Top Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

The Engineering Lead will oversee and mentor a team of engineers while contributing to software development and guiding architecture decisions in creating modern web applications.

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.

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.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for Revenue Intelligence systems across web apps, backend APIs, event-driven services, data pipelines, analytical stores, and ML recommendation workflows. Improve reliability, security, scalability, and observability while remaining hands-on in design, implementation, incident response, and mentoring to raise organizational engineering effectiveness.

Lead cross-product engineering work: design APIs and data models, turn ambiguous customer problems into technical plans, implement and roll out features across web, APIs, CLI, integrations, and infra, debug production issues, and raise engineering quality through docs, reviews, and mentorship.

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

The Senior Software Engineer will develop full stack software solutions for public safety applications, collaborating within a strong team and handling complex software architectures.

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

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.

Build pixel-accurate UI from Figma and Claude-generated templates using TypeScript/React, and contribute to C# backend services/APIs. Establish AI-native workflows with Claude, implement telemetry, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and improve tooling and maintainability.

Lead design and delivery of reliability frameworks, tooling, and platform capabilities to improve uptime, observability, and operational maturity. Embed reliability into services, define observability and incident practices, contribute to production code, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical direction, and participate in on-call rotations while reducing operational load through automation and standards.

Lead architecture and multi-quarter initiatives for Tempo, Grafana's distributed tracing backend. Own ingestion, storage, query, APIs, and operational SLOs; mentor engineers, participate in on-call, collaborate with product and sibling teams, and contribute to the open-source project to improve performance, scalability, and AI/agent-friendly interfaces.

The Senior Software Engineer will architect and develop the Solver network, ensuring performance, collaborating with teams, and leading engineering standards.

Join Reedsy to develop and improve a collaborative word processor, adding features and ensuring performance and security for users.

Senior SDET who contributes across frontend and backend systems by building and maintaining features with a strong testing mindset. Develop and maintain automated tests, improve test coverage and CI/CD, investigate bugs, support regulatory and compliance testing strategies, and balance automation with exploratory and risk-based testing.

As a Lead Software Engineer at Anima, you will enhance existing products and develop new ones focused on healthcare technology. You will work with various technologies, join customer calls, and potentially transition into a managerial role while impacting patient care.

The Senior Software Engineer will focus on backend development, designing and maintaining APIs and services, collaborating on features, and enhancing integrations at Motion.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and architect scalable software solutions, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and improve engineering practices within the team.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you will develop and maintain web services for navigation solutions, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with the team.

Develop and maintain the macOS endpoint client for an endpoint security product. Design features, shape architecture, review code (including agentic AI-generated code), improve build/deploy/test automation, resolve customer issues, and track macOS/security technologies while mentoring peers and owning product areas.

Lead Bloomreach Professional Services integrations: design and implement solutions using Java and modern frontend frameworks, validate scope, assess technical risks, make architectural decisions, improve DXP add-ons and documentation, coach peers, and occasionally travel to EMEA clients.

Design and implement large-scale browser-based rendering infrastructure to execute and extract structured content from JS-heavy web apps. Improve rendering quality, performance, cost, and throughput at internet scale and productionize rendering research.

Build browser infrastructure and tooling to provide reliable, large-scale web access for an agent-native search platform. Research website-browser interactions, fingerprinting, client verification, and browser networking. Implement instrumentation, observability, debugging tools, and translate findings into production systems at internet scale.

Build and operate a managed PostgreSQL service for AI workloads: develop control plane and lifecycle automation in Go, tune PostgreSQL internals and ecosystem tooling, create migration tooling, integrate vector search, run SRE practices (SLOs, observability, incident response), and work directly with customers on architecture and escalations.