Top Java Jobs in Manchester

Designs, develops, executes, and maintains automated and manual tests across functional, regression, integration, and scale testing. Collaborates with Agile product development teams to validate releases, manage defects, identify quality risks, and improve test automation and continuous testing pipelines. The role also evaluates AI-assisted QA tools and contributes to testing frameworks, CI/CD practices, and broader quality strategies.

Leads the Forward Deployed Engineering function, overseeing engagement portfolios, technical discovery, delivery standards, reuse patterns, governance, and production handoffs. Advises executives, shapes AI and platform strategy, identifies investment opportunities, and builds a senior engineering team. The role requires deep software engineering, architecture, AI, platform, and regulated-environment experience, along with strong portfolio judgment, communication, and people leadership.

Lead design and delivery of order management and promising services: build resilient APIs and integrations, own features end-to-end, improve observability and operational excellence, mentor engineers, and shape technical direction to enable accurate delivery promises and scalable fulfilment.

Design, build, and operate backend platform capabilities for content and media: federated GraphQL, event-driven pipelines, APIs, automation, and developer/editor tooling. Lead architecture, deliver production-quality code, and enable teams via scalable, reliable services.

Lead and modernise the order management software by building and managing a high-performing engineering team. Drive technical direction, standards, and cloud-native architecture, oversee agile delivery, quality assurance, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, reliable, secure systems supporting online growth.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend platforms for content and media, develop APIs, lead architecture design, and act as a technical authority.

Lead and grow a software engineering team to modernize order management systems. Drive agile delivery, technical standards, architecture, DevOps practices, and ensure software quality, reliability, and scalability to support online growth.

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.

Lead high-impact engineering engagements for consultancy clients by shaping architecture, making pragmatic technical decisions, reviewing code, guiding AI-assisted development, and delivering robust production systems. The role requires broad full-stack understanding across backend, cloud, data, web, and mobile; expertise in Java containerisation, developer experience, CI/CD, migrations, refactoring, and replatforming; and strong consulting, communication, commercial judgment, mentoring, and client-facing leadership.

Leads multiple teams delivering scalable, reliable software, data, and AI/ML systems. Oversees architecture, development, DevOps, deployment, monitoring, cloud cost optimization, and operational efficiency. Translates strategy into technology roadmaps, manages cross-functional dependencies, and ensures execution against business priorities. Builds high-performing engineering teams through mentorship, succession planning, and continuous improvement while advancing AI platforms and intelligent automation.

Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, scalable GCP infrastructure across regions and cloud providers. Lead automation, disaster recovery, observability, identity, key and secret management, hybrid connectivity, compliance, and CI/CD initiatives. Diagnose infrastructure issues, document architecture and operating practices, train colleagues, and lead complex projects from design through production. The role also shapes platform tooling, architecture, and engineering standards while contributing to a cloud-native banking platform.

Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, scalable GCP infrastructure across multiple regions and cloud providers. Responsibilities include cloud organization architecture, disaster recovery, automation with Terraform, Kubernetes platforms, networking, key and secret management, observability, CI/CD, compliance, and hybrid connectivity to payment HSMs. The role leads complex infrastructure projects, resolves client issues, documents architecture and operations, trains engineers, and establishes technical standards.

Design, develop, and deploy scalable web applications, cloud services, and microservices for Roku’s enterprise business systems. Lead architecture discussions, own projects, implement Infrastructure as Code, and ensure security, compliance, testing, and audit requirements. Collaborate cross-functionally, contribute to Agile development, improve engineering tools and cloud services, and deliver reliable software within tight timelines.

Lead and grow an engineering team to build and operate the M&S Identity Platform. Own architecture, scalable distributed systems, authentication journeys, deployments and DevOps practices. Drive agile delivery, technical standards, quality, maintenance, and cross-functional collaboration with product and delivery stakeholders.

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 the design and development of shared backend services and cloud-native platform capabilities. Drive architectural decisions across teams, build scalable and highly available systems using Java and AWS, mentor engineers, and champion software quality, reliability, performance, and security. Collaborate with product, architecture, and engineering teams on complex distributed-systems challenges.

Lead and execute testing for Matillion's SaaS products, embedding quality across the SDLC. Maintain and improve automation frameworks, perform automation/security/accessibility/performance testing, promote shift-left practices, mentor team members, and support recruitment and continuous quality improvements.

Technical Art Interns will collaborate with artists and engineers to improve game content pipelines and toolsets. Responsibilities involve developing technical solutions, supporting workflows such as destruction, rigging, and technical direction, and applying skills in 3D applications, game engines, programming, and production tools. Interns will complete a meaningful project, participate in critiques, incorporate feedback, and contribute to game development teams during a 12-week, in-person internship.

Design and operate scalable backend services for the complete customer order lifecycle, including creation, fulfilment, and completion. Build Java or Kotlin microservices, GraphQL and REST APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven workflows across payments, pricing, and fulfilment. Develop resilient, low-latency systems using distributed databases, caching, and modern architecture patterns while collaborating with product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services for the complete customer order lifecycle. Develop Java/Kotlin microservices, GraphQL and REST APIs, and Kafka-based event-driven workflows supporting high-volume transactional systems across payments, pricing, and fulfilment. Apply distributed systems, caching, resilience, and low-latency architecture patterns while collaborating with product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders.

Lead the technical vision and development of Elasticsearch’s core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, query execution, and relevance. Research search algorithms and data structures, contribute to Lucene, guide technical roadmaps, collaborate across teams, mentor senior engineers, and build high-performance distributed search systems. Serve as a subject-matter expert while driving projects from concept through completion.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platform services to support analytics, ML, and product teams. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and Kubernetes-based deployments, develop data services/APIs, and ensure data quality, observability, security, and compliance. Partner with cross-functional teams, document systems, and continuously improve performance and reliability.

Provides deep technical sales support for Red Hat Lightwell, demonstrating trusted software supply chain solutions in customer build environments. Leads technical discussions with developers, platform engineers, security teams, and executives; configures repositories and pipelines; supports proofs of concept; advises on artifact signing, SBOMs, attestation, dependency management, and policy enforcement. Collaborates with engineering, sales, consulting, partners, and customers while delivering enablement, advocacy, and market feedback.

Build and maintain scalable Vue.js web applications and enterprise portals for customer and internal users. Integrate frontend systems with REST APIs and Spring Boot services, create analytics and reporting interfaces, optimize application performance, troubleshoot across the stack, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and UX teams on customer-facing applications.