Developer
Glasgow / Edinburgh / Newcastle / Leeds / Bristol
This is a hands-on, client-facing role in one of our multidisciplinary teams. You will be helping to solve tough software problems for clients in complex industries.
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Being a developer at Scott Logic
Tackling complex, business-critical problems
Developers at Scott Logic take design seriously, avoid overengineering and favour simplicity above all else. As a developer at Scott Logic, you’ll be working on complex and challenging projects, collaborating effectively and ensuring a rapid pipeline from development to test and production. If you enjoy solving problems and collaborating to build great solutions, there are opportunities across all of our offices. We're also a Most-Loved Workplace, and you can find out more below about what makes the Scott Logic culture so special.
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Lead Developer
Glasgow / Edinburgh / Newcastle / Leeds / Bristol
This is a hands-on, client-facing Lead Software Engineer role. You'll lead and mentor teams throughout the development lifecycle to deliver business-critical systems for our clients.
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Find out more about what makes the Scott Logic culture so special.
Our People Promise
Our People Promise outlines some concrete, straightforward principles about how we will operate as a company. It underpins a reciprocal promise between the business and our people. We have ambitious growth plans, and we want to ensure that the fundamentals of Scott Logic remain as we grow. That’s what our People Promise is all about.
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Hybrid working at Scott Logic
At Scott Logic, our hybrid working approach realises the potential of being productive from home along with the benefits of working in shared team environments and spending time with our clients. We describe here how our approach works, including our categories of hybrid working.
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We are a certified B Corp
Scott Logic is a B Corp Certified™, meaning we are part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact. Learn more about what B Corp status means for our business.
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Our commitment to open source
At Scott Logic, we believe that open source offers immeasurable benefits and are keen to see increased adoption, while tackling the sustainability challenges. There are four main ways by which we deliver on our commitment, through Consumption, Contribution, Creation and Partnering. We are actively involved in the open source community, partnering on research, running meetup groups, and sharing our thought leadership.
Beyond the Hype podcast
Beyond the Hype is a monthly podcast from the Scott Logic team where we cast a practical eye over what is new and exciting in software development – everything from Kafka to Kubernetes, AI to APIs, microservices to micro-frontends. We look beyond the promises, the buzz and excitement to guide you towards the genuine value. You can subscribe here to Beyond the Hype and listen below to the latest episode.
Meet some of our current developers
Nelly
Lead Developer, Newcastle
“The working culture at Scott Logic is very collaborative and supportive, I've learned so much from colleagues and being involved in various projects. Every day I'm learning something new and I just love that."
Joe
Software Developer, Edinburgh
“Much of what I have learned about software development has been on the job, enabled by the culture at Scott Logic of constant learning."
From the blog
Tiny Computer, Big Headache – Porting Advent of Code to the Pi Pico
It's one thing tackling the Advent of Code (AOC) on a desktop or laptop but how would it fare on a piece of bare-metal hardware? Simon Martin put this to the test, migrating his 2024 AOC solutions to a tiny Raspberry PI Pico microcontroller to compare how it handled this challenge to typical machines.
Simon Martin
What I learnt about software development from the RAF
In this blog, David reflects on the parallels between his experience in the RAF to a career in software development, revealing how life in the military has equipped him to thrive as a technologist.
David Ogle
Detecting AI-written code: lessons on the importance of data quality
Building on their work investigating code quality from PR data, Amy Laws and her team set out to find a method to demonstrate the differences between human and AI-generated code. This blog details the findings from the experiment and lessons learned along the way.
Amy Laws
Pragmatic solutions to complex challenges
From the redesign of intricate trading platforms to the integration of agile test processes, our consultants are always stretching themselves to deliver excellent results for our clients.
Delivering a “tour de force” in trading technology
Discover how Scott Logic’s HTML5 experts helped to build a multi-award winning trading platform for Danish fintech company, Saxo Bank.
Full-service delivery of ScotPayments
How we supported the Scottish Government, from initial concept to the private Beta phase, with the technical development and delivery of a scalable platform through which public sector organisations can make quick and secure payments.
If you’d like to know more about developer roles at Scott Logic, we’d be happy to chat.
Drop an email to applications@scottlogic.com