Senior Software Engineer

MoneyPlus; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MoneyPlus is modernising its engineering estate while continuing to deliver high-value product and platform work. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll own complex features end to end, write production code, surface risk early and help other engineers get stronger through thoughtful review and pairing.

You’ll work on legacy PHP and Laravel code in a live system, decomposing requirements, delivering low-risk increments, and collaborating with engineering leadership to drive non-functional

Qualifications

• Experience owning a complex feature from design to production.
• Proven ability to modernise legacy code in live systems incrementally.
• Experience with code reviews and pairing to improve others.
• Ability to reason about performance, observability, security and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Turn requirements into implementation plans from design to production.
• Contribute production code most days and break work into smaller increments.
• Improve legacy PHP and Laravel code incrementally in a live system.
• Use code review and pairing to improve code and engineers.
• Identify assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and non-functional concerns.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Legacy modernisation

Code review mentoring

NFR trade-offs

Job description

Own complex software delivery and modernise a live estate without defaulting to a rewrite.

MoneyPlus is modernising its engineering estate while continuing to deliver high-value product and platform work. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll own complex features end to end, write production code, surface risk early and help other engineers get stronger through thoughtful review and pairing.

What you’ll be doing

• Turn requirements into clear implementation plans and take complex work through design, build, test and production.
• Contribute production code most days and break large or ambiguous work into smaller, lower-risk increments.
• Improve legacy PHP and Laravel code incrementally in a live system, balancing delivery, risk and maintainability.
• Use code review and pairing to improve both the code and the capability of other engineers.
• Identify assumptions, dependencies, constraints and non-functional concerns during planning and bring considered trade-offs rather than late surprises.
• Step into urgent or ambiguous technical problems when needed, helping restore progress without becoming the default owner for all work.

What we’re looking for

• End-to-end feature ownership: Evidence of personally owning a complex feature from requirement through production, including decomposition, decisions, risks and outcome.
• Legacy modernisation: Evidence of improving legacy code in a live system through incremental, well-tested change rather than defaulting to rewrite.
• Review and mentoring: Evidence that code review, pairing or technical feedback improved another engineer’s work or approach.
• Non-functional judgement: Evidence of reasoning about performance, observability, security and resilience trade-offs; MoneyPlus-specific tooling can be learned.
• Transferable evidence is welcome. Regulated-sector experience is useful but not essential where you can demonstrate comparable ownership, modernisation judgement and non-functional engineering depth.

We provide First Aid for Finances, helping people move from crisis to control.

Our debt advice and solutions combine digital convenience with human care, supporting customers through some of the most challenging financial circumstances they may face.

• Real ownership of complex, high-value work across platform and product.
• Close technical partnership with engineering leadership.
• An engineering estate that is actively modernising rather than remaining static.

You do not need to meet every desirable criterion to apply. MoneyPlus is committed to an inclusive recruitment process, and reasonable adjustments are available at any stage.