, testable code to support automation.
• Supporting and debugging the software you build.

Skills

React and/or React Native UI framework

Cloud architectures (AWS)

Serverless architectures

NodeJS

REST APIs

App state management libraries

Test Driven Development / Behaviour Driven Development

Source control and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub, Terraform)

Jest framework

Automated testing (Selenium / Cypress / detox)

CSS3 / HTML5 / Typescript

Job description

About the Role

Ready to shape solutions that make a real impact? Join a team where your ideas drive progress and your growth truly matters. At EDF, Success is Personal. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll help build reliable, customer‑focused technology that supports millions of people on their net zero journey.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work at the heart of our product teams – designing, building and improving software that helps customers access low‑carbon energy solutions. You’ll play a key role in shaping secure, scalable services that support our transition towards An Electric Britain.

You’ll join us on a salary starting of at least £70,000 per annum, with flexibility to work remotely most of the time. You’ll also travel to one of our offices – in either London, Hove or Exeter – as required.

You’ll get hands‑on experience across the software lifecycle, from discovery to deployment. With opportunities to mentor colleagues, explore new tools and contribute to engineering standards, you’ll grow your expertise while helping deliver digital services that matter to our customers.

Who You Are

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving problems, working collaboratively and delivering high‑quality solutions. To be shortlisted, you need to offer…

• Commercial experience with React and/or React Native UI framework
• Cloud architectures, particularly AWS
• Serverless architectures
• Loose-coupling, queuing, and event driven architectures
• Expertise in at least one server-side language (ideally, NodeJS)
• REST APIs, design and use of 3rd party APIs
• Commercial experience with one or more popular app state management libraries
• Test Driven Development/Behaviour Driven Development
• Experienced in source control and CI / CD tooling technologies (e.g., GitHub, Terraform)
• Jest framework experience
• Automated testing knowledge and experience (e.g. Selenium / Cypress / detox)
• CSS3/ HTML5 /Typescript, React

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable software solutions
• Developing features using React, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Creating well‑structured, testable code to support automation
• Working across the full software lifecycle in an agile environment
• Supporting the software you build, including debugging and improvements

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary of at least £70,000 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

Closing date: Sunday 22nd February

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Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transitiontowards an ElectricBritain.