Top Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Design, build, and ship production-ready software; decompose ambiguous problems into system architectures; modernise legacy systems and develop greenfield features; own technical decisions, testing, observability, and documentation; collaborate with product and design and ensure operational readiness.

Lead architecture and strategy for Athena: build production-grade distributed systems that validate, deduplicate, and route vulnerability data; move prototypes to reliable, observable pipelines; set technical standards, scale the team, and partner on product and operational decisions.

Build and maintain scalable cloud-based data management and processing systems for biomedical research. Own platform components end-to-end, drive architecture and standards, improve CI/CD, observability, security, performance, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call incident response.

Design, implement, and scale robust Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto. Build low-latency distributed systems using RPC, Kafka, and event-driven patterns. Write testable, high-performance asynchronous network code, debug across OS/network/application stacks, own systems end-to-end, and mentor other engineers while collaborating with product teams.

Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale API gateways, edge routing, and high-throughput JVM backend services. Drive GitOps deployments (ArgoCD, Helm), improve observability, rate-limiting, and concurrency controls, integrate LLM-assisted workflows, and mentor global engineering teams.

Lead analysis and resolution of system performance issues across Akamai's distributed Linux platform. Design and implement scalable software and tools for performance detection, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deploy efficient solutions.

Lead backend platform development for National Security clients using cloud technologies, ensuring operational responsibility and agile practices.

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains embedded software for various hardware platforms, ensuring integration and reliability while leading software architecture efforts and mentoring junior engineers.

Roku seeks a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to its TV streaming platform by developing innovative solutions in a collaborative environment. Candidates should be problem-solvers with a focus on delivering quality solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll maintain critical data framework integrations, ensuring performance and reliability while collaborating with the community, affecting real-time analytics and observability systems.

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

Build and deliver internal data tools and platforms, support ingestion systems and promote operational excellence in a collaborative environment.

The Embedded Software Quality Engineer ensures the quality of software in the embedded systems market. Responsibilities may include testing, debugging, and validating software solutions to maintain performance standards.

Own and build core backend components in Go on GCP, including customer onboarding, entitlement logic, and data ingestion pipelines. Drive ambiguous features from design to production with testing and observability, participate in on-call rotations, lead multi-engineer efforts, review code, and contribute Terraform and GCP operational tooling.

Own and drive architecture for a major backend domain in Chainguard's clearing house. Build production-ready Go services on GCP with Terraform, design data pipelines to ingest and deduplicate unstructured vulnerability reports, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate on interfaces, observability, and roadmap planning.

Optimize Ubuntu integration across latest IoT and server-class hardware, lead customer engagements, and work with open source communities in a remote, collaborative environment.

As a Software Support Engineer, you will troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to Ubuntu and open source technologies, collaborate with teams, and contribute to community development.

The Sr Software Engineer II will develop management features for Couchbase's Cloud Native database, advocate for Cloud Native technologies, support sales and professional services, and collaborate with product and engineering teams.

Responsible for building scalable distributed systems, mentoring teammates, innovating on technical solutions, and improving team processes. Requires expertise in backend languages, especially Golang and Typescript.

As a Senior Blockchain Engineer, you will design and optimize smart contracts and blockchain infrastructure, collaborate with teams to ensure secure solutions, and lead development efforts in the DeFi ecosystem. You will analyze technologies, mentor staff, and enhance performance while maintaining security best practices.

The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-throughput systems for the billing platform, collaborating with teams, leading technical discussions, and mentoring other engineers.

The Sr. Software Engineer will develop public APIs, build integrations with HRIS, maintain platform services, and enhance code quality using Generative AI tools.

Design and implement low-latency, large-scale ads auction and marketplace systems. Build backend services for bid evaluation, ranking, pricing, pacing, and frequency capping. Integrate SSP/DSP sources, run A/B experiments, collaborate with product and data science, and ensure auction correctness, compliance, reliability, and performance.

Build and ship AI-powered digital pharmacy features integrated with EHRs, owning end-to-end development from ambiguous requirements to production. Use OpenAI, Langfuse, and Vertex AI; run architectural spikes, mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and scale production systems while collaborating with leadership.

Respond to urgent customer escalations and production incidents, diagnose cross-service issues, build rapid prototypes and fixes, coordinate across teams, support pre-sales validation, and improve tooling, runbooks, and operational processes using AI-assisted developer tools to accelerate investigations and solutions.