Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

📍 Manchester (Hybrid)

💷 Up to £75,000 plus package

A leading global technology and consulting organisation is hiring Senior Software Engineers to join a major Software & Platform Engineering team in Manchester, building modern cloud-native applications for large-scale private and public sector clients.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who can build production-quality software, contribute to technical decisions, and help shape the delivery of scalable applications across cloud, serverless, containerised and CI/CD-led environments.

You’ll be joining a large engineering community, working on products and platforms that can impact millions of users across sectors including public sector, blue-chip enterprise and high-growth scale-ups.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building traditional and serverless applications and services
• Designing and integrating applications with data stores, message buses and wider cloud architecture
• Deploying applications using containers, cloud services and CI/CD pipelines
• Supporting production observability, maintainability, security and performance
• Writing clean, secure, well-tested software
• Using unit, integration and contract testing
• Shaping and delivering small to medium-sized engineering workstreams
• Supporting technical decision-making and mentoring less experienced engineers

Tech you’ll use:

• Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, C# or modern frontend frameworks
• AWS preferred, with Azure or GCP also useful
• Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi or similar IaC tools
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI or ArgoCD
• Containers, serverless, CI/CD, testing and observability tooling

What you’ll bring:

• Strong commercial software engineering experience
• Hands-on coding ability in modern backend, frontend or full-stack environments
• Cloud-native development experience
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong debugging and complex problem-solving skills
• Understanding of secure coding, performance and production-quality delivery
• Good communication skills and the ability to work in client-facing agile teams

This would suit a Senior Software Engineer who wants to stay hands-on while working across modern cloud, platform and product engineering environments.

Interested? Drop me a message and I’d be happy to talk through the role.