Senior Software Engineer

About this role

About GitHub GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom Overview GitHub's chat integrations put GitHub where developers already work — in Slack and Microsoft Teams

Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate, and collaborate directly with both humans and AI agents in the tools where their conversations are already happening. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll build experiences that bring the full power of GitHub — including Copilot — into chat. You'll help developers interact with AI-powered features, manage their work, and collaborate with agents and teammates without leaving the conversation

You'll tackle hard problems at the intersection of AI, developer experience, security, and massive scale. This is a small, motivated team with a broad mandate. You'll have outsized impact — shaping not just the product but the technical direction, the architecture, and how we work

We're looking for someone who is energized by ambiguity and eager to jump in. Responsibilities As part of this team you’ll work on Chat apps and deliver customer value with everything we do. This job provides an opportunity to: Build experiences that millions of people love and use every day, helping them to be more productive, collaborate more effectively and achieve their goals Have a real impact, take on ownership of GitHub.com

Contribute to and improve our code base from day one Foster technical growth across the team by researching new approaches, sharing insights, and guiding their practical adoption Write, review and maintain code primarily in JavaScript (React, TypeScript), Ruby (Rails), and Go Write architecture briefs a

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