Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Consultancy

AWS - Typescript - React

Leeds City Centre with Hybrid Working

£50,000-£70,000 + Benefits

WRK digital is exclusively partnering with Parallax, a Leeds-based digital transformation consultancy, to recruit a Senior Software Engineer who thrives on solving complex technical challenges.

About Parallax

Parallax celebrates the curious—engineers who love getting stuck into tough challenges and building technology that genuinely moves the needle and demonstrates the art of the possible.

They're a digital transformation consultancy with innovation at its core, solving complex problems and building leading digital products for local and national SMEs, international clients, and blue-chip corporations. They don't shy away from projects that seem too out of reach, unachievable, or even impossible—they welcome the challenge and deliver success.

Their team features some of the most talented minds in the industry, working hard to stay on top of the newest innovations and always striving to be the best at what they do.

The Role

You'll spend most of your time writing code, solving complex technical challenges, and working collaboratively with UX designers, engineers, and others across multiple projects—with some of your time focused on improving how they deploy, scale, and monitor applications.

Their clients are diverse, operating across multiple sectors and geographies, often targeting global audiences. They work with technology they're passionate and excited about, using it to produce software and products that customers love.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a cross-functional squad to design, build, and ship high-quality digital products for clients
• Take ownership of complex technical challenges—unpicking problems and proposing well-structured, pragmatic solutions
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in languages and frameworks such as Node.js, TypeScript, and React (they also use other open-source languages and frameworks)
• Contribute to estimates and technical planning alongside your team and the Client Lead
• Communicate clearly and confidently with both technical and non-technical people—from clients to internal stakeholders—to explain ideas, trade-offs, and recommendations
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Support the design, deployment, and monitoring of cloud infrastructure—primarily on AWS (ECS, ECR, Lambda, CloudFront, RDS, etc.) and Azure (you don't need to be an expert, but being interested helps!)
• Promote strong engineering practices around code quality, automated testing, peer reviews, observability, and security, helping to instil a culture of quality and accountability in engineering
• Collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and QA to ensure solutions are user-focused, technically sound, and aligned with client needs

What You'll Need

Essential:

• A passion for technology and continuous learning
• Strong software engineering background with ideally 3+ years' experience building and maintaining production systems
• Strong hands-on experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks, especially Next.js, React, and React Native (other languages like Python/C#/PHP are a bonus)
• Excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence—able to collaborate effectively and adapt your style when working with technical and non-technical people
• A collaborative mindset—you enjoy working closely with UX designers, delivery managers, product managers, and other engineers
• Confident problem-solver able to troubleshoot complex systems and guide others to effective technical solutions, whilst being able to balance quality with delivery
• Flexibility to adapt your technical approach to fit existing technology stacks and standards
• Proficient with CI/CD pipeline design and automation using tools such as GitHub Actions
• Passion for code quality, with a strong understanding of TDD, automated testing, and peer review processes
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum methodologies and iterative delivery in cross-functional teams

Nice to Have (don't worry if you don't have any of the following—they'd still like to hear from you):

• Experience working on AI, IoT, or large-scale web and mobile applications
• Curiosity about mentoring or progressing towards a Principal Tech Lead role
• Experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments
• Experience using infrastructure as code (Terraform and AWS CDK)
• Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.)

About You

• You possess a strong strategic mindset and outstanding interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration at all organisational levels. You excel under pressure, managing multiple complex workstreams whilst inspiring and guiding your team.
• You're self-motivated, highly organised, and eager to challenge the status quo, driving continuous improvement in your own work and that of others. You have a deep passion for software engineering, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering solutions that drive tangible business outcomes.
• You show pragmatism around balancing the need for process and achieving outcomes.
• Benefits

Private medical healthcare (Bupa)

• 4% matched pension
• Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
• Flexible working
• Quarterly company Hack Days
• 1 professional development day per month
• City centre office in Leeds
• 25 days' annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days
• Team events
• Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP)
• Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary)
• 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised

How to Apply

WRK digital is managing this recruitment process exclusively on behalf of Parallax. To apply or discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact James or Charlie at WRK digital.

charlies@wrkdigital.co.uk