Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Manchester City Centre (Hybrid – 2 days onsite)
Up to £70,000 + 10% Bonus
Build Modern Cloud-Native Platforms at Enterprise Scale
We’re partnered with a major enterprise SaaS organisation currently undergoing significant platform modernisation and engineering transformation across multiple business-critical products used daily across the UK and Europe.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing Product Engineering environment focused on building scalable, cloud-native applications that process high-volume transactional activity in real time.
The engineering challenges here are genuine:
- distributed systems
- event-driven architecture
- scalability
- cloud-native development
- observability
- modern CI/CD
- performance engineering
This is not a slow-moving corporate environment where engineers disappear into process and meetings. The business is investing heavily into modern software engineering practices, platform capability and technical excellence — giving engineers genuine influence over how software is designed, built and evolved.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and delivering modern software solutions across a large-scale enterprise platform ecosystem.
You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering and Architecture teams to develop highly scalable services and customer-facing applications using a modern Microsoft and cloud-native technology stack.
The environment is collaborative, fast-moving and engineering-led, with a strong emphasis on quality, autonomy and continuous improvement.
You’ll be trusted to:
- build scalable cloud-native applications
- contribute to architectural and technical decisions
- improve engineering standards and practices
- mentor and support other engineers
- solve complex performance and scalability challenges
- contribute to modern DevOps and CI/CD practices
- work closely with stakeholders across Product and Technology
Technology Environment
The engineering stack includes modern technologies such as:
- C# / .NET 8
- AWS & Azure cloud services
- React & TypeScript
- REST APIs & Microservices
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
- Docker & Containerisation
- SQL & NoSQL databases
- GitHub Actions / Azure Pipelines
- SNS / SQS / EventBridge messaging
- CI/CD & automated testing
What They’re Looking For
You’ll likely come from a modern SaaS, product-led or enterprise engineering background and be comfortable operating within high-performing Agile teams.
Strong experience across the following is highly desirable:
- Modern C# / .NET engineering
- Cloud-native application development
- React or modern frontend frameworks
- Distributed systems & API design
- CI/CD and engineering automation
- Performance optimisation & scalability
- Mentoring and technical leadership
- Collaborative product engineering environments
Most importantly, they want engineers who care about quality, ownership and building software properly.
Why This Role Stands Out
- Large-scale enterprise SaaS environment
- Modern cloud-first engineering culture
- Genuine technical complexity at scale
- Strong investment into platform modernisation
- Collaborative, engineering-led culture
- High visibility and technical influence
- Hybrid working with a central Manchester office
- Long-term progression and growth opportunities
This is the kind of environment where strong engineers thrive - modern technology, meaningful engineering challenges and the opportunity to help shape the future direction of large-scale software platforms.