Senior Software Engineer

Zuto; Manchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Training & development

Wellbeing support including GP Anytime

Zuto Life with socials, free drinks &

Job summary

Zuto in Manchester City Centre is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will own problems from design through production, including deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement of what you build.

You will design and build scalable, event-driven services, embrace AI-assisted development, and work across the stack with engineering, product and wider teams to solve complex business challenges while keeping things simple and secure.

Qualifications

• Minimum senior-level software engineering experience.
• Experience owning complex problems from design through to production.
• Strong understanding of scalable architecture and testing.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development.
• Ability to balance simplicity and scale.
• Collaborative mindset ready to challenge approaches.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Senior-level engineering

Ownership of complex problems

Scalable architecture

AI-assisted development

Technical decision making

Collaborative mindset

DevOps/infrastructure awareness

Tools

.NET

AWS

Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation

Event-driven architecture

Job description

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

Manchester City Centre Join Zuto 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.

Why Zuto?

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.