Senior Software Engineer

About Borderless

Borderless is simplifying the complexity of global immigration, starting with the UK.

Immigration is one of the most important - and most broken - systems in the global economy. It’s shaped human history, yet businesses and individuals hit friction at every turn, and government policy lurches with the political cycle.

Our vision is simple: a world where borders are no longer barriers, empowering the ambitious, wherever they are.

Backed by Entrepreneur First and Backed.VC , we’re already supporting 600+ businesses, 15,000+ workers and scaling fast into new sectors and markets.

Around 25% of our workforce is sponsored, and we proudly offer visa sponsorship as part of our hiring process.

Role: Senior Software Engineer

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help us build the Borderless platform. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be writing clean, scalable code while building our core immigration product.

You'll work closely with our Engineering Director, Head of Product, and the wider cross-functional team to understand the needs of our customers and solve their problems. We deploy our platform > 10 times per day, and rapidly review and iterate on feedback.

This role requires working in the office 3 days per week. If this is not possible for you, please do not apply.

️ What you’ll do

• Build our core immigration platform for candidates, businesses, and our own internal teams

• Write clean, scalable, well-documented code in TypeScript , React , and SQL

• Design and maintain complex data models for performance and extensibility

• Collaborate cross-functionally across the whole company: Product, Ops, CS, Sales, and Engineering

• Identify and resolve platform bottlenecks, technical debt, and stability issues

• Contribute to architectural and data design decisions

What we’ve done recently

• Built an automatic document classifier (using a combination of AI and LLMs) – customers can bulk upload any visa-related document (e.g. payslips, passports), and we’ll securely store, categorise, assign, and extract the documents to their workforce

• Introduced a queuing platform (SQS) for various parts of the application, to control asynchronous workloads

• Run an LLM-driven security audit on our existing codebase ahead of our next pen test

✅ You should apply if

• You’re a proactive problem-solver who enjoys collaborative work across multiple functions

• You have strong experience building full-stack web applications

• You think deeply about the structure and performance of web applications, and when to apply tradeoffs

• You’re excited by the opportunity to shape the foundation of a growing product, team, and company

• You want to grow with the business — this is a high-impact role with scope to move into tech leadership as we scale

• You’re excited about the way AI and LLMs are changing how software is written

Tech stack

We’ve listed our current tech stack below but please do not be put off from applying if you haven’t worked with every single technology!

• Typescript / Node

• React (NextJS)

• PostgreSQL

• AWS (Lambdas, CDK)

Interview process

1. 30m screening call with Talent

2. 1h interview with Director of Engineering

3. 1h technical interview with one of the team (pair programming task, no take home)

4. 2h Final onsite with [Engineering Director, CTO, and Product Lead]

Benefits

3 days in office, 2 days remote

Monthly company in-office lunches

Monthly company team events

✈ Annual offsite (our last one was in Palma!)

‍⚕️ Comprehensive private medical insurance.

Holidays & Remote Work

✈ 25 days holiday each year + 3 days between 25th December and 31st January, plus bank holidays

1-week work-from-anywhere policy

Growth & Development

£500 annual Learning & Development budget

6-month performance reviews and promotion opportunities

Equipment & Other Perks

️ Laptop and peripherals — whatever you need to work effectively

Cycle to Work scheme

Employer pension contributions via Smart Pension

Gym in Shoreditch Exchange

☕️ Onsite barista