Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Lead and grow a distributed engineering organization building customer-facing security capabilities: proprietary scanners, AI/ML detection engines, agentic remediation, vulnerability management, and security foundations. Set vision and roadmap, drive architecture and delivery, partner with product management, establish engineering standards, and represent the group in cross-functional and customer forums.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Lead design and delivery of secure, scalable enterprise software for private banking. Build reusable frameworks, integrate AI/ML, ensure operational stability, mentor engineering teams, and influence senior stakeholders to drive digital transformation.

Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.

Design, implement and maintain reliability, observability and automation for large-scale services. Instrument services (OpenTelemetry), build dashboards, automate runbooks, resolve incidents, drive SLI/SLOs, and integrate LLM/AI tooling to reduce toil and improve system health.

Lead and manage an ML engineering team building post-origination credit models for repayment, collections, recovery, and loss mitigation. Define technical strategy, design and scale ML solutions, partner with product, engineering and risk, mentor engineers, and operationalize models to minimize loan loss and personalize collections.

Lead and grow a Europe-based full-stack engineering team building the Affirm App and direct-to-consumer products across international markets. Own the full software lifecycle, set technical roadmaps, hire and develop engineers, ensure reliability and scalability for millions of users, and drive cross-functional alignment with product, design, data, and business partners.

Lead a team that integrates third-party and modular features into GitLab's Dedicated SaaS platform. Ensure high availability (99.99%+), drive operational excellence, automate toil, own incident management, prioritize via data, recruit and develop engineers, and use AI to boost productivity and guide technical strategy.

Design and deliver end-to-end features for DAP onboarding and repository/background flows. Build autonomous and scheduled agents that act on customer codebases, improve onboarding experience, collaborate on shared interfaces, review code and designs, and contribute to an async-first, distributed team's technical quality and ownership culture.

Lead a 0-to-1 pilot team to find and fix high-leverage SDLC friction, instrument system-level metrics (MRPM, pipeline success rate, latency), recruit and mentor four engineers, design and implement durable fixes, and drive adoption across engineering teams while reporting metric-driven outcomes to leadership.

Lead the full‑stack Switchboard team owning the Dedicated tenant management control panel. Hire and develop engineers, partner with Product and Design, set technical direction, ensure cross‑functional delivery, drive quality/security/performance improvements, and operate large‑scale distributed services with strong SLO and operational excellence.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Lead and develop a team of Software Development Solution Engineers to drive enterprise adoption of Azure and GitHub developer platforms, GitHub Copilot, and security/DevOps practices. Coach technical presales, build reusable plays and demos, engage senior technical decision-makers, inspect pipeline execution, resolve escalations, and align product and go-to-market strategies to achieve measurable adoption and developer productivity outcomes.

A 10-week software engineering internship involving the full development lifecycle, including technical design, feature and API development, automation, testing, releases, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Interns use modern engineering practices, AI coding tools, source control, code review, CI/CD, secure coding, and reliability fundamentals while collaborating with engineers, architects, and product partners.

Participate in a 10-week data science engineering internship by applying analytical methods to business and engineering problems. Analyze and profile data, perform feature engineering, identify patterns and anomalies, and build automated models and analytical tools. Collaborate with engineering and business teams to translate insights into recommendations and scalable data-driven solutions. Gain experience in programming, advanced analytics, machine learning, distributed computing, and communicating complex results.

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.

Lead technical direction, delivery and capability for the Pricing & Promotions engineering portfolio across Manchester, Gurugram and Rochester. Ensure reliable delivery while modernising architecture, managing technical debt, improving engineering effectiveness, and aligning engineering with product, client and commercial priorities. Build senior leadership, stakeholder relationships and site leadership presence, with responsibility for budget, workforce planning and cross-location collaboration.

Perform routine maintenance and operational checks on automated material handling equipment, including cleaning, lubrication, adjustment, jam-busting, and monitoring. Assist with preventative, corrective, and reactive maintenance, identify root causes, implement fixes, and record all work to maintain equipment availability and safety.

Lead and develop an electronics hardware team delivering advanced laser and photonics products. Provide technical leadership, ensure compliance (EMC/LVD/RoHS), manage projects, resources and budgets, mentor engineers, and drive process and product innovation across multidisciplinary teams.

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.

Lead teams responsible for store payments and infrastructure, ensuring reliable, scalable production systems. Drive engineering excellence, platform ownership, modernization, reliability, CI/CD, observability, and cross-team delivery with stakeholders and third-party partners.

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.

Manage distribution and automation engineering projects including charter development, budget and timeline tracking, supplier specifications and contracts, consultant engagement, coordination with internal teams, capital expenditure preparation, and oversight of construction/installation, testing, training, and startup. Role requires extensive travel (up to 75%).