Senior Software Engineer
GitHub · United Kingdom · Engineering
About this role
GitHub is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in United Kingdom. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- May 7, 2026
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Job description
from GitHub careersGitHub 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
Join GitHub in shaping the future of project planning and tracking on GitHub as a Senior Software Engineer. Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate and collaborate throughout the whole project lifecycle. GitHub Planning and Tracking is a market-leading service to manage and track work alongside the code where it happens.
Learn more about GitHub’s project management tools: https://github.com/features/#features-project-management
In this role you will be a leader and multiplier within our distributed team who will not only design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences, but will also help us uncover and solve tricky and foundational scaling and user-experience problems that will unlock further Copilot integration into GitHub Issues and Projects. Ideally, you are comfortable working across the stack but tilt towards the front-end.