Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Location: Mumbai, India (Andheri East)

Description: We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to lead the design and delivery of robust, scalable, and production-grade data systems across a high-growth, multi-venture environment. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives in hands-on build mode, and who can scale technical delivery without losing speed, quality, or ownership.

If this is interesting, we would love to hear from you!

About Accelerate People

Accelerate People is a venture of Blenheim Chalcot, a global venture builder with 26+ years of experience building GenAI-enabled companies across FinTech, EdTech, GovTech, and more.

Accelerate People (AP) is the UK's largest Ofqual-accredited End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO) for digital skills, also delivering across leadership and management, and HR. Founded in 2019 by Sam Sawyer, AP has completed over 8,000 assessments with a pass rate exceeding 95%.

Our assessors bring real industry experience, designing assessments around real-world scenarios. We work end to end with leading UK training providers — from apprentice webinars to curriculum guidance — to deliver strong outcomes for all stakeholders.

Our engineers build and own large-scale, business-critical platforms end to end, solving real problems with data, AI, and thoughtful engineering. Genuine ownership, not just tickets to close.

The role

We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to build scalable products, tools, and systems across our portfolio companies. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in hands-on engineering, writes maintainable code, and is deeply motivated by solving real-world problems with technology.

You’ll work closely with product and engineering colleagues in both Mumbai and London, driving delivery within a specific business. If you're passionate about engineering craft, product-led development, and delivering systems that scale, we’d love to hear from you.

Behaviours that we look for

- Solve problems rigorously, not reactively - breaking them down into tractable elements and considering multiple paths to resolution.

- Write clean, defensive code with clear structure and minimal complexity.

- Think about testing and observability early, automating meaningful tests and implementing relevant metrics/logging.

- Design systems for operations, not just development - considering CI/CD, resilience, cost, and scalability from day one.

- Use data to guide decisions, validating design impact, performance, and real user outcomes.

Key responsibilities

Working within our Engineering Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, you can expect to:

- Build and maintain scalable services, data pipelines, and backend systems.

- Write readable, efficient code and collaborate closely in code reviews.

- Automate robust test coverage (unit, integration, and/or contract tests).