Top Java Jobs in Manchester

Technical leader responsible for test strategy, design and implementation of automated, manual, and non-functional tests. Ensures test coverage across application layers, configures CI tooling, mentors and manages a small team, liaises with customers and stakeholders, and drives quality throughout agile delivery.

Provide technical consulting across the application lifecycle for MongoDB customers: assessments, architecture, deployment, migrations, optimization, operations, and training. Work with delivery teams, present to clients, influence product roadmap, and maintain billable utilization.

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.

Leads a 25+ person organization of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers across Identity and Financial Crime. Owns data quality, governance, lineage, observability, fraud and financial-crime models, production performance, monitoring, retraining, and domain data products. Partners with engineering, product, risk, compliance, legal, and central data teams; influences upstream teams, develops managers and senior ICs, handles incidents, and scales hiring and technical strategy.

Build scalable Java backend systems using Spring, REST APIs, microservices, databases, messaging, Docker, and cloud platforms. Lead architecture and technical design, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, drive delivery, improve automation, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities. Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient software with measurable business value.

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.

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.

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.

Build and maintain scalable backend systems using Java, Node.js, Spring, AWS, microservices, and REST APIs. Lead architecture and technical design, promote secure and reliable engineering practices, drive automated testing and CI/CD, mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, and evaluate AI and emerging technologies to improve software delivery.

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.

Join our Point of Sale squad as a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain systems that enhance customer finance experiences at checkout.

Develop and maintain accessible, secure, and high-quality Android applications using Kotlin. Translate requirements into maintainable solutions, integrate APIs, write automated tests, troubleshoot defects and performance issues, and contribute to CI/CD, architecture, code reviews, documentation, and engineering standards within an agile multidisciplinary team.

Application Engineer responsible for installing, upgrading, configuring, supporting, and maintaining compliance applications in UNIX, Java, Oracle, and AIX environments. The role includes troubleshooting, root cause analysis, vendor and business coordination, SLA-driven issue resolution, Jira and incident-ticket management, requirements analysis, SDLC project support, vulnerability remediation, and SME support for L1 teams.

Leads development, deployment, configuration, maintenance, and support of compliance applications in UNIX, Java, Oracle, and AIX environments. Troubleshoots SLA-driven incidents, performs root cause analysis, coordinates with vendors and business teams, manages Jira and incident tickets, supports L1 teams, verifies requirements, and assists with vulnerability remediation. The role also leads projects through the SDLC and serves as a subject matter expert for application support and sanctions-screening systems.

Leads full-stack software development for AI-enabled enterprise solutions, covering user experience, application logic, APIs, data integration, testing, and automation. The role advises business and IT leaders, resolves complex problems, shapes technology strategy, applies security and privacy principles, supports platform integration, and mentors engineers. It also requires mainframe application experience, broad multi-platform development expertise, stakeholder communication, and consulting capabilities.

Own and scale AWS infrastructure for a global SaaS platform, focusing on reliability, performance, security, and availability. Build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Chef; operate observability tooling; support migrations; drive SOC 2 practices; and partner with engineering teams on architecture. Respond to on-call incidents, lead root cause analyses, implement durable fixes, and evaluate AI tools that improve DevOps and SRE workflows.

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll provide technical support during sales processes, deliver presentations to clients, and engage with customers to ensure successful technical evaluations and product integration.

Owns client incidents and technical requests throughout their lifecycle. The role triages complex application, infrastructure, and business-flow issues; advises clients on installation, configuration, deployment, connectivity, and product use; documents resolutions; escalates unresolved issues to engineering teams; and participates in a global 24x7x365 on-call rotation. Requires hands-on cloud, containerization, databases, networking, operating systems, blockchain, and application troubleshooting experience.

Own customer production readiness and activation for Temporal deployments, establish reliability and operational standards, resolve complex technical issues, and lead KPI-driven technical programs. Guide customers through architecture, migrations, scaling, observability, upgrades, and production certification while enabling developers and architects through training and documentation. Partner cross-functionally to drive adoption, renewals, and growth.

Conducts pre-sales activities for Ping Identity solutions, including demonstrations, presentations, technical guidance, proof of concepts, and RfX responses. Acts as a technical advisor to customers, partners, and internal teams while collaborating with sales and post-sales teams throughout the sales cycle. Leads customer meetings, provides product feedback, mentors junior engineers, and develops subject-matter expertise in IAM solutions. Travel across the UK and internationally may comprise 15%–40% of the role.

Develop and support production-grade Java full-stack applications in a financial services environment. Responsibilities include system and feature design, cloud and container deployment, automated testing, DevOps, monitoring and observability, production support automation, incident and root-cause management, operational controls, and collaboration with development, infrastructure, and operations teams. The role also requires technical leadership and awareness of secure development, regulatory controls, auditability, data protection, and segregation of duties.

Hands-on senior fullstack developer building backend-led JVM services (Kotlin/modern Java) and responsive React/TypeScript frontends. Design APIs, event-driven workflows, tests, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and contribute across discovery, deployment, production support, and technical decisions while validating AI-assisted tools where helpful.

Designs, develops, and operationalizes large-scale backend, API, graph, AI, and machine learning solutions. Responsibilities include technical leadership, cloud-native architecture, roadmap development, testing, code reviews, mentoring, recruitment, stakeholder communication, and improving engineering processes. The role requires extensive Java and Spring experience, AWS cloud development, RESTful APIs, stream processing, low-latency applications, generative and agentic AI, and strong software delivery practices.