Senior Software Engineer
Required skills
Job description
GitHub 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
GitHub's chat integrations put GitHub where developers already work — in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate, and collaborate directly with both humans and AI agents in the tools where their conversations are already happening.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll build experiences that bring the full power of GitHub — including Copilot — into chat. You'll help developers interact with AI-powered features, manage their work, and collaborate with agents and teammates without leaving the conversation. You'll tackle hard problems at the intersection of AI, developer experience, security, and massive scale.
This is a small, motivated team with a broad mandate. You'll have outsized impact — shaping not just the product but the technical direction, the architecture, and how we work. We're looking for someone who is energized by ambiguity and eager to jump in.
Responsibilities
As part of this team you’ll work on Chat apps and deliver customer value with everything we do.
This job provides an opportunity to:
- Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals
- Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com. Contribute to and improve our code base from day one
- Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption
- Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Ruby (Rails), and Go
- Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems
- Work closely with engineering leadership to guide technical investment and implement technical roadmaps and priorities
- Coordinate with engineering and product leads to define, prioritize, and task projects that help us meet business objectives
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
○ OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
○ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
○ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
○ OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fie
○ OR equivalent experience. - Experience building and operating web services at scale
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, or a similar language)
- Minimum 2 years experience using general purpose programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).
- Minimum 3 years experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.
- Experience building Slack apps, Teams apps, or chatbot/conversational interfaces — you've worked with event-driven messaging platforms and understand the interaction patterns
- Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns: prompt engineering, function calling, tool use, or building agent-style systems
- Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams across time zones
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
- Model
- Coach
- Care
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Who We Are
GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
Equal Employment Opportunity
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!