Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
Posted 3 days ago by Softwire
£600 Per day
Outside
Undetermined
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Software Engineer role involves driving high-quality outcomes in a contract position for a media client, requiring a self-starter who can quickly grasp context and manage solutions. Candidates should possess experience in agile environments and be proficient in technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Azure. The position emphasizes the ability to communicate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders and includes backend and frontend development responsibilities. The contract is outside IR35, with a daily rate of £500-600.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive outcomes efficiently and to a high quality.
- Conduct high-level designs, solution management, and scoping.
- Understand and apply data modelling best practices.
- Translate technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.
- Work in an agile delivery environment.
- Utilize technologies including React, TypeScript, Azure, Microsoft SQL, and Databricks.
- Develop backend solutions using Java, Maven, and Dropwizard.
- Develop frontend solutions using TypeScript and React.
- Possibly engage with AI coding and traditional ML techniques.
Key Skills:
- Self-starter with the ability to pick up context quickly.
- Competence in high-level design and solution management.
- Experience in agile delivery environments.
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, Azure, Microsoft SQL, and Databricks.
- Backend development skills in Java, Maven, and Dropwizard.
- Frontend development skills in TypeScript and React.
- Familiarity with Python, AWS, and OpenSearch.
- AI coding experience and knowledge of ML techniques is a plus.
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Software Engineer x2 - Outside IR35 - Contract (Media Client)
About the role
Essential:
- Self-starter, someone who can pick up context quickly, drive outcomes efficiently, and to a high quality
- Competent in doing high-level designs, solution management, and scoping
- Understanding of data modelling best practices
- Ability to translate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders and bring them on the journey
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment
- Experience working with React, TypeScript, Azure, Microsoft SQL, and Databricks (if they don’t have all of these, that’s workable, but be good to understand any they don’t have experience with)
Skills & Experience:
Backend: Java, Maven, Dropwizard
Frontend: TypeScript, React
Python
AWS, OpenSearch
It would be nice if you have AI coding experience, and ideally some familiarity with more traditional ML techniques for things like entity recognition
£500-600 per day outside IR35
Start date: 26/06/2026
End date: 31/08/2026
About Softwire
Softwire is a leading UK technology and strategy consultancy. From enterprise to government, we help visionary organisations turn strategic ambitions into results at scale. Our practices cover AI transformation, data platforms, systems engineering advanced CX and experience design.