[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @YouGov

Role Description

The Platform team builds and evolves the platform used by our panel and research teams. As Senior Software Engineer, Python, you will build and evolve high-value products and services that operate at significant scale. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports: you will work autonomously on complex and ambiguous problems, guide more junior engineers, and contribute to engineering practices across the wider engineering organization.

Seniority here is about scope, ownership, and impact. We expect our engineers to be AI-native in the way they work, using coding assistants and development agents across their daily workflow, while remaining accountable for the quality, security, correctness, and maintainability of everything they put into production.

You Will:

• Design, build and maintain robust and maintainable Python services and applications that serve high volumes of production traffic.
• Own your software throughout its lifecycle, from design and development through deployment and operation, using self-service CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, and observability.
• Deliver your part of the team’s roadmap to the agreed quality and timescales and meet the reliability and performance standards for the services you own.
• Build comprehensive automated tests to ensure changes are safe to release.
• Take part in code reviews and architectural discussions and make sound technical decisions on complex and ambiguous problems.
• Identify and address technical debt, reliability risks, and opportunities for simplification to keep the platform healthy.
• Take part in incident response and improve system reliability so incidents are rare and recovery is quick.
• Guide and review the work of more junior engineers, supporting their technical development.
• Advise and influence colleagues and stakeholders on technical approaches and trade-offs.
• Use AI coding assistants and development agents for design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, and critically review all AI-generated output for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Share effective AI-enabled development practices and propose improvements to engineering practices and developer experience.
• Work closely with product, design, data, and engineering colleagues, and with the teams who use the platform, to deliver customer and business value.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience building and operating production software.
• Advanced knowledge of Python.
• A sound understanding of software design, testing, and engineering best practices, with experience of Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and operating services in a distributed or microservices environment.
• Experience with relational and/or document databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience with Docker and containerised applications.
• An understanding of production operations, observability, reliability, and performance.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and/or development agents in day-to-day software development.

Requirements

• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS, and with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging.
• Experience integrating LLMs or AI capabilities into production software, or building AI-powered applications and agentic workflows.
• Experience working in a globally distributed and remote environment.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• This is a fully remote role based in Poland; candidates must be based or willing to relocate to Poland without right to work sponsorship.

Benefits

• Best-in-class benefits to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• A sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace.

Company Description

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethical employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

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