Senior Software Engineer

Zuto; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zuto in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to take genuine ownership from design to production and beyond. You’ll shape scalable event-driven services, deploy new features and monitor live systems, using AI-assisted development to move fast and safely.

You’ll work across the stack with DevOps and product teams, solve complex problems and champion secure, observable software built to last, with a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strong senior‑level software engineering experience.
• Ownership from design through production.
• Understanding of scalable architecture and testing.
• Ability to make principled technical decisions.
• Experience or openness to AI‑assisted development.
• Able to balance scale with simplicity.
• Collaboration with cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, event‑driven services.
• Own solutions from initial design to production and monitoring.
• Use AI‑assisted tools to accelerate development.
• Work across the stack including areas near DevOps.
• Test ideas and build proofs of concept.
• Ensure security, observability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and wider teams.

Skills

Senior‑level software engineering

End-to-end ownership

Scalable architecture

Testing and quality practices

AI‑assisted development

Decision making with trade-offs

Collaborative mindset

Job description

Looking for an engineering role where you can do more than just pick up tickets and write code?

As a Senior Software Engineer at Zuto, you’ll have genuine ownership, from understanding the problem and making technical decisions through to deployment, monitoring and improving what you’ve built in production.

We’re transforming our architecture, building scalable, event‑driven services and embracing AI-assisted development to help our engineers move faster, experiment and solve bigger problems.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and building scalable, event‑driven services.
• Owning solutions from initial design through to production and monitoring.
• Using AI‑assisted development tools to work faster, experiment and solve problems.
• Working across the stack, including areas that may traditionally sit within DevOps or infrastructure.
• Testing ideas and building proofs of concept before adding unnecessary complexity.
• Building software that is secure, observable and built to last.
• Challenging existing technical patterns and helping shape better ways of working.
• Working with Engineering, Product and wider teams to solve complex business problems.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who combines strong technical skills with ownership, curiosity and good judgement.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Strong senior‑level software engineering experience.
• Experience owning complex problems from design through to production.
• A strong understanding of scalable architecture, testing and modern engineering principles.
• Confidence making technical decisions and understanding the trade‑offs behind them.
• Experience with, or a willingness to embrace, AI‑assisted software development.
• The ability to know when to build for scale, and when keeping things simple is the better solution.
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to challenge existing approaches.

Nice to Have

Experience with .NET, AWS, Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation, event‑driven architecture, queues, streams or domain‑driven design would be a bonus.

Our core backend is .NET, but we’re flexible on your technical background. How you solve problems, make decisions and learn matters just as much as the technologies you've previously used.

You’ll have the opportunity to help shape how we build technology at Zuto, alongside:

• Career progression with opportunities to move into senior roles
• Training & development to help you become brilliant at what you do
• Wellbeing support including GP Anytime, counselling and mental health support
• Zuto Life with regular socials, celebrations, free drinks & snacks, breakfast Thursdays, birthday off and more

Ready to Get Started?

If you want genuine engineering ownership, modern technology and the freedom to challenge how things are done, we’d love to hear from you.