Software Engineer - Manchester

Role: Software Engineer - Manchester Level: 9 - Specialist

Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history, typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK. The above information relates to a specific client requirement.

As a member of our Software & Platform Engineering team, you will:

• Develop traditional and serverless applications and services in an agile and collaborative environment using source control that integrate with data storage services / message buses and other architectural elements.
• Deploy these applications using features such as containers to cloud leveraging CI/CD to support this process backed with good observability when running these in production.
• Ensure quality through the creation of documentation and use of unit / integration / contract testing with a consideration of security / performance requirements.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• A few years of industry experience in one of: Java, Typescript, Python, Go, C#, React, Angular, Vue, Svelte.
• Experience with Cloud Native technologies (AWS preferred, familiarity with Azure or GCP a plus).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD).
• Strong accessibility, security, performance and caching coding.

Set yourself apart:

• Experience with building datastore solutions on at least one No SQL (Elasticsearch).
• Proven ability to apply analytical and creative thought and translate into technical solutions.
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience shaping and delivering small to medium size pieces of work.

Benefits:

• Competitive basic salary.
• Up to 25 days vacation per year.
• Private medical insurance.
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
• Flexibility and mobility require onsite time with clients and partners to deliver first class services.