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Staff Software Engineer

Company

Opus 2

Location

Edinburgh, Scotland

Posted

June 10, 2026

Position Overview

Staff engineering at Opus 2 is about what happens when complex problems span multiple teams or systems and someone needs to make them tractable. You'll set technical direction across a domain, lead the work that no single squad can pick up alone, and shape how the engineering organisation builds software at the pace AI is forcing on us. We want staff engineers who treat the messy, ambiguous, cross-cutting problems as the most interesting ones to work on.

This is an IC role with broad influence. You can grow toward Principal from here.

What you'll do

  • Lead initiatives that span teams or systems. Domain-level work that's large, ambiguous, and business-critical. You break it into actionable pieces and mobilise teams to deliver.
  • Set technical direction across teams. Architecture, technology choices, system shape. You make calls that hold up over years and explain them so others can carry them forward.
  • Resolve systemic issu...
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