Senior Software Engineer

About GitHub

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview


Responsibilities

As part of this team you’ll work on Chat apps and deliver customer value with everything we do. 

This job provides an opportunity to: 

• Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals 
• Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one 
• Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption 
• Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Ruby (Rails), and Go 
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems 
• Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities 
• Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives 
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 

  ○ OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 

  ○ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 

  ○ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python 

  ○ OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fie

  ○ OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building and operating web services at scale 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)  
• Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
• Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.
• Experience building Slack apps, Teams apps, or chatbot/conversational interfaces — you've worked with event-driven messaging platforms and understand the interaction patterns
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns: prompt engineering, function calling, tool use, or building agent-style systems
• Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams across time zones 

 

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!