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.