Top Software Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Build and scale Base360.ai: design APIs, services, and cloud-native infrastructure; implement event-driven automations, AI-powered workflows, and integrations (Airbnb, Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI). Own projects end-to-end to automate operations, improve pricing and guest experiences, and enable global scaling.

Associate software developer who will train and join a specialized software team, contributing to design, development, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. The role involves collaboration across hardware, embedded software, integration, algorithms, and AI/ML teams; completing assigned work; and documenting technical work and learnings.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for People and Labour systems, modernising Azure microservices, integrations, APIs, data flows, and SaaS platforms. Guides event-driven design, resilience, observability, CI/CD, security, and AI adoption. Mentors senior engineering talent, aligns technology with HR and workforce stakeholders, and makes enterprise-level build-versus-buy and architectural decisions across business-critical platforms.

Owns the technical strategy and roadmap for HR and workforce-management technology. Leads Azure microservices modernization, system architecture, APIs, event-driven integrations, SaaS integration, resilience, observability, incident management, CI/CD, and AI adoption. Partners with HR, payroll, workforce management, security, data, and product stakeholders to align technology with business goals. Mentors senior engineering talent and drives technical excellence across complex, business-critical systems handling sensitive workforce data.

Build and maintain Clojure-based software to accelerate medical device regulatory approvals. Work cross-functionally to deliver high-quality safety assessments, ship features quickly, and support product growth. Remote-first, collaborative environment with occasional in-person weeks in London.

Build and operate Grafana Labs' bare-metal platform: provision storage, networking, and Kubernetes clusters; manage cluster networking, scheduling, autoscaling; maintain Crossplane compositions and Terraform modules; collaborate with application teams and participate in on-call rotation to ensure reliable, scalable platform operations.

Develop and lead scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud-based applications for commercial planning. Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, champion testing and DevSecOps, and drive observability and incident management. Partner with stakeholders and architecture teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering strategy, transformation programs, and innovative AI-enabled development practices.

Lead the development, testing, debugging, and technical design of scalable backend systems, integrations, and cloud applications. Establish engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, DevSecOps, observability, incident management, and operational excellence. Partner with architects, product managers, business stakeholders, and external partners to deliver commercial planning solutions. Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI-enabled development practices.

Lead technical initiatives while remaining hands-on across the stack. Build and ship end-to-end product features, prototype MVPs, develop frontend applications with TypeScript and Vue 3, and contribute to backend services using Node-based technologies, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and AWS. Improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience while collaborating with product, design, and engineering. Support hiring, performance management, and technical roadmaps in an independent hybrid environment.

Responsible for designing and implementing authentication features in Go and TypeScript, enhancing Auth architecture, and collaborating with teams to improve user experience.

Design and build scalable APIs, backend services, and large-scale data pipelines supporting financial automation and advertising data products. Develop and optimize Scala, Java, SQL, Spark, and Airflow solutions; improve data reliability, performance, and quality; monitor and troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Analytics, and engineering teams. Provide technical mentorship and contribute to AI-powered workflow automation initiatives.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for Supply Chain & Logistics systems, designing and operating scalable, reliable warehouse software. Mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, influence architecture and technology investment, and drive DevOps, observability and continuous improvement across platforms.

Lead technical design and delivery of supply chain and warehouse software at scale. Drive architecture, DevOps, observability, reliability and performance practices; mentor senior engineers; influence product and technology strategy; promote clean code and engineering excellence across teams; support recruitment and outreach.

Lead architecture, design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native microservices for retail trading. Provide technical leadership, ensure observability and resilience, drive CI/CD and operational excellence, and mentor engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient backend systems and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, ensure automated testing and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive operational excellence for cloud-native applications.

Lead technical direction and modernise international commerce platforms. Design scalable integrations for product, pricing, fulfilment, marketplace and partner flows. Champion engineering excellence, DevOps practices, reliability, observability and run-first ownership. Mentor engineers, align multi-team delivery and shape technology strategy to support international growth.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native backend systems and integrations. Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, champion testing and observability, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive operational excellence.

Design, maintain, and scale backend services and APIs connecting Phantom Cash to blockchains. Build reliable event-driven systems with REST APIs, distributed-system patterns, retries, idempotency, and data consistency. Collaborate across teams, document decisions, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards. The role also involves blockchain integrations, operational ownership, observability, and delivering dependable financial products in a remote crypto environment.

Freelance software developer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-performance applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, client-focused solutions on a remote, on-demand platform.

Join ROOST's Coop project to design, implement, test, document, and release trust-and-safety features. Work across backend APIs, GraphQL, databases, and UI to improve reviewer workflows, detection integrations, and reporting. Lead code quality, security practices, community contribution reviews, and stakeholder coordination while engaging with users and the open source community.

Join the ROOST Osprey team to design, implement, test, and maintain a high-performance, real-time safety rules engine. Work includes building data/event pipelines, scaling and containerizing services, integrating with Kafka and gRPC, reviewing community contributions, maintaining code quality and security, and engaging with users and open source contributors to prioritize and deliver features.

Build a decentralized, serverless P2P search stack using Node.js. Implement and evaluate distributed indexing, DHTs, CRDTs, and networking (NAT traversal, encryption, multiplexing). Optimize protocols and high-concurrency networking code and work with the Holepunch stack components like hyperdht and hyperswarm.

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable Java and Spring backend systems, developing secure REST APIs, and contributing to Vue/TypeScript applications. The role includes architectural leadership, technical decision-making, automated testing, CI/CD, cloud development, mentoring engineers, client collaboration, and delivery across multiple initiatives. The engineer will also evaluate emerging technologies, promote automation, and help adopt responsible AI practices to improve engineering effectiveness.

Lead and grow an SDET team building reliable, scalable cloud storage solutions. Provide technical leadership, design and review architectures, plan sprints, implement deterministic functional and non-functional test suites in CI/CD/CT pipelines, collaborate on product specs, hire and mentor engineers, and continuously improve processes and systems.

Lead technical teams to design, build, test, and maintain modern, scalable, secure software. Provide technical ownership for product architecture, estimation, planning and requirements. Coach and develop junior staff, drive CI/CD practices, troubleshoot live applications, and liaise with customers as the teams technical leader.