Senior AI-First Cloud Software Engineer

Altus Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Flexible work model

Altus Intelligence Academy

Job summary

Altus Group in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain AWS-native software systems, combining cloud, data engineering, and AI capabilities to accelerate delivery and solve complex business challenges.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, production-grade code, and strong testing, with AI-assisted development to drive automation and observability across scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Proven experience designing and supporting complex production systems.
• Hands-on development with Python, Java, or Node.js.
• Experience building distributed systems and microservices in AWS.
• Strong data engineering, ETL, and large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure software applications.
• Own technical design and implementation from conception to production.
• Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability and reliability.
• Write, review, and improve production code; uphold best practices.
• Guide and review AI-generated code; promote testing and automation.
• Build AI agents and data pipelines within AWS cloud environments.

Skills

Python

Java

Node.js

Distributed systems

AWS

Data engineering

AI

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Spark/PySpark

Kafka

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

CloudWatch

Job description

Altus Group in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain AWS-native software systems, combining cloud, data engineering, and AI capabilities to accelerate delivery and solve complex business challenges.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, production-grade code, and strong testing, with AI-assisted development to drive automation and observability across scalable platforms.