Top Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, maintainable, high-availability systems for the FollowScores football scores app. Build backend services supporting iOS and Android applications through WebSockets and REST APIs. Own technical solutions from development through production, govern architecture and code quality, estimate work, document solutions, and mentor a small team of developers.

Architect and deliver resilient, high-performance cloud services for SailPoint’s identity platform using Golang and Angular. Design synchronous and event-driven microservices, build scalable SaaS features, improve performance and reliability, conduct architecture and code reviews, and mentor engineers. The role includes collaboration with product and architecture teams, participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation, and leadership across Policy Engine and agentic identity initiatives.

Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack microservices for SailPoint’s Policy Engine. Develop scalable distributed systems using Golang and Angular, write unit and integration tests, debug and profile complex services, participate in on-call support, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical roadmaps and architectural initiatives.

Build AI-powered features that automate data-driven slide decks and documents. Develop production LLM solutions using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and generative AI technologies; improve system performance and reliability; and collaborate with designers and engineers. Responsibilities span AI insights, content generation, integrations, optimization, and potentially LLM agents. The role requires advanced Python, machine learning and NLP expertise, and experience building and fine-tuning LLMs in production.

Contract software engineering role for a remote Europe-based engineer building scalable, resilient backend products with client teams. Responsibilities include backend development in Go, API and SaaS platform development, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes, testing with TDD, and performance optimization. The role also involves technical communication, collaborative problem-solving, and thoughtful use of AI tools.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Develop and support scalable Java and Spring Boot backend microservices powering omnichannel inventory availability, order promising, allocation, fulfilment, and post-purchase experiences. Build event-driven processing with Kafka, integrate OMS, WMS, ERP, commerce, and fulfilment platforms, and ensure services are secure, observable, reliable, and performant. Own features from design through production, write tested code, participate in reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and improve operational efficiency.

Designs, automates, and executes functional, integration, API, contract, regression, concurrency, and performance tests for inventory, order promising, sourcing, and fulfillment platforms. Investigates defects, validates fixes, maintains regression coverage, integrates quality tests into CI/CD pipelines, and supports release readiness. The role collaborates with product and engineering teams to validate distributed commerce systems, integrations, business rules, data consistency, scalability, resilience, and consumer-impacting workflows.

Build and own backend systems for card issuing, payments, reconciliation, double-entry accounting, webhooks, API versioning, and compliance workflows. Responsibilities include making architectural decisions, writing RFCs, delivering features from customer problem to production, monitoring and debugging live systems, improving engineering practices, and mentoring teammates. The role requires strong distributed systems and software fundamentals, functional programming or fintech expertise, and comfort working autonomously in a collaborative startup environment.

Develop and maintain business-critical full-stack applications, APIs, integrations, data flows, and mobile applications. Troubleshoot live services, write documented and tested code, improve development workflows and monitoring, support a junior developer, collaborate with external partners, and participate in deployment and critical-incident on-call duties.

Design and develop scalable, secure frontend web applications for connected embedded systems. Lead frontend architecture, collaborate with backend/embedded teams, implement device provisioning, telemetry visualization, and remote management UIs. Optimize performance, accessibility, and maintainability; mentor engineers, participate in reviews, and drive frontend best practices.

As Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will drive technical direction for the AeroParker platform, improve system performance, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality standards.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build backend services for the AeroParker platform, mentor engineers, and drive product direction while ensuring system reliability and security.

Design, develop, and lead delivery of scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Drive architecture, security, reliability, performance, testing, observability, and operational excellence. Lead strategic technical initiatives, resolve complex production issues, conduct reviews, mentor engineers, improve engineering standards, and promote AI-assisted development using tools such as GitHub Copilot. Partner with technical leaders to advance engineering capabilities and career development.

Set long-term technical strategy for backend identity systems, lead major distributed-system initiatives, ensure operational availability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. Build and launch highly available systems supporting international expansion, KYC verification, identity data management, decisioning, regulatory compliance, and global risk models.

Design and build distributed systems for a high-performance CI/CD execution platform. Responsibilities include orchestrating Supabase Branch lifecycle operations, provisioning ephemeral sandboxed environments on AWS, scheduling concurrent builds, optimizing pipelines through caching and artifact reuse, handling retries and failures, instrumenting observability, and developing configuration and infrastructure integrations. The role requires strong Go and TypeScript skills, cloud infrastructure experience, and a production operations mindset.

Build and ship AI-powered features for a digital pharmacy platform, integrating with EHR systems. Own features end-to-end on a Node/TypeScript stack deployed to GCP, leverage OpenAI/Langfuse/Vertex AI, and collaborate across a distributed team to deliver production-quality healthcare solutions.

Maintain and modernise DevOps platforms for maritime mission-critical sonar systems. Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines, migrate legacy environments, implement IaC and automation, improve platform performance, availability, monitoring, security, and develop in-house tooling to support software delivery.

Design and develop AI solutions for complex problems, integrating AI capabilities into systems and improving effectiveness through experimentation and evaluation.

Designs and delivers scalable AI-centric software for offensive security, including agentic vulnerability detection, automated penetration testing, workflow optimization, and threat intelligence. Owns features from ideation through deployment and monitoring, contributes to architecture and testing, and collaborates across teams. Requires Python or Go, AI technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud experience.

Design, build, support, and architect scalable, highly available distributed applications across web, mobile, trading, content, and internal platforms. The role contributes to solution design, cloud delivery, CI/CD, testing, security, risk management, technical innovation, knowledge transfer, and full lifecycle change delivery using Java, AWS, microservices, event-driven architecture, and containers.

Build and architect Base360.ai: design and launch booking, pricing, payments, operations, and AI-powered automation. Integrate platforms (Airbnb, Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI), scale systems internationally, and embed AI workflows to automate operations and optimize revenue.

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.

Develop and maintain enterprise, eCommerce, and multi-industry software using modern technology stacks. Champion software quality, technical vision, TDD/BDD, Agile Scrum, continuous integration, and delivery practices. Collaborate on problem solving, contribute to technical decisions, and mentor junior and mid-level developers. Participate in AND Bootcamp and support client delivery in Halifax while pursuing ongoing career development.

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.