Senior Developer

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Glasgow or Perth or Edinburgh

Salary: £64,085 - £76,581 + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

Energy Markets (EM) is the commercial heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world.

EM plays a critical role as the asset optimiser, route to market and risk management function for all SSE's Business Units (Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios).

EM enables SSE to focus its expertise and capabilities in energy markets (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence and, with these enhanced capabilities, support value creation and decision-making 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 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.