Top Backend Jobs in Manchester

Develop and maintain secure, reliable backend services for GitLab repository workflows using Ruby and GraphQL. Responsibilities include designing APIs and data models, optimizing SQL queries and performance, implementing caching and rate limiting, testing, troubleshooting, monitoring production systems, participating in Tier 2 on-call, improving observability, and collaborating asynchronously across engineering and product teams.

Build scalable backend systems, data pipelines, APIs, and services for Zscaler’s Threat Intelligence team. Process and index large volumes of threat data, improve performance and engineering practices, and collaborate with malware reverse engineering teams to enhance threat detection. The role requires Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, distributed systems, REST APIs, SQL optimization, and backend database expertise, with preferred experience in AI/LLM workflows, malware automation, Django, Kubernetes, and search engines.

Build and maintain secure, performant backend services for GitLab’s Change Record team using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL. Develop APIs, data models, business logic, tests, and user-facing workflows while improving reliability through performance tuning, caching, observability, rate limiting, and resiliency. Collaborate across teams, support production systems through Tier 2 on-call, troubleshoot incidents, and use AI coding agents responsibly.

Build and maintain scalable backend systems for the FollowScores football app. Develop Golang microservices, REST APIs, and WebSocket services using Redis and GCP to deliver high-performance real-time updates to iOS and Android users. Responsibilities include integrating third-party systems, developing robust high-availability software, meeting business requirements, and collaborating with technical teams.

Leads technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; solves production issues; improves engineering quality, reliability, security, testing, and observability; and mentors engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable architectures, write production code, lead architecture decisions, solve complex engineering problems, and drive initiatives from concept through production. Improve engineering quality across testing, security, observability, and development practices while mentoring engineers and coordinating work across teams and products.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Build and own event-driven microservices for M-KOPA Mobility’s electric-mobility financing platform. Responsibilities include designing C#/.NET backend solutions, managing production systems, applying DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices, implementing automated testing and continuous delivery, and using observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. The role involves collaborating across global teams, contributing to architecture decisions, monitoring services, and leveraging AI coding tools such as Claude Code.

Design and evolve high-scale backend capabilities for GitLab’s container registry. Drive architecture, performance, reliability, security, APIs, testing, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, participate in incident response, and collaborate asynchronously across product, infrastructure, data, frontend, and security teams. Integrate and evaluate agentic AI systems in production engineering workflows while promoting responsible and effective use.

Design, implement, and evolve complex backend capabilities for GitLab’s global DevSecOps platform. Drive architecture and technical direction, improve quality, security, availability, performance, and operational readiness, and participate in incident response. Mentor engineers, lead through technical influence, collaborate asynchronously across product and infrastructure teams, and integrate reliable agentic AI systems into production engineering workflows.

Owns global technical recruiting for AI/ML, software engineering, infrastructure, web, and mobile teams. Responsibilities include developing recruiting strategy, leading critical searches, partnering with engineering leadership, setting hiring standards, building and coaching a technical recruiting team, improving recruiting processes through data and market intelligence, and expanding talent networks across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Develop Rust software for managing and adapting cloud resources in Kubernetes environments. Collaborate on architecture, infrastructure, and feature design while debugging distributed systems and engaging directly with users. The role requires production Rust experience, cloud-native infrastructure knowledge, and familiarity with datastores, message brokers, and GitOps tooling. Experience with developer tools, Kubernetes operators, or DevOps platforms is preferred.

Develop and maintain scalable .NET backend services, REST and GraphQL APIs, and microservices. Design SQL Server schemas, optimize queries, implement Entity Framework Core data access, and build secure authentication flows. Collaborate in Agile teams with product, frontend, and QA stakeholders. Write automated tests, apply Clean Architecture and DDD, resolve performance and production issues, maintain API documentation, and support Azure DevOps CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, and structured logging.

Develop and maintain scalable Atlassian cloud products using Kotlin, Java, and server-side technologies. Responsibilities include writing clean, testable code, creating unit and integration tests, conducting code reviews, designing APIs, optimizing performance, and collaborating with product, design, QA, and technical writing teams. The role requires building distributed systems using Kubernetes and AWS, working with SQL and NoSQL databases, and solving complex customer and product challenges autonomously in a remote environment.

Leads development of scalable backend and platform capabilities across the full software lifecycle. Designs cloud-native systems, APIs, infrastructure, tooling, and ML frameworks; integrates AI/ML applications; conducts system design reviews; and ensures deployment, observability, and maintenance. Mentors engineers, influences technical decisions, collaborates with stakeholders, and applies data-driven practices to improve engineering productivity and product outcomes.

Design, build and operate backend services in AWS for a multi-service hospitality platform. Implement new features, payment and EPOS integrations, improve performance, monitoring and deployment automation using TypeScript/Node.js and databases like Mongo Atlas, Postgres RDS or DynamoDB. Collaborate in a UK development team and automate infrastructure, CI/CD and QA.

Architect and develop high-load backend systems in Elixir, design scalable distributed solutions, and improve ticketing and event-management platforms. Lead technical discussions, translate requirements into specifications, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote testing, documentation, maintainability, and production ownership. Optimize PostgreSQL and Redis performance, integrate third-party services, understand Linux internals, and address system bottlenecks and traffic spikes.

Leads high-impact backend and financial operations projects involving payments, transactions, middleware, GraphQL schemas, APIs, and data models. Provides staff-level technical leadership, drives architectural decisions, partners cross-functionally with Product and Design, and improves engineering standards such as testing, code review, documentation, and SDLC practices. Works hands-on across project delivery while shaping company-wide engineering culture and technical direction.

Design, implement, review, and validate production-grade Rust backend systems for AI training projects. Responsibilities include API development, persistence, asynchronous and concurrent processing, performance optimization, reliability testing, debugging, architecture assessment, and creating reproducible workspaces and containerized test environments. The role requires clear technical documentation, evaluation of edge cases and failure scenarios, and consistent delivery of approximately 15 hours of weekly project work.

Build and operate backend safety infrastructure, including automated moderation, abuse detection, AI guardrails, APIs, internal tools, and production services. Integrate machine-learning models, monitor system reliability, respond to emerging threats, and translate product, legal, and policy requirements into scalable technical solutions. Collaborate across engineering, investigations, product, legal, and safety policy teams while shaping the architecture and evolution of ElevenLabs’ safety systems.

Build and operate scalable AWS cloud infrastructure centered on Amazon EKS, networking, infrastructure-as-code, and self-hosted services. Automate shard deployments, implement Terraform guardrails and secure ingress, support multi-region growth, and meet reliability, disaster recovery, compliance, and security requirements. Partner cross-functionally, troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, participate in on-call and incident response, and use AI tools to improve engineering workflows.

Lead hands-on backend engineering using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Kafka-based services. Own technical direction, delivery, architecture, testing, integrations, and DevOps practices while mentoring engineers and championing AI-assisted development. Manage workstream risks, timelines, bottlenecks, client communication, estimation, and delivery planning in a fast-paced consultancy environment.

Build and own scalable backend microservices for call treatment orchestration, brand data, analytics, and billing. Design event-driven and hexagonal architecture solutions using Java and Spring Boot, relational databases, caching, and event-streaming platforms. Contribute to technical decisions, production support, reliability improvements, troubleshooting, and distributed team collaboration.