End Date Wednesday 08 April 2026
Salary Range £72,702 – £109,053
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description SummarySoftware Engineer will lead technical development and delivery at Team and sometimes Lab level. They can be a Line Manager who will act as co‑lead with the Team PO for overall delivery. In these cases, they will be responsible for overall tech delivery, line management & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output. Others will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and deeper in focus.
Job Description
TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)
SALARY: £72,702 – £88,858 per annum
LOCATION: Manchester and Chester (1 day at each) or full time in Chester.
HOURS: Full‑time – 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy high‑quality software solutions that meet business needs
- Work closely with colleagues from different areas to capture and analyse requirements and determine technical feasibility
- Lead the development and implementation of complex software applications
- Maintain code quality and follow coding standards
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Lead with debugging and analysis of production incidents
- Mentor and coach junior engineers, encouraging a culture of learning and continuous improvement
Qualifications and Experience
- Extensive experience as a Senior Full Stack Engineer or in a comparable role
- Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals, with a track record of building scalable, resilient, and highly observable systems
- Expert proficiency in Java, with additional experience in JavaScript, Node.js or React considered a plus
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, or AWS), including cloud‑native architectures
- Proven experience building, deploying, and operating containerised applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Practical application of Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) and Test‑Driven Development (TDD) principles
- Solid understanding of software testing strategies, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience working in Agile environments, including Scrum, and using tools such as Jira
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Harness
- Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships
- Awareness of and interest in emerging technologies, including Generative AI, and Agentic / AI Capabilities
- Good understanding of networking concepts, ideally across both public cloud and on‑premise environments
- Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and help shape the broader engineering strategy
- Commitment to mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of learning, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Equal Opportunity
We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and diversity. We are disability confident and welcome applications from under‑represented groups.
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