Edinburgh Airport

About the Company

Edinburgh Airport is Scotland's busiest airport, handling almost 15.8 million passengers in 2024 - a record for a Scottish airport.

Flying to more than 151 destinations and on 222 routes, Edinburgh Airport Ltd directly employs over 600 people and with our partner businesses operating at campus brings the total number of employees to 7,000.

An independent economic study published in March 2016 by Biggar Economics showed that we support over 23,000 jobs across Scotland.

Edinburgh Airport Ltd has made a commitment to the Scottish Business Pledge - a partnership to champion inclusive growth and fair employment practices.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Edinburgh Airport

Job Title

Software Engineer - Full Stack

Job Description

Software Engineer – Full Stack
Digital
Vacancy type: Full-Time Permanent
Closing date: 26/03/2025
Salary: £42,600 - £53,800 depending on experience

Edinburgh Airport’s Software Engineering Team works to create digital experiences which help make travel better. Our products include passenger-facing websites, internal tools to help the airport operate smoothly and efficiently, and our Multi-Airport eCommerce Platform (AirportX) that we’re working on scaling globally. We’ve got some very exciting projects on the go, and we need you to help us deliver them.

The Software Engineering team is a small, distributed team of highly-skilled engineers who work across the entire stack. We’re looking for someone who can bring their knowledge and experience to the team and who will get involved in generating product & feature ideas, launching prototypes and MVPs, AB testing changes and then launching these products and features to production.

Our tech stack includes (but is not limited to) Node.js, React, Next.js, MySQL and Google Cloud.

What you’ll be doing

Work across the entire stack, using modern technology and frameworks such as Next.js, React and Google Cloud Platform
Learn about the exciting world of aviation and build digital experiences to help make travel better for our passengers
Get involved with product discussions and decisions
Build out our Multi-Airport eCommerce platform and help us scale to airports across the globe
Share knowledge and promote best practices with the other engineers
Help build and maintain our eCommerce data infrastructure

What we’re looking for
For this role, you should have:

Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
Experience in building data pipelines
Have experience working with cloud platforms
Be a self-motivated problem solver

The following additional Items would be nice to have, but are not essential for this role:

Experience working with data pipelines using Python and Apache Airflow
Experience with eCommerce and online payments (we use Stripe & Adyen)
Experience with AI/Machine Learning

If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply. You could add something we didn’t know we needed.

Who we are
We have fun and look out for each other
We like a challenge
We have a bias for action
We have a love for learning and innovation
We are proud of what we do and we care about delivering good results
We have freedom to set our own priorities and decide which tools we use
We can identify Scandinavian countries by their road markings

What we’ll offer you

Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
Annual discretionary bonus
Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday
We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here

Why EDI?
We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues.

The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out. So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.

Building a diverse workforce that is inclusive and accessible to all is a priority for our business. As part of this journey, we are proud to be the first UK airport to be endorsed by WORK180. They only recognise great employers for all women. Find out about our policies on our WORK180 employer page.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Remote

12-03-2025