Top Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Own and deliver backend features end-to-end for a cloud-native, microservices platform. Design and operate distributed, event-driven systems, containerised services on cloud, mentor engineers, perform code review, and collaborate cross-region to maintain system health and security.

Lead and own platform architecture across Infrahub ecosystem, implement high-impact architectural improvements, reduce technical debt, champion AI-first engineering, provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and leadership to ensure scalable, extensible systems.

Lead architecture and technical direction across the full stack, solve ambiguous cross-cutting problems, deploy LLM-powered features into production, improve reliability and scale, mentor engineers, and make strategic build/buy and platform decisions that shape long-term product delivery.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer ensures the reliability and performance of the Mural editor, collaborates on technical projects, and designs APIs for real-time collaboration. Responsibilities include product engineering, mentoring, and improving team processes while focusing on performance and developer experience.

Lead decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices, design and operate scalable distributed systems (Kafka, Temporal, OpenSearch, Memgraph), integrate network telemetry and third-party APIs, maintain Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure, enforce SLAs/SLOs and CI/CD quality, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and drive platform architecture and reliability.

The Senior Software Engineer II will design and implement generative AI services, drive architectural standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance data solutions.

Lead the Market Making Engineering team in developing real-time quoting systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and enhance software and processes.

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository services: build and operate high-availability backend systems in Go, design package registries and APIs, drive scalability, reliability, observability, and mentor engineers while partnering across teams to expand artifact support.

Senior backend engineer for Engine by Starling's SaaS banking platform. Build and maintain backend services and internal tooling, design configurable features, ensure automated testing and continuous deployment, collaborate across teams, mentor colleagues, and lead projects or domains to deliver production-ready solutions.

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.

Lead the development of software solutions for a logistics platform, overseeing technical strategy, mentoring teams, and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

Build and scale backend systems for a large social game. Design microservices and distributed systems, implement backend best practices, ensure reliability, security, and performance, collaborate cross-functionally, drive DevOps and testing, and continuously improve processes.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and deploy scalable applications, lead architecture discussions, ensure compliance, and improve engineering processes while collaborating across teams.

Design and deliver .NET/C# desktop and device applications, build UI with WPF/WinForms, implement web interfaces with ASP.NET/Blazor, create hardware communication (RS232/Ethernet), integrate SQL databases, apply testing, document architectures, and coach team members.

Lead a small engineering team to deliver and operate large-scale Roblox game features. Drive technical planning, estimation, code quality, monitoring, releases, and mentorship while partnering cross-functionally to improve performance and player experience.

Build and maintain scalable, serverless microservices and APIs in Go; own services end-to-end from design to deployment and monitoring; use AI-powered developer tools daily; mentor engineers and improve engineering practices to support global fulfilment operations.

Design, build and optimise Python-based AI applications and data storage solutions. Collaborate with clients and teams, enforce code quality, CI/CD, testing practices, and deliver scalable production systems across cloud environments while travelling to client sites.

Build and own end-to-end cloud partner integrations: design architecture (auth, multi-tenancy, data movement), implement backend systems, run and be on-call for infrastructure/CI/deployments, work with external platforms and internal teams, and write design docs to set team technical direction.

Develop reliable cloud services on the hyperscaler platform, contributing to cloud infrastructure, databases, and monitoring systems. Must write reliable code with team-oriented skills.

Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters, automate infrastructure, optimize performance, maintain blockchain nodes, and improve system reliability while collaborating with product teams.

Lead design and implementation of scalable AI-centric systems for offensive security, develop agentic AI capabilities (LLMs, RAG), own feature lifecycle to production, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and integrate AI into microservice architectures with cloud, container, and messaging technologies.

The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer will develop features for a work and case management platform, optimize SQL queries, design workflows, and participate in architecture discussions while ensuring best practices are followed.

Work with experienced engineers to develop and support live-service mobile game features. Fix bugs, write clean C# Unity code, collaborate with designers/QA, and learn using mentoring and AI-assisted tools.

Design and evolve systems for Motion's infrastructure, focusing on reliable and secure operations across APIs, Linux systems, and cloud environments with a focus on hands-on coding and engineering judgment.