Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Manage a distributed team of senior and staff engineers developing and scaling Gitaly, GitLab’s Git storage tier. Drive complex infrastructure, performance, scalability, architecture, and maintainability initiatives while balancing roadmap and platform priorities. Provide mentoring, career development, technical guidance, and accountability. Collaborate asynchronously with Git and cross-functional teams, represent Gitaly’s technical direction, and ensure long-term platform viability through sound architectural judgment.

Lead and grow an engineering team responsible for Affirm’s international identity platform, including KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Own technical strategy, multi-quarter roadmaps, architecture, reliability, availability, incident response, and operational improvements. Drive major consumer-facing initiatives, cross-functional alignment, and technical execution across Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering teams while developing engineers and maintaining a high-trust culture.

The Assistant Professor will develop an internationally recognised research programme, publish impactful work, secure external funding, and build industry partnerships. Responsibilities include designing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, curriculum development, student assessment, PhD supervision, mentoring, knowledge transfer, enterprise, outreach, and departmental administration. The role also involves contributing to equality, diversity, inclusion, strategic initiatives, and a supportive academic community.

Coordinates the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Spatial Review of research laboratory facilities. Responsibilities include project planning, data collection and analysis, milestone and risk tracking, stakeholder engagement, reporting, budget monitoring, communications, and supporting evidence-based investment decisions. The officer may lead workstreams, manage smaller projects, recommend solutions and improvements, and allocate work to colleagues while maintaining effective project delivery.

Leads and scales Rapid7’s EMEA sales engineering organization, managing Solution Engineers and serving as the region’s strategic technical authority. Partners with sales, marketing, product, engineering, executives, and channel partners to drive revenue, retention, consultative security solutions, strategic proofs of concept, demonstrations, and enterprise deals. Represents the company at industry events and translates customer needs into product strategy while improving forecasting, leadership development, and presales performance.

Leads regional solutions engineering for contract logistics across EMEIA. Designs warehouse layouts, workflows, labor models, automation solutions, cost models, and customer proposals. Evaluates operational performance, drives Lean continuous improvement, manages warehouse technology business cases, and leads implementation projects across multiple countries. The role also develops the regional engineering team, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, supports business development, and ensures projects meet commercial, operational, cost, quality, and schedule objectives.

Manages a globally distributed team of Assigned Support Engineers serving enterprise customers. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, performance management, escalation leadership, customer recovery planning, cross-functional coordination, KPI tracking, capacity planning, process improvement, automation, and communicating customer outcomes and ROI. The role requires strong technical knowledge, including Linux administration and web application concepts, plus experience supporting production-critical environments.

Lead a team building integrations between the core platform and third-party systems. Provide hands-on technical leadership across APIs, message queues, webhooks, and data pipelines; drive architecture, delivery, reliability, testing, and observability; mentor engineers and coordinate with product and partner teams. Hybrid role based in Manchester.

A 24-month graduate programme specializing in façade engineering. Responsibilities include investigating façade issues through inspections, supporting maintenance and replacement strategies, advising on design and performance, and guiding clients on compliance, risk management, sustainability, and value. Graduates receive structured technical and professional development, with opportunities to pursue an MSc in Façade Engineering or Society of Façade Engineering membership.

Leads load testing and test tool operational support for 4G/5G mobility systems. Coordinates certification, regression, performance, and service validation activities; maintains testing platforms and infrastructure; troubleshoots operational issues; manages incidents and enhancements; supports upgrades, capacity planning, automation, documentation, and 24x7 global operations. Partners with engineering teams, vendors, labs, and international stakeholders to improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.

Lead a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, build, release, and run international pricing platforms. Ensure operational stability, deliver high-quality cloud-first solutions, drive engineering excellence, DORA standards, and cross-functional requirements like security and performance. Partner with Product and Delivery to meet business goals and enable scalable pricing across international markets.

As an AI Automations Engineer, you will design and build tooling for GTM, Operations, and Finance teams, automating processes and enhancing systems with a focus on AI.

Twelve-month software engineering internship for computer science students. Interns will deliver small tickets with guidance, write TypeScript or C# .NET code and unit tests, participate in code reviews and sprint ceremonies, use Git workflows, query existing databases, and learn Azure, Kubernetes, platform architecture, and insurance processes. The role emphasizes mentorship, feedback, secure coding, AI-assisted development, and communicating progress and blockers.

Leads civil engineering planning, design, permitting, and infrastructure projects. Prepares technical reports, specifications, plans, cost estimates, and feasibility analyses; evaluates site, soil, drainage, and hydrological conditions; manages project budgets and schedules; conducts field inspections; reviews quality; and supervises, mentors, and trains engineering staff. Collaborates with clients, subcontractors, technical directors, and multidisciplinary teams while applying sustainability, resiliency, regulatory, and safety standards.

Technical Sales Engineering Interns gain field sales experience, collaborate with business units, support customer solutions, conduct market analysis and case studies, manage project kickoffs, identify high-growth accounts, and present findings to company leaders. The role combines electrical engineering knowledge with technical selling, customer engagement, and solution development for semiconductor applications.

A 24-month graduate programme developing electronics engineering skills through electronic assembly, testing, fault finding, process improvement, quality initiatives, new product introduction, validation, and manufacturing projects. Participants receive mentoring, learn Lean Manufacturing methodologies, gain exposure to advanced CO₂ laser technology, travel internationally for specialist training, and present their work to senior leaders.

Lead and manage engineering teams responsible for business-critical in-store payments and infrastructure. Drive engineering excellence, reliability, vendor management, modernisation, and delivery across complex, hardware-integrated retail systems while remaining hands-on to resolve production issues.

The Software Engineering Manager will lead a high-performing team, oversee project delivery, provide technical guidance, and enhance software quality and architecture across the M&S Identity Platform.

Lead and grow mobile engineering teams (iOS/Android), set technical strategy and OKRs, drive architecture, CI/CD, testing and reliability, partner with product and delivery, hire and coach managers, and ensure operational excellence across native mobile apps.

Manage a software engineering team, oversee Agile project delivery, provide technical leadership, ensure quality standards, and mentor engineers.

Leads multidisciplinary engineering design management across infrastructure and real estate projects. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, consultant and contractor coordination, design interface management, stakeholder liaison, and delivery of compliant, sustainable, maintainable solutions throughout the project lifecycle.

Leads the M&S Cloud Platform engineering team building AI engineering platforms, reusable pipelines, tooling, plugins, frameworks, and developer self-service capabilities. Responsibilities include technical strategy, platform ownership, architecture, DevOps, reliability, vendor management, recruitment, talent development, and line management of senior engineers. The role contributes code while driving engineering excellence, operational reliability, strategic alignment, and improved developer experience across more than 200 engineers and 30 applications.

Leads the team building the SRE function and owns its technical vision, platform capabilities, reusable tooling, pipelines, frameworks, and developer experience. Manages senior engineering staff, drives recruitment and retention, aligns technical strategy, oversees reliability and operational excellence, partners with vendors, and contributes hands-on code. The role requires strong SRE, cloud, software architecture, DevOps, testing, reliability engineering, and people leadership experience.

Leads engineering design resources and delivers compliant, fit-for-purpose solutions across a nuclear project portfolio. Responsibilities include managing qualified engineers, overseeing large-scale design delivery to time, cost, and quality requirements, applying systems engineering principles, managing nuclear safety and EHSS matters, leading improvement initiatives, collaborating with supply chain partners, and ensuring compliance with nuclear regulations, standards, and project delivery requirements.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of scalable cloud data pipelines and products. Manages and mentors data engineers, establishes engineering standards, ensures data quality and governance, translates business requirements into technical solutions, and drives architecture decisions. The role uses Databricks, AWS, Spark, SQL, Python, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development tools to support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and business decision-making.