Top Java Jobs in Manchester

Leads the design and operation of highly available, scalable, and observable production infrastructure. Defines SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets; drives incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems; develops automation and deployment tooling; champions monitoring and observability; evaluates platform technologies; and mentors engineers. The role also applies secure AI-assisted engineering practices to improve incident triage, testing, and delivery workflows.

Develop and maintain frontend features for a high-traffic, real-time sports betting platform. Build scalable, low-latency, highly available user interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. Contribute to technical designs, performance improvements, estimates, testing support, delivery decisions, and ongoing codebase enhancement while collaborating with product owners and engineering teams.

Supports enterprise sales by discovering customer requirements, mapping them to SailPoint solutions, and delivering foundational implementations and proof-of-value engagements. Acts as a technical lead and consultative advisor, educating customers on architecture and best practices. Collaborates with sales, product, professional services, partners, and customer success teams while developing AI-driven and agentic solutions for demonstrations and customer outcomes.

Lead technical strategy and software engineering excellence across customer platform systems supporting warehouse operations. Design and launch complex, high-impact solutions; promote clean architecture, DevOps, security, observability, reliability, performance engineering, and testing practices. Influence technology and product investment decisions, mentor senior engineers, improve engineering processes, support recruitment and outreach, and foster innovation, autonomy, and engineering maturity across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and support scalable payment services, backend APIs, and integrations serving high-volume transactions. Own features through design, development, testing, deployment, and production support. Shape platform architecture while improving performance, resilience, security, observability, monitoring, and cost efficiency. Champion clean code, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices across distributed enterprise systems.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and delivery of robust order management solutions, ensuring reliability and scalability, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating across teams.

Design and maintain scalable backend systems using Kotlin and Spring Boot. Lead architecture and technical design, develop secure REST APIs, improve engineering quality through testing and automation, and guide delivery across multiple initiatives. Mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, and promote resilient, maintainable software practices.

Lead design, development and maintenance of scalable, secure international pricing platforms and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion DevSecOps and automated testing, mentor engineers, and drive observability, incident management and operational excellence across cloud-native systems.

Develop and support mission-critical finance systems, including bank ledgers and integrations. Design reliable, maintainable services, collaborate with accountants, treasurers, and internal stakeholders, and contribute throughout the project lifecycle. Engineers will work primarily with Java in a cloud-native environment using PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Grafana, and CI/CD tooling. The role emphasizes transaction accuracy, financial process automation, system resilience, and solving complex technical problems.

Designs, develops, maintains, and reviews mission-critical software. Responsibilities include shaping software features and architecture, breaking work into Agile tasks, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, demonstrating progress, and collaborating with engineering teams and stakeholders. The role may focus on backend or frontend development using Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and related cloud and deployment technologies.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop robust software solutions, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and innovate within the commercial trading domain.

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.

Develops data, software, automation, reporting, and digitalisation solutions to improve Quality Lab efficiency and performance. Responsibilities include data analysis, dashboards, databases, software development, workflow automation, systems integration, technical project delivery, system maintenance, stakeholder engagement, continuous improvement, and exploring AI applications. The role is onsite in Manchester and involves collaboration with lab managers, engineers, technicians, and project teams.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for Contact Centre technology. Design, build, and operate secure, scalable backend services, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, and event-driven workflows. Lead technical direction across teams while developing primarily in Java and guiding frontend work in React and Next.js. Integrate CCaaS platforms including Zendesk, Twilio, Azure, and Google, supporting customer self-service, colleague tooling, and responsible AI automation.

Lead the development, testing, debugging, and technical design of scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud applications. Establish engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, incident management, and operational excellence. Partner with architects, product managers, business stakeholders, and external partners to deliver commercial planning solutions. Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled development practices.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native backend systems and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion testing and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive operational excellence.

Lead technical design and delivery of supply chain and warehouse software at scale. Drive architecture, DevOps, observability, reliability and performance practices; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote clean code and engineering excellence across teams; support recruitment and outreach.

Lead technical direction and modernise international commerce platforms. Design scalable integrations for product, pricing, fulfilment, partner/marketplace flows. Promote engineering excellence, DevOps ownership, observability, and mentor teams while aligning technology strategy with business goals.

Maintain and scale Starling’s PostgreSQL RDS fleet using Terraform and Java automation. Build observability and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Dash0, Sentry, and Humio; implement business continuity, disaster recovery, failover, replication, and cross-cloud portability using CloudNativePG. The role requires database performance tuning, distributed systems expertise, secure automation, and production Java microservices development.

Develop and test cloud-based full-stack applications and prototypes using Java, Spring Boot, Python, TypeScript, Angular, and Azure. Build REST APIs, integrate microservices and event-driven systems, create accessible responsive interfaces, contribute to CI/CD and automated testing, and apply secure coding practices. Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and UX designers during discovery-phase projects. The role requires active SC clearance and occasional travel to London.

Designs, delivers, tests, and maintains secure, resilient network communication and private cloud solutions for underwater defense systems. Leads high- and low-level architecture, bids and cost estimates, customer and supplier interfaces, integration, root-cause analysis, security compliance, and penetration testing. Provides technical leadership for the networking team through recruitment, training, best-practice development, and tooling decisions.

Responsible for the technical deployment of the Guardian system, ensuring it meets requirements, integrating with client environments, and managing customer communications.

Build QA processes, test plans, release criteria, and scalable UI, API, and integration automation for Android, iOS, and web clients. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, conduct exploratory and release testing on real devices, and validate video playback, purchases, subscriptions, and A/B tests. Track quality metrics, flaky tests, and crash trends while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Design to improve product quality.

Designs, develops, and operates complex AWS-native software systems. The role owns technical architecture, production coding, testing, code reviews, observability, and operational excellence. It also builds AI agents and agentic workflows, develops LLM evaluation and regression-testing frameworks, creates data pipelines and ETL workflows, and applies infrastructure as code and AI-assisted development practices. The engineer provides technical leadership and collaborates across teams to deliver scalable, secure, reliable software.

Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of complex Java software solutions for government and national security customers. Build RESTful microservices, collaborate on frontend and backend systems, establish quality standards, conduct code reviews, explore new technologies, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves technical leadership, Agile delivery, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and working onsite at client locations three to four days per week after obtaining security clearance.