IFS

Lead Software Engineer – Industrial Sustainability Reporting Platform

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12 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable APIs, services, and accessibility-first user interfaces.
  • Deliver AI-native features across front-end and back-end capabilities for carbon accounting, ESG data collection, and sustainability planning.
  • Evolve the platform into modular, event-driven, API-first components and make architectural trade-offs focused on scalability, maintainability, performance, and product impact.
  • Own application reliability and operational excellence, including telemetry, SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous service improvement.
  • Champion application-level DevOps practices including CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and operations.
  • Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Own code quality, documentation, automated testing, performance, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
  • Partner with Product Management, Design, AI, Platform Engineering, and other engineering teams on discovery, technical decisions, and delivery.
  • Identify technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve platform architecture and engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack software engineering experience across front-end and back-end development.
  • Solid experience with modern front-end technologies, particularly React or similar frameworks.
  • Strong back-end engineering experience, ideally with GoLang or comparable general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience designing and building scalable APIs, services, and cloud-native applications.
  • Strong understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, automation, and incident response.
  • Experience delivering secure, observable, high-quality production software.
  • Strong focus on code quality, automated testing, documentation, performance, and maintainability.
  • Ability to lead technical design discussions and influence architectural decisions.
  • Effective collaboration and communication across Product, Design, Platform, and Engineering teams.
  • Ownership of engineering outcomes from design through production.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP; event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or microservices; and relational databases such as PostgreSQL is desirable.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or contributing to engineering standards is desirable.
  • Experience with AI-enabled, data-intensive, sustainability, carbon intelligence, ESG reporting, or enterprise SaaS products is desirable.
  • Familiarity with sustainability frameworks such as GHG Protocol, CSRD, or SBTi and with observability, reliability engineering, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management is desirable.

Benefits

  • Flexible and hybrid work opportunities are available to support diverse work preferences and lifestyles.
  • Inclusive workplace experiences and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in a global, diverse environment.
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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees

IFS builds IFS Cloud, an enterprise suite covering ERP, EAM, FSM, SCM, and project/service management for manufacturers and asset‑intensive organizations. Its business model centers on software subscriptions and services for cloud and hybrid deployments, plus industry-specific modules and consulting. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, the company is privately held under EQT ownership and operates globally across industrial and service-focused markets.

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