# Senior Application Engineer at Luminance

> United Kingdom · Senior · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/workable%3Aluminance-1%3AADBED70A40 (read 2026-11-11).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Luminance](https://alderhq.app/companies/luminance)
- Location text: London, England, United Kingdom
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United Kingdom (evidence: "Location: London, England, United Kingdom")
- Posted: 2025-06-06 (523 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-11 · last verified: 2026-11-11
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://apply.workable.com/j/ADBED70A40
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (London, n 44): p25 £83k, median £103k, p75 £126k

## Description (the employer's text)

Join Luminance as a Senior Engineer and help build our Contract Intelligence platform, turning the knowledge in business contracts into insight that teams can act on.

Our web-based SaaS platform helps enterprise teams understand risk, manage obligations and make better decisions across their business. You’ll solve complex engineering challenges in a growing company, building features used by customers across the enterprise. You’ll have the opportunity to take ownership of meaningful projects and see your work make a practical difference.

### Responsibilities

- Lead engineering projects from discovery and design through delivery and ongoing improvement.
- Build and maintain customer-facing features for our web-based SaaS platform.
- Work with product, design and engineering colleagues to solve customer problems across the contract lifecycle.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance delivery speed, product quality and maintainability.
- Contribute to reliable, secure and well-tested software.
- Take ownership of technical decisions and follow through on outcomes.
- Help troubleshoot production issues and support platform reliability, including participating in on-call duties.
- Mentor colleagues, share knowledge and help the team deliver effectively.
### Requirements

- 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience, with 8–10 years preferred, including ownership and delivery of significant projects or product areas.
- Experience building and operating customer-facing web-based SaaS products.
- Experience with TypeScript and React, or comparable languages and frontend frameworks, alongside server-side development. Our stack includes Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch.
- Practical use of AI coding agents to improve engineering productivity, including coordinating multiple agents on parallel tasks.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and diagnosing and resolving production issues.
- A track record of delivering software at pace while maintaining appropriate standards for reliability and maintainability.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to make thoughtful technical decisions and support other engineers.

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