Salary: £50,000 – 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven experience defining architecture and engineering standards for complex systems.
- Deep understanding of high-throughput data environments, including caching, read scaling, partitioning, and storage selection.
- Experience implementing guardrails that teams follow, ideally enforced through automation.
- Strong background in AWS and modern backend engineering practices.
- Comfortable working in environments where AI contributes significantly to code and delivery.
- Experience with AI-assisted or agent-driven development environments.
- Background in real-time or high-demand platforms such as marketplaces.
- Understanding of testing and evaluation approaches for non-deterministic systems.
- Ability to design systems that remain flexible and easy to evolve over time.
Responsibilities
- Own and define the overall system architecture across AWS, including core services and serverless components for asynchronous workloads.
- Design high-volume, high-performance data-access layers to support real-time demand.
- Establish technical standards, patterns, and architectural boundaries, ensuring they are enforced through CI and automation.
- Lead solution design and ensure a strong definition-of-ready before development begins.
- Continuously evolve the architecture to support scaling without requiring re-platforming.
- Collaborate on the evaluation and governance of AI-generated code and agent-driven system interactions.
Technologies
- AI
- AWS
- Architect
- Backend
- Support
- NestJS
- Serverless
- TypeScript
- Cloud
We are recruiting for a Software Architect to take full ownership of the architecture for a high-scale, real-time platform being rebuilt on a modern AWS stack. This is a hybrid role based in Manchester, offering £70k DOE. Our delivery model is agentic-first, with AI agents contributing alongside a small, senior engineering team. This is a system-defining opportunity where you will shape technical direction, standards, and guardrails to enable fast, consistent delivery. The core technology environment includes TypeScript, NestJS, AWS, containerised services, serverless functions, managed databases, caching layers, and CDN capabilities, with a strong emphasis on high-throughput design, performance optimisation, and CI-enforced architectural consistency.
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