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# Senior Developer

- **Company:** SSE plc
- **Location:** Glasgow, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £64,085.0 - £76,581.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** .NET Framework, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Profiling, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Scaled Agile Framework, Data Logging, Transaction Processing (Computing), Concurrency, Backend, Low Latency, Api Design, Stream Processing, Splunk
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/senior-developer/47422711

## About the Role

across the SSE Group. As a Senior Software Developer, you will join an Agile engineering team responsible for building and enhancing market execution and transaction processing applications within SSE Energy Markets. You will focus on developing high-performance, reliable backend services for cloud-first, distributed systems operating across Azure-based and on-premise environments. Your experience with cloud platforms, concurrency, and modern engineering practices will contribute directly to the ongoing modernisation of business-critical market systems. You will Design, develop and support cloud-first, scalable software solutions that underpin real-time market execution and transaction processing systems. You'll work on distributed, event-driven applications that demand high throughput, low latency, and strong consistency, operating primarily in Azure-based environments with some exposure to other cloud platforms. Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of business-critical services, from

## Description

application and API design through to service integration, packaging, and deployment, ensuring solutions are resilient, secure, and built for continuous evolution. Embed observability and operational insight directly into applications by implementing structured logging, metrics, and alerting using platforms such as Azure Monitor and Splunk, enabling rapid diagnosis and confidence in complex, high-volume systems. Champion engineering excellence through clean design, automation, and security-by-default practices, improving developer workflows, reducing manual effort, and maintaining clear, pragmatic technical documentation to support long-term system scalability and change. You have Strong backend engineering experience using .NET / C#, building high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems, with practical application of concurrency, profiling, performance analysis, and troubleshooting to optimise system behaviour. Experience developing and operating real-time data processing or


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