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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Fat Potato
- **Location:** Cheltenham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Linux, Software Engineering, Containerization, Deployment Automation, Service Stack
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2842869978-software-engineer

## About the Role

You are:

 * An excellent communicator of technical concepts
 * Quick to assist those around you and help them develop their skills
 * Comfortable taking responsibility for technical direction and decision making
 * Respectful of those around you and keen to be part of thriving teams and communities, * Experience taking ownership and responsibility over areas of software, design, or engineering teams
 * Ability to hold and maintain a DV clearance
 * Ability to work at least part-time in a Cheltenham-based office

Strongly preferred

 * AWS experience, particularly AWS Certifications at Associate level
 * Understanding of containerisation and Linux operating systems
 * Automated deployment, CI/CD and testing patterns
 * Experience with Agile methodologies

## Description

As a senior software engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building industry-leading software in response to customer business needs. You'll be expected to take ownership over areas of software or entire systems, taking responsibility over the full software lifecycle, from design through to development, testing and deployment - often working across a wide range of technology stacks.

You will support or lead on customer communication and be able to explain technical concepts to business stakeholders. You should be comfortable mentoring more junior engineers, sharing your knowledge and influencing best engineering practices.

This is a full-time role, and in most cases you will work hybrid between home and office., * Develop high quality code according to best practice and industry standards

 * Lead on design and delivery of prioritised requirements
 * Communicate regularly with customers
 * Collaborate and knowledge share with other engineers
 * Influence technical direction and engineering best practices


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