Senior Software Engineer

City Football Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global football organization based in Manchester is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in software engineering, including hands-on skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript, and will demonstrate a strong understanding of DevOps practices. The role involves mentoring engineers and delivering enterprise applications, contributing significantly to the organization's technology landscape.

Benefits

26 days annual leave

Private healthcare

Discretionary annual bonus

Lifestyle discounts

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering and system integration.
• Strong hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Proven delivery of enterprise applications in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of cloud-native applications.
• Take ownership of technical documentation for maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with the Architecture team on designs.

Tools

Python

Go

TypeScript

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Closing Date of Applications – 28th February 2026

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Foundational Solutions team. This role is responsible for leading the technical delivery of enterprise‑grade applications and integrations that underpin City Football Group’s global technology landscape.

As a senior engineer, you will combine hands‑on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities – owning solution design, guiding delivery, mentoring engineers, and ensuring platforms are built to scale, integrate, and operate reliably across the organisation.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a Simply Health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of cloud‑native applications and data integrations aligned to enterprise architecture standards.
• Take full ownership of technical documentation, ensuring systems, workflows, and processes are clearly documented, maintainable, and scalable.
• Build and evolve integration patterns using APIs, data pipelines, and messaging solutions to enable interoperable platforms.
• Champion DevOps best practices, guiding CI/CD pipeline development with a focus on automation, quality, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with the Architecture team to interpret and implement architectural designs and standards.
• Line‑manage and mentor software engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching, and support for professional development.
• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into well‑defined, deliverable technical solutions.
• Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation standards, knowledge sharing, and architectural discussions.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform capability, operational resilience, and development efficiency.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Significant experience in software engineering and system integration, spanning front‑end and back‑end systems.
• Strong hands‑on experience with languages such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar.
• Proven delivery of enterprise applications in a cloud environment (preferably Azure, but AWS/GCP also relevant).
• Solid experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Strong understanding of integration technologies (REST APIs, messaging systems, orchestration services).
• Demonstrated ability to document systems clearly and thoroughly, building for maintainability and scale.
• Experience mentoring or line‑managing engineers.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Desirable

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Exposure to serverless or event‑driven architectures.
• Experience delivering within Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Interest in improving automation, tooling, and platform efficiency.

*We regularly review applications and reserve the right to close an advert early if we identify suitable candidates. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application as soon as possible.

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.