Senior Software Engineer

Candidate must be based in the UK or ROI to be considered for this role

Who We Are

MetaCompliance is shaping the future of Human Risk Management. We help organisations turn human risk into human strength by building a culture where secure behaviour becomes second nature. Combining personalisation, innovation, and human support, we deliver security awareness and compliance solutions that create lasting behaviour change.

This is a defining year for us, and we’re looking for senior tech talent with the desire to play a meaningful role in shaping what comes next. With the backing of Keensight Capital, we’re entering a new era of global growth—scaling fast and building with intent. James Mackay, our CEO is bringing a clear, progressive vision to the business, rooted in deep industry insight that inspires innovation and excellence. Our strengthened leadership team brings deep expertise in technology, commercial growth, and high-impact scalability.

We’re building a world-class technology function grounded in modern engineering practices, continuous delivery and leveraging AI innovation, coupled with a game-changing product roadmap.

How we work matters just as much as what we’re building. We’re creating an environment where high-performing people can do their best work—backed by flexibility, trust, and a culture that values clarity, collaboration, and mutual respect. You’ll have the autonomy to lead, the support to grow, and the space to bring your ideas of “what good looks like” to life. If you want to do the most impactful work of your career, inspire results that really matter, alongside a team that values communication, collaboration, and progress, we’d love to hear from you!

Why We Are Hiring

We’re looking for experienced Senior Software Engineers to join as key members of our cross-functional product development teams, as we build and scale our SaaS platform using the Microsoft stack.

This is an opportunity to utilise your breadth and depth of engineering knowledge and expertise to make a real impact within our Tech4Good product environment.

You’ll bring a passion and bias for action for solving complex design challenges and the know-how to balance simplicity and flexibility with performance and scalability.

You’ll actively champion high standards and be a role model within the team. Empowered to introduce new ideas, encourage experimentation and act as a key figure in shaping team direction. With proven experience of promoting good agile practices, you’ll help to foster rapid, high-quality engineering that ensures quality is baked in.

Working closely with product managers, the Tech Lead, and others in refinement sessions, you’ll be a leading voice in shaping the technical approach. Breaking down work effectively, informed by your understanding of the product strategy and user and business needs.

This is a Senior role where you’ll be making a genuine difference. As senior you’ll cultivate a culture of learning, openly sharing knowledge and expertise that inspires others and contributes to creating a first-class developer experience for everyone.

These are strategic hires into our business to further strengthen our technical expertise, continue the evolution of our engineering culture and approach, and further accelerate the modernisation of our technical architecture & platform as we evolve into becoming the no.1 Human Risk Management platform of choice.

If you enjoy thrashing out the best technical solutions, with other like-minded technologists, get a kick out of inspiring others along the way and want a role where you have a real voice and influence in tooling, technical decisions across the domain and our future technical direction, then this role is for you!

What We Are Looking for:

Technical

• In-depth software development experience, ideally across multiple stacks including a solid grounding in modern C#/.NET environments.
• Skilled in front-end development using modern frameworks, ideally React.
• An advocate of testing best practice, championing high-quality, well-tested solutions through unit testing, automated coverage, and continuous integration.
• Actively participates in code reviews, architecture decision-making, and hands-on development.
• Experience of designing and developing APIs.
• Solid understanding of non-functional considerations such as security, performance and scalability.
• In-depth knowledge of relational databases, especially SQL Server.
• Experienced in building and maintaining cloud-hosted systems and pipelines is beneficial, especially in Azure Environments
• Passionate problem-solver with a focus on process improvement and automation.
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic, pragmatism, and a high sense of responsibility.

Being a Role Model

• Proactive and passionate about mentoring and developing engineers.
• Excellent understanding of agile principles, with a focus on championing the adoption of Agile ways of working in teams.
• Proactively identifies and removes delivery blockers, driving continuous improvement in team workflows.
• Champions lean, iterative delivery – delivering small, fast, and high value increments.
• Fosters a positive, inclusive, and high-trust team culture.
• Encourages collaboration, continuous learning, and a shared sense of ownership.
• Drives high standards of code quality, test coverage, and secure development practices.

Cross Collaboration:

• A thoughtful listener who seeks diverse viewpoints and constructively challenges assumptions.
• A positive approach to seeking and responding to constructive feedback
• Excellent communication skills.
• Work closely with your Product Manager and other team members to estimate effort, refine work, and prioritise effectively.
• Partners with Tech Lead to help shape scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Collaborates with QA, DevOps, and Security to ensure end-to-end quality.

Your Career with MetaCompliance

At the heart of our mission is a passion for delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that empower organisations and create exceptional experiences for our customers. Guided by our five core values, we’ve built a culture that’s collaborative, forward-thinking, and driven by purpose. In 2024, we were proud to be recognised as a Certified™ Great Place to Work®, a reflection of the positive, inclusive, and supportive environment we’ve cultivated.

We offer an attractive compensation and full benefits package.

Our UK/ROI employees receive an initial 25-day annual leave allowance (which rises to 26 after 6-months & to 27 after 2 years), plus 10 bank holidays (In line with NI Bank holiday entitlement). We match up to 8% pension contribution, provide private medical insurance and enhanced maternity & paternity leave. Our technology roles offer flexible hybrid & remote working options and we celebrate our success with two full company socials per year, gathering our full global team to celebrate together in style!

What truly sets us apart is our people. We believe that diverse perspectives, unique skills, and bold ideas are essential to our success. When you join our team, you’ll be part of a community that values your contributions and invests in your growth. From continuous learning opportunities to meaningful career development, we’re here to help you thrive—professionally and personally.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities:

MetaCompliance Ltd wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.