Software Engineer designing and building performant systems for desktop applications at Cursor, focusing on client infrastructure and developer experience.
About the role
- Take overall technical responsibility for high-quality engineering across large, complex services, from design through operation and continual improvement.
- Own the end-to-end architecture and design, producing and maintaining high-quality documentation and ensuring designs are effectively implemented.
- Work with Delivery Managers to plan complex technical activities, provide robust estimates, and proactively mitigate technical risks and issues.
- Build trusted client and partner relationships, offering guidance, enabling effective decision-making, and ensuring technically and commercially sound solutions.
- Provide technical assurance and mentoring for teams, supporting less experienced practitioners and maximising overall delivery quality and velocity.
- Drive innovation and best practice adoption across the Engineering community, motivating and empowering domain practitioners to create a positive and creative culture.
- Support the growth of our Engineering capability via recruitment, masterclasses, training, and curriculum development.
- Provide Practitioner Coaching and technical leadership to guide the development of other engineers.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading Full Stack Engineering teams, with advanced skills in .NET or Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries.
- Proven track record of taking technical ownership of large-scale services, including architecture, design, and delivery across the full lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of architectural and design patterns (serverless, microservices), with ability to lead and assure their application.
- Experience leading delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, TDD), providing technical guidance and contributing to planning and estimation.
- Hands-on expertise the cloud, delivering scalable, secure, and well-architected solutions.
- Experience mentoring and coaching engineers, enabling high-quality, efficient delivery.
- Strong client engagement skills, able to advise on technical direction and build trusted relationships.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Terraform.
- Consultancy experience, engaging with external stakeholders and clients.
- Exposure to public sector projects and delivery in complex organisational environments.
- Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
- Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
- Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
- Good communication skills, including clear, constructive written outputs and measured, respectful verbal delivery.
Benefits
- InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
- Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
- Hybrid working*
- Private Health Care Cover*
- Generous life assurance cover*
- Gym Membership*
- Monthly office lunch
- Onsite massage sessions
- 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
- Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
- Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
- Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
- Company Pension Contribution
- Profit Share Scheme
- Payment of professional subscriptions
- Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
- *Qualifying period applies
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