Lead Technical Architect (Hands‑On) - SC Cleared Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite) Contract Length: 6 months Rate: £750 per day IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Clearance: Active SC Clearance required// Must have worked in central government Overview We are seeking a Lead Technical Architect with a strong hands on development background to join a major public sector digital programme. This is a technical leadership role for someone who actively writes code and leads by example, rather than operating at an enterprise or purely strategic level. You will work across multiple agile delivery teams to design, build, and operate internal platforms and tooling used by software engineers. This role is ideal for a hands on Lead Technical Architect who still loves to code, has deep AWS serverless expertise, and enjoys building platforms that enable other engineers to succeed. This is not a strategic or enterprise architecture role practical delivery experience is essential. Key Responsibilities Write production quality code alongside engineers
Lead technical design and architectural decision making
Build and evolve internal platforms used by development teams
Design and deliver large scale, multi‑account serverless architectures on AWS
Support teams working with TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS CDK
Define and implement authentication and authorisation patterns using OAuth / OIDC
Communicate architectural vision clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders
Work across three delivery teams (approximately 8 people per team)
Attend occasional in person meetings (Manchester‑based, with infrequent UK travel) Essential Skills & Experience Hands‑On Technical Architecture (Critical) Strong hands on coding experience (not advisory only)
Proven background as a developer, ideally progressing Junior Developer → Developer → Architect
Expert‑level experience with: JavaScript / TypeScript
Node.js
AWS CDK
Actively comfortable contributing code in live delivery environments
Enterprise architects will not be considered - this role requires a technical, code focused architect AWS & Platform Architecture Strong AWS experience, particularly: Serverless architectures
Multi‑account environments
Cloud‑native design patterns
Experience building and operating platforms or products of meaningful scale
Background delivering internal developer platforms or tooling Authentication & Security Strong knowledge of web‑based authentication
Hands‑on experience with OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) Communication & Leadership Able to explain complex technical concepts to a wide range of stakeholders
Comfortable influencing engineering direction across multiple teams
Experience working in large, complex delivery environments

About the job
Job summary
Senior Dynamics Developer
The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers systems need to be developed, improved, and maintained. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved.
You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department.
As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office .
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Job description
Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
Technical

• Be responsible for the design, coding, configuration, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure
• Configure and customise both model model-driven and canvas apps
• Develop Power Automate Flows via connectors to the Dataverse and other data sources
• Develop PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions
• Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage
• Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork
• Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
• Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to
• Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
• Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos
• Responsible for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes
• Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF)

Behavioural

• Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results)
• Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team)
• Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork
• Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services
• Provide project / delivery management support when required
• Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team
• Applies “progress over perfection” principle
• Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers
• Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience
• Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen

Personal and Team Development

• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values
• Guides more junior members in their personal development
• Coaches and mentors’ colleagues
• Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends
• Shares knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team and the business stakeholders

Person specification
Essential Experience

• Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects
• Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile methodologies
• Advocate of DevOps principles
• Experience working in a Microsoft Azure Cloud first team
• Experience with Azure DevOps

Essential Technical

• Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/or PowerApps platform
• Has a deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services
• Technical aptitude
• Proficiency in one or more of these languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript
• Experience writing and implementing Unit Testing

How to Apply
Click the ‘Apply now’ button and complete the application form by providing the following:
Your CV

• Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc.
• Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our ‘Things you need to know’ section below.
Please visit our Civil Service Careers page - IPO - Recruitment Support , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk) If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read
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Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Developing Self and Others
• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together

Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• At interview you will be assessed on technical criteria

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £47,766, Intellectual Property Office contributes £13,837 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
• Hybrid working with no core hours
• Substantial support for career progression
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave

For more information about what’s on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert.
Please note that benefits may be subject to change.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Additional details on security and vetting
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance .
For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.
Further information on the vetting process can be found at National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
If you have questions regarding this or are unsure if you meet the eligibility criteria, please contact
Stage 1 - Sift
An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements:
Experience
Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role
Stage 2 - Interviews
If invited to interview Behaviours and Technical based questioning will be used.
Please note candidates that proceed to the interview stage will be required to deliver a presentation against the Technical Success Profile. Further details will be provided in the invite to interview information.
Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation.
Interviews for this role will be carried out virtually via Microsoft Teams (video)
This recruitment campaign will keep a reserve list for 12 months. If you meet the requirements for this role but aren’t offered after passing the interview, you’ll be placed on the reserve list. If a suitable position opens up during this time, we will reach out to individuals in merit order.
Applicants to note: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted.
There may be important information contained within the job role profile candidates may also wish to refer to. We recommend candidates download and save a copy of the role profile for reference.
This post is being advertised to Internal , across Government and external candidates at the same time.
Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be accepted or considered. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
We do not routinely reimburse travel expenses for candidates, however if participating in the selection process would cause you undue financial hardship or if it restricts your ability to participate, please contact the recruitment team for more information.
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Please be aware that only one application per candidate is permitted for each recruitment campaign. Multiple applications, including those made using different accounts, may result in your application being withdrawn or rejected at any stage of the process.
For more information on the IPO’s terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert.
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Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) .
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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The Touch team is developing a next generation investment platform. We want to use technology to improve the way consumers access financial advice and manage their investments.

The majority of existing platforms are still reliant on software and processes that arent capable of supporting todays technology, so we started from scratch, developing a modern platform that is as efficient as possible. We’re building a mobile first investment app that lets advisers manage their clients’ investments entirely through their Smartphone.

The day to day responsibilities

• Engage in the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering with stakeholders, working as a team to build and test features, managing deployment and supporting the service in production.
• Work as part of a distributed team made up of self-motivated and collaborative individuals.
• Iteratively make improvements to a new product while aligning to our mutually agreed design and architectural principles.
• Always looking for ways we can improve our product, processes and practices. We dont like friction and waste.
• Automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment. We are huge proponents of automation.
• Working outside of your specialism when needed. While all our team members have a specialism, we dont let that restrain us. Our engineers jump in to help get things done even in technologies out of their core competency.

Your skills and attributes

• Excellent programming and problem solving skills
• Understanding of relevant software design patterns and paradigms, such as OOAD, DDD, MVC, microservices, containers/orchestration or event-driven architecture
• Experience in creating performant, scalable, secure and well tested code.
• You take ownership of tasks and problems, clearing roadblocks and pulling in other people to help when needed.
• Experience working with Investment or Pensions platforms would be an advantage

Our tools and technologies

The below are all things that we are either currently using or have found to be a useful foundation when joining our team. Prior knowledge of them is not essential but would be beneficial to the role:

• Flutter (including Dart) - we can provide training to experienced native iOS or Android engineers who havent used Flutter before.
• Firebase, Riverpod with Hooks, Provider, Deeplinking
• gRPC/proto
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

Other technologies we use include:

• TypeScript and Vue
• Go

About AJ Bell

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK’s 'Best 100 Companies to Work For forsix consecutive yearsand in 2024 and 2025 named a Great Place to Work.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

What we offer

• Competitive starting salary
• Starting holiday entitlement of 25, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan provided by Simply Health
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

Hybrid working

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That’s why we offer a hybrid working model, where youll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office, including one day a month in our Bristol office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we’d love to speak to you.

Portfolio are proud to be representing our clients who are a Software provider based in the heart of Manchester, providing people solutions to over 100,000 clients worldwide and they’re looking for a Software Engineer In Test

The role is paying up to £55,000 and is 5 days a week in the office.

Essential:

• Experience with API testing tools (Postman)
• Understanding of CICD (Jenkins, AWS, Azure)
• Displays experience of various testing techniques (Exploratory, Smoke, Regression)
• Understanding of Database management tools and how to query data required (SQL)
• Displays clear and precise communication skills

Desirable:

• Knowledge of automation tools (Selenium Web Driver, VS Code)
• Knowledge of automation framework (cypress, playwright, typescript)
• Knowledge of testing google analytics
• Knowledge of Mobile testing
• Browserstack

If you would be interested please apply below!

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Lead Engineer Enterprise SaaS Platform £80,000 £85,000 + 20% Bonus + Benefits
Hybrid Manchester (2 days per week)
The Opportunity We are partnered with a high-growth enterprise SaaS organisation delivering large-scale, cloud-native platforms used across a complex, multi-product ecosystem.
This is a hands-on Lead Engineer role sitting at the heart of a modern product engineering function. You will take ownership of critical platform services, lead a high-performing team, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of systems that operate at real scale.
Youll be working in an environment that prioritises:

• Modern engineering standards
• Cloud-native architecture
• Event-driven systems
• Continuous delivery at pace

This is not a legacy environment. This is a business actively investing in engineering as a competitive advantage.
The Role As a Lead Engineer, you will combine technical leadership with hands-on delivery, guiding a team of engineers while remaining close to the code and architecture.
You will:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting the standard for engineering quality
• Design and build scalable, resilient, cloud-native systems
• Collaborate with Product and Architecture to define technical direction
• Drive best practices across CI/CD, testing, and modern software engineering
• Take ownership of system performance, reliability, and scalability
• Contribute to architectural decisions across a distributed, service-based platform

Technology Environment Youll be working within a modern Microsoft-focused stack, including:

• C# / .NET (latest versions)
• Azure (cloud-native services, managed infrastructure)
• SQL & data-driven architectures
• Event-driven and distributed systems
• RESTful APIs and microservices
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• React / TypeScript (desirable, not essential)

What Were Looking For

• Proven experience in a Lead Engineer / Senior Engineer stepping into leadership role
• Strong background in .NET and cloud-based architecture (Azure preferred)
• Experience building scalable, distributed systems in a SaaS environment
• Comfortable leading teams while remaining hands-on technically
• Strong understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, DevOps)
• Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate across product and architecture

Why This Role

• High-impact position within a scaling SaaS platform
• Opportunity to shape engineering standards and technical direction
• Work on complex, real-world systems at scale
• Strong engineering culture with genuine investment in technology
• Clear progression into Principal / Head of Engineering pathways

Package

• £75,000 £85,000 base salary
• 20% annual bonus
• Competitive benefits package
• Hybrid working Manchester (2 days per week)

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Manchester, Hybrid | £55,000 - £65,000

Overview

We’re supporting a growing, tech company in their search for a Senior Software Engineer to help drive the evolution of their platform. This role suits someone who enjoys building robust applications, influencing technical direction, and working closely with cross-functional teams.

The Role

You’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving a modern web platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and built to a high standard. Working alongside product and design, you’ll contribute to technical decisions and help deliver new features in a structured, efficient way.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain high standards across the codebase, focusing on performance, security, and maintainability
• Collaborate with designers and product teams to deliver technically sound solutions
• Contribute to architectural improvements and technical direction
• Support delivery of complex features from planning through to deployment
• Ensure systems are well-tested, monitored, and reliable in production
• Take ownership of your work and support continuous improvement
• Mentor and support other engineers within the team
• Actively contribute within an Agile/SCRUM environment

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong TypeScript & Node.js skills
• Strong experience with React
• Proven experience in API development
• AWS Experience
• Experience building single-page applications (SPA) and applying progressive enhancement principles
• Strong CSS knowledge
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices
• Experience working with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with test-driven development (TDD)
• Experience working within a cross-functional product development team

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• New tech provided

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Manchester, Hybrid | £55,000 - £65,000

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The right candidate will have built and operated a product of reasonable scale. You should bring strong hands-on experience with JavaScript (TypeScript), Node.js, and AWS CDK. You'll need deep AWS experience, particularly in developing large multi-account serverless architectures using cloud-native features. Knowledge of web-based authentication systems, specifically OAuth and OIDC, is important. Please do not apply without this experience. This is a hands-on technical architecture role, not a traditional enterprise architecture position. You must have a strong development background - someone who has progressed from developer through to architect and is still comfortable writing code daily. You will be expected to write code alongside engineers, not just produce diagrams and documentation. If your experience is primarily in enterprise architecture, this role is not the right fit. What you'll do You'll lead the architectural direction for platform services used by other development teams, designing and building internal tooling and platforms whose primary users are developers. Day to day, you'll work across three engineering teams, providing technical leadership while remaining close to the code. You'll design technical services and plan system integrations, selecting platforms and technologies to meet project requirements. You'll undertake structured analysis of technical issues and translate that analysis into practical, implementable designs. You'll identify deeper systemic issues, look for opportunities to reuse components, and contribute to the development of architectural and engineering practices, principles, and standards. You'll communicate your vision and architectural decisions clearly to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, both technical and non-technical. Strong communication skills are essential. You'll need to articulate architectural decisions and design patterns to audiences ranging from senior stakeholders to junior developers. Job titles we'd expect to see in your background Technical Architect, Lead Developer, Principal Technologist, Senior/Lead Engineer, or similar roles where you combined architectural thinking with active development.

Are you a Senior / Lead .NET Software Developer who is keen to work for a Certified B Corp? Are you keen to use your Full Stack Development skills to create bespoke lending solutions that help UK homeowners build long-term financial wellbeing? We re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help shape the future of our technology platform. You will lead and inspire a talented team while remaining hands-on with architecture and delivery. You ll play a pivotal role in designing, building and evolving resilient, high-performance systems using the Microsoft stack, working across C#, .NET, SQL, Azure and modern front-end technologies such as React, JavaScript and TypeScript. If you have a passion for emerging technologies, DevOps, cloud platforms, this is the role for you Role: Lead Software Developer, Senior .NET Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer, Senior Full Stack Developer, Full Stack Developer, Senior Developer Location: Manchester Hybrid working is in place Salary: up to £70k base salary + awesome benefits Benefits include 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, your birthday off every year, a healthcare cash plan, pension contributions matched up to 5%, life assurance, long service awards and a cycle to work scheme. Sound like something you are keen to be a part of? CLICK APPLY and send through a copy of a CV.

Lead Engineer Enterprise SaaS Platform £80,000 £85,000 + 20% Bonus + Benefits

Hybrid Manchester (2 days per week)

The Opportunity We are partnered with a high-growth enterprise SaaS organisation delivering large-scale, cloud-native platforms used across a complex, multi-product ecosystem.

This is a hands-on Lead Engineer role sitting at the heart of a modern product engineering function. You will take ownership of critical platform services, lead a high-performing team, and play a key role in shaping the technical direction of systems that operate at real scale.

Youll be working in an environment that prioritises:

Modern engineering standards

Cloud-native architecture

Event-driven systems

Continuous delivery at pace

This is not a legacy environment. This is a business actively investing in engineering as a competitive advantage.

The Role As a Lead Engineer, you will combine technical leadership with hands-on delivery , guiding a team of engineers while remaining close to the code and architecture.

You will:

Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting the standard for engineering quality

Design and build scalable, resilient, cloud-native systems

Collaborate with Product and Architecture to define technical direction

Drive best practices across CI/CD, testing, and modern software engineering

Take ownership of system performance, reliability, and scalability

Contribute to architectural decisions across a distributed, service-based platform

Technology Environment Youll be working within a modern Microsoft-focused stack , including:

C# / .NET (latest versions)

Azure (cloud-native services, managed infrastructure)

SQL & data-driven architectures

Event-driven and distributed systems

RESTful APIs and microservices

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)

React / TypeScript (desirable, not essential)

What Were Looking For Proven experience in a Lead Engineer / Senior Engineer stepping into leadership role

Strong background in .NET and cloud-based architecture (Azure preferred)

Experience building scalable, distributed systems in a SaaS environment

Comfortable leading teams while remaining hands-on technically

Strong understanding of modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, DevOps)

Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate across product and architecture

Why This Role High-impact position within a scaling SaaS platform

Opportunity to shape engineering standards and technical direction

Work on complex, real-world systems at scale

Strong engineering culture with genuine investment in technology

Clear progression into Principal / Head of Engineering pathways

Package £75,000 £85,000 base salary

20% annual bonus

Competitive benefits package

Hybrid working Manchester (2 days per week)

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Great opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to work for a retail company near Manchester at the beginning of a digital transformation.

You’d report to the Head of Engineering and would work as part of a team of Principal Software Engineers responsible for collaborating with Architects and Product Owners to lead the re-architecture of existing platforms to a cloud-native, event-driven, microservices architecture.

Whilst there is no line management, you’d have full technical overview for your product domain including technology vision, strategy, workload and quality governance of the squads within it.

Skills:

• TypeScript, Node, React
• AWS, Lambdas
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Observability
• CI/CD

The money is good too - up to £90k plus benefits including 10% annual bonus, pension, private healthcare and flexible working.

If you’re interested in this opportunity and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I will contact you ASAP.

SBA are currently supporting our Central Government client who are seeking a Lead Technical Architect on an initial 6 month contract.

Skills needed for this role

• Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical. You can speak on behalf of technical teams and facilitate relationships with indirect stakeholders. (Relevant skill level: working)
• Governance. You understand how governance works and what governance is required. You can take responsibility for the assurance of parts of a service and know what risks need to be managed. (Relevant skill level: working)
• Making and guiding decisions. You can make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can resolve technical disputes between peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions. (Relevant skill level: working)
• Strategy. You can apply strategy, using patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can challenge them and provide guidance. (Relevant skill level: working)
• Turning business problems into technical design. You can design systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business, and technical complexity and meaningful impact. You can work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns. (Relevant skill level: working)

The ideal candidate should have

• Experience working with written code e.g., Javascript (typescript), Node, CDK
• AWS experience
• Strong communication skills when it comes to explaining their vision and architectural design to a wide array of internal and external stakeholders

NB: Active SC/recently lapsed SC would be advantageous.

To apply, please submit latest CV.

We are hiring a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong test-driven development (TDD) background to help build the next generation of a mission-critical cybersecurity and communications platform used globally.

This is a hands-on role focused on designing and delivering partner API integrations across a complex security ecosystem - including endpoint protection, network security, user awareness tooling, and monitoring systems.

You ll work as part of a collaborative product team alongside full stack and front-end developers, supported by QA and DevOps, reporting into engineering leadership.

Why This Role Matters

The next-generation platform will provide customers with a unified view of security across distributed environments. As integrations expand, maintaining a high bar for quality, reliability, and test coverage is critical.

This role will also play a key part in strengthening TDD practices across the team - leading through code and delivery.

What You ll Do

• Design and build API integrations across a cybersecurity-focused product stack
• Deliver clean, maintainable full stack solutions using .NET and modern JavaScript frameworks
• Lead by example in test-driven development practices
• Integrate third-party systems using REST APIs, OAuth2, webhooks, and resilient patterns
• Contribute to a scalable, observable integration layer
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps to deliver high-quality releases
• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of your daily workflow

Requirements (Must Have)

• Experience with C# / .NET Core
• Strong experience with ASP.NET Core / Web API
• Modern JavaScript / TypeScript experience
• Experience with a component-based SPA framework (e.g. Vue, React, or Angular)
• Proven, hands-on test-driven development experience
• Strong experience integrating third-party APIs (REST, OAuth2, webhooks, retries, rate limiting)
• Solid SQL skills (e.g. MariaDB or MySQL)
• Experience with Git workflows (branching, pull requests, code reviews)
• Regular user of AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot or similar)
• Strong ownership mindset and commitment to quality

Nice to Have

• Commercial experience integrating AI APIs (e.g. Claude, Bedrock, OpenAI or similar)
• Experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3)
• Microservices or distributed systems experience
• Familiarity with iterative product development methodologies
• Awareness of secure-by-design principles (e.g. ISO 27001)
• Background in SaaS or cybersecurity environments

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Excellent career development / Training budget
• Flexible working

If you take pride in writing well-tested, production-grade code and want to contribute to building critical cybersecurity software used at global scale, we d love to hear from you.

Full Stack Engineer (TDD / C# / JavaScript)

Great opportunity for a Dev Team Lead to join a SaaS scale-up in Manchester.

Since their inception in 2015 this company has grown from start-up to scale-up, they now employ almost 200 people and have over 50,000 clients using their software around the world.

The technology department is made up of product teams responsible for developing a suite of cloud based, web and mobile apps. Each team is cross-functional and works in a truly agile way, delivering small increments of value to their customers very frequently.

This role sits in the team responsible for developing their flagship software platform and as a Dev Team Lead, you’ll be given the opportunity to lead a team that build, test and ship super-fast in an environment where people value engineering best practice, pairing and continuous improvement.

Skills:

• C#, .NET, REST APIs
• TypeScript, React
• Azure Cloud - Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, CosmosDB
• TDD, CI/CD, SOLID

The money is good too – up to £80k plus benefits for the right person.

If you’re interested in this opportunity and would like to know more, please apply through this advert and I will contact you ASAP.

Stockport| Hybrid 2-3 Days | £60-80,000 This is a product engineering role in a company quietly becoming the operating system for a very traditional, very global industry. Their software runs live, real-world operations. If it breaks, people notice. If it works well, thousands of users rely on it daily. They’ve standardised on a modern TypeScript + AWS stack and are scaling properly — not reactively. This isn’t a consultancy. It isn’t internal IT. It’s a product business with global customers and genuine engineering ownership. We have multiple opportunities as we scale from Junior to Senior Engineer The Stack \* TypeScript (front + backend) \* React \* Node / NestJS \* AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, Cognito) \* MongoDB Atlas \* Infrastructure as Code (CDK) \* CI/CD, testing and observability as standard They deploy properly. They monitor properly. They review properly. What Makes It Interesting \* Software that interacts with physical, real-world operations \* A business modernising an industry that historically hasn’t moved fast \* Cross-functional teams that own features end-to-end \* Engineers involved in design decisions, not just delivery \* High standards without corporate red tape You’ll be building systems that need to be reliable, observable and scalable. Why It’s Worth a Look \* Modern stack with intent behind it \* Real product ownership \* Equity included \* Flexible hybrid working \* A business with strong momentum and global growth If you want a safer corporate role, this isn’t it. If you want to build meaningful software properly — let’s talk

On behalf of our growing client based in Manchester, we are recruiting a talented React Native Developer. As React Native Developer, you will work on a greenfield project, where you will shape and define the future of our clients mobile apps while sharing your experience with the rest of the team.

The React Native Developer will be responsible for:

• Take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of delivery from idea to operation
• Understand and maintain software quality for features built (Test Driven Development, Pairing, Peer Review)
• Understand and maintain good engineering practices
• Support the product owner and technical lead in the provisioning of estimates that are at an appropriate level of fidelity for the phase in the development lifecycle
• Make realistic commitments that you are confident of meeting and strive to do so
• Support the BA in the elaboration of requirements
• Support the QA in identifying, describing, and resolving defects
• Exhibit cross-functional behaviour and support other competencies within your product team

The React Native Developer will have the following:

• You will be confident in delivering secure, high-quality React Native applications commercially.
• Proficient with ES5 & ES6 & Typescript
• Expert with different layouts and the ability to develop complex UI with design standards.
• Working knowledge of consuming third-party APIs and parsing JSON.
• You will have experience in delivering software in a test-driven style (TDD) and be familiar with appropriate automation testing processes.
• You will understand the benefits of simple design and are familiar with software design patterns and be pragmatic in their implementation.
• You will be experienced with agile ways of working and lean-agile principles
• You will be experienced in sharing your knowledge with other members of the development team.

Benefits

• Flexible working, with occasional site visits for collaborative and social activities
• Generous holiday allowance with an extra day off on your birthday
• Pension and annual salary review

How to Apply if you re interested in this Job:

If this sounds like your perfect role, click Apply without delay!

React Native Developer

JavaScript Developer with strong commercial Next.js experience is sought by a market leading PaaS organisation based in central Manchester.

With recent investment this JavaScript Developer will play a crucial role in new product & feature development offering high level of autonomy to help shape the future of this market leading solution.
As the team scales and adds additional functionality this mid-level JavaScript Developer will work closely with the CTO to upskill and progress with scope to learn and work with AI, Data and cloud technology.

This role would suit a Developer with a couple of years commercial experience,. Ideally gained in a product focussed engineering team who is keen to work full stack.

This company support real commitment to a healthy work life balance with hybrid, flexible working alongside a collaborative, autonomous team culture.

This JavaScript Developer based near Manchester should have most of the following key skills

• Strong commercial next.js experience
• Willingness to work full stack
• Solid JavaScript/ typescript/ node exposure
• A strong communicator who is happy to get involved with stakeholder
• Experience building and supporting web applications in AWS would be a real plus
• Any hobbyist or academic Python exposure would be useful
• Experience working in a Product or PaaS environment

In return this JavaScript Developer based near Manchester will receive:

• Starting salary of up to £60,000
• Bonus scheme
• Short working week with flexible working hours
• Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office)
• Great progression opportunities
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare
• Regular salary reviews
• A well-structured training scheme with external certifications

So if you are a JavaScript Developer who is looking to get involved in shaping the technical output of a successful, scaling organisation please apply now to be considered and for further info.

Manchester
JavaScript, Node, AWS, serverless architecture JavaScript, CI, CD, Test driven development, Typescript, next.js