Top Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Lead and grow a full-stack engineering team building Mural’s AI-native Compose product. Own end-to-end delivery, architecture, code quality, reliability, experimentation, and roadmap execution in partnership with Product and Design. Hire, coach, and manage engineers while maintaining a hands-on technical role through code reviews and architecture decisions. Guide production LLM feature development, including evaluation, quality monitoring, and cost management, within a remote-first culture.

Lead Volta’s global infrastructure engineering function for AI factories. Build and manage multidisciplinary engineering teams, establish design standards and reference designs, support projects from concept through commissioning, and align facilities with compute, rack, power, cooling, and network requirements. Own engineering governance, technical assurance, procurement standardization, safety, reliability, efficiency, and executive reporting while preparing facilities for next-generation GPU and liquid-cooled workloads.

Manages civil and structural design engineering for bespoke precast concrete solutions supporting energy, water, wastewater, and infrastructure projects. The role combines business transformation with technical design support, improving processes, systems, data, and ways of working. Responsibilities include interpreting customer requirements, developing manufacturable and commercially viable engineering solutions, collaborating across design, manufacturing, commercial, operations, and project teams, and supporting project delivery and stakeholder relationships.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation. Manage performance, hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, and cross-functional prioritization. Shape architecture, developer experience, accessibility, search, navigation, reliability, and multitenant capabilities. Engage customers and open-source contributors, improve engineering workflows through AI and automation, oversee operational standards, and participate in the engineering management on-call rotation.

Lead and manage a software engineering team to deliver scalable, reliable commercial trading and planning solutions. Provide technical direction, ensure operational stability, enforce engineering standards, manage vendors, and drive delivery excellence across cloud-native systems.

Paid 10-week engineering internship involving real projects across proposals, engineering, design, manufacturing, customer solutions, regulations, ISO standards, safety, and environmental practices. Interns collaborate with experienced engineers, may visit customer sites, and spend three weeks in the USA. Candidates must be engineering students entering their final year, live within commuting distance, hold a full driving licence and passport, and be able to travel internationally.

Leads technical development of AECOM’s Ground Engineering team, overseeing geotechnical analysis, design verification, project delivery, client advisory, business development, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Provides technical leadership, manages project schedules and budgets, builds client relationships, supports tenders, and mentors junior engineers. Requires chartered status, strong UK ground conditions knowledge, geotechnical design expertise, and a relevant civil engineering, engineering geology, or geology degree.

Lead electrical design management across multidisciplinary infrastructure and real estate projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include technical assurance, constructability reviews, design interface management, consultant and contractor coordination, stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and integration of civil, structural, mechanical, geotechnical, and electrical disciplines. The role also emphasizes sustainable, maintainable, reliable, and innovative engineering solutions, team leadership, client liaison, and full lifecycle design delivery.

Leads and coordinates engineering activities across complex projects, creating project plans, supporting budgets, managing risks, and providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams. The role partners with customers and external stakeholders to deliver safe, sustainable, high-quality solutions on schedule, while promoting continuous improvement and professional engineering development.

Lead a software engineering team through cloud-native modernization, managing hiring, coaching, sprint delivery, architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, SRE, and leadership to deliver reliable microservices and improve engineering culture, platform scalability, and cross-team alignment.

Leads Software Engineering, Data Engineering, and BI teams while overseeing applications, integrations, APIs, EDI, automation services, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and analytics. Drives technology initiatives, engineering standards, release processes, data governance, system reliability, stakeholder alignment, supplier relationships, and continuous improvement across business-critical platforms.

Leads engineering productivity and operations for the Maia platform, setting strategy for agentic software delivery, shared engineering platforms, CI/CD, release automation, observability, and developer experience. Owns engineering metrics, reporting, cloud cost optimization, FinOps, tooling, vendor management, and technical procurement. Partners with engineering, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security while leading developer experience, release engineering, and CloudOps teams.

Leads engineering delivery across design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and technical acceptance for complex nuclear projects. Manages engineering queries, design changes, safety-case impacts, interfaces, risks, supplier feedback, equipment qualification, and manufacturing nonconformances. Coordinates stakeholders, ensures engineering deliverables meet plan, and supports quality and project management activities within highly regulated environments.

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 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 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.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering site-specific Rolls-Royce SMR power station designs. Responsibilities include integrating site requirements with the generic design, managing engineering scope, budgets, risks and resources, directing systems and component activities, overseeing configuration and requirements management, and engaging customers, regulators and delivery partners across regulated nuclear infrastructure programmes.

Lead two software engineering teams of approximately 10–12 engineers, supporting development, performance, delivery, and professional growth. Drive reliable product delivery, improve engineering processes, remove blockers, and promote accountability, psychological safety, and technical excellence. Collaborate with Product, Support, Delivery, and Engineering leadership to align roadmaps and deliver scalable financial-crime detection solutions. Engage in technical discussions without coding day to day.

Entry-level software engineering graduate role on a three-year accredited development programme. The graduate will design and develop engineering solutions, work on new and existing products, complete discipline-specific and core training, and potentially rotate across business units or undertake an external secondment. Candidates need a STEM degree in areas such as computer science, computing, data science, or software engineering, plus UK work authorization and eligibility for required security clearances.

Develop and maintain cross-platform consumer mobile applications using React Native, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Build reusable components, integrate REST and GraphQL APIs, implement state management, optimize performance, troubleshoot crashes, support testing and CI/CD releases, and apply accessibility and usability principles. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams in Agile delivery environments while contributing to code reviews, experiments, and engineering standards.

Complete a three-year accredited graduate programme developing systems engineering skills through structured training, engineering assignments, and potential rotations or secondments. Design and develop engineering solutions for Thales products, build professional competencies and networks, and work with experienced engineers across the engineering lifecycle. The role requires a relevant STEM degree, permanent UK work rights, UK security clearance, and eligibility for a UK Eyes Only programme.

Entry-level graduate role in supportability engineering within Thales’ three-year Engineering Development Programme. The successful candidate will develop engineering skills, contribute to new and existing products, complete accredited training, and potentially rotate across business units or undertake a partner secondment. Candidates need a relevant STEM degree, UK work authorization, and eligibility for BPSS and SC security clearance, including UK nationality and residency requirements.

Four-year Level 6 Software Engineering Degree Apprentice supporting software development, requirements and design activities, project reviews, engineering investigations, testing, integration, verification, validation and qualification. The apprentice will study one day weekly at Manchester Metropolitan University and work four days at Thales’ Cheadle site. Successful completion leads to a Software Engineer role. The position requires UK work authorization, BPSS and SC clearance, and compliance with UK Eyes Only nationality restrictions.

Develop and ship software for Avakin Life, a large-scale social gaming platform serving millions of users. Opportunities span Unity and game development, backend and platform engineering, general software engineering, and AI-focused technology work. Engineers will collaborate remotely across the UK and EU, solve technical challenges at scale, and build virtual-world experiences that support global social interaction.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.