Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

As a Project Manager, you will drive project execution, manage documentation, control budgets, develop schedules, report performance, and mitigate risks while fostering collaboration across teams.

Manage a cross-functional engineering team building GitLab Duo Chat's AI-powered features. Define requirements with product and UX, contribute to architecture for scalable agentic AI, drive delivery and roadmap execution, improve testing, observability, performance, and coach engineers to foster an inclusive, high-performing team.

Lead and scale a UK Enterprise Sales Engineering team: hire, coach, enable, and support enterprise sales cycles. Partner with regional sales and cross-functional teams to drive pipeline, support strategic deals, deliver technical demos, and build enablement programs while fostering a high-performance, inclusive team culture.

Lead the Geo product team for Self-Managed customers, owning roadmap, reliability, performance, and disaster-recovery replication. Hire and develop a distributed engineering team, deliver features and fixes, maintain runbooks and guardrails, respond to escalations and participate in on-call incident management, and define metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Ownership of backend features for Agentic Tools: design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, build secure scalable Ruby on Rails services, improve RSpec automated tests, collaborate across product and AI teams, participate in Tier 2 on-call, and shape architecture for AI agent interactions with GitLab.

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 and grow a distributed Solutions Engineering team across the Nordics and BeNeLux to win complex enterprise deals. Hire, coach, and operate as a player-coach; drive technical discovery, solution design, demos, POVs, and executive presentations; run forecasting and SE operations; embed AI fluency and scale repeatable presales playbooks.

Lead engineering teams to ensure secure, stable deployment and management of live services. Drive ITIL-based service management, incident/problem/change governance, operational improvements, and talent development while balancing 24/7 BAU with strategic change initiatives.

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.

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 enable the UWS hardware craft across sites: own talent supply and capacity planning, define and enforce craft standards and tooling, drive tooling budgets, and provide people leadership including development, performance management, and pastoral care. Ensure quality of contingent partners and adoption of engineering fundamentals.

Lead and manage large engineering design portfolios within nuclear projects, ensuring compliant, fit-for-purpose solutions delivered to time, cost, and quality. Provide team leadership, manage professionally qualified engineers and supply-chain partners, apply project systems engineering, nuclear safety and regulatory standards, and drive improvement and commercial contract awareness.

Hands-on workshop engineer assembling and refurbishing reverse osmosis plants. Perform mechanical fitting, pipefitting, instrumentation, testing (calibration, hydrostatic, PSV), inspection, packing/dispatch, and lead/offsite team tasks. Support apprentices and maintain quality, safety, and customer-focused standards.

Lead and deliver global engineering change projects on time, on budget, and to quality/safety standards. Manage multiple projects, KPIs and reporting, drive continuous improvement (Kaizen), reduce process waste, and mentor teams while ensuring documentation and compliance with company standards.

Lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise infrastructure. Collaborate cross-functionally, improve system performance and reliability, mentor engineers, assess risks, and integrate emerging technologies into infrastructure strategy.

Lead regulatory strategy and hands-on regulatory engineering for AI/ML-powered SaMD across EU MDR, FDA, and UK MDR. Prepare submissions and technical files, embed IEC 62304 and EU AI Act obligations into development workflows, support change control and post-market surveillance, train teams, and participate in audits and agency/notified body interactions.

Lead and grow a team of 5-8 AI engineers to design, build, and deploy conversational, generative, and agentic AI systems. Own delivery roadmaps, collaborate with product and platform teams, establish AI engineering best practices, build CI/CD and evaluation pipelines, and communicate technical progress and risks to senior leadership.

The Engineering Manager will lead the Forward Deployed Engineers, manage deployments of North platform, optimize performance, and ensure customer success while collaborating with Product and Sales teams.

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 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.

Lead multiple global software development departments delivering B2B integration solutions. Define engineering strategy and roadmaps, enforce SDLC, CI/CD, automated testing, and compliance (ISAE3402). Drive architecture oversight, delivery excellence, cross-functional alignment, and people leadership across distributed teams to ensure secure, scalable, high-quality SaaS products and continuous improvement.

Lead a stream-aligned engineering team to improve delivery, quality, and customer outcomes. Coach engineers, partner with Product and Tech Lead, own delivery effectiveness, use DORA metrics, ensure operational readiness, hire and develop talent, and reduce cross-team friction.