Senior Software Engineer

Talent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Hybrid work

Job summary

Talent is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a UK technology business building IoT monitoring and data platforms. You’ll work on a TypeScript/Node.js stack with a strong backend focus, turning real-time data into insights, alerts and automated workflows.

You’ll own features from development through production support in a greenfield environment and help shape engineering standards. You’ll join a development team of around 5–6 people and have the opportunity to influence architecture and

Qualifications

• Substantial commercial TypeScript experience across backend and frontend.
• Strong Node.js experience with production APIs.
• Experience with high-volume, real-time or event-driven systems.
• MongoDB schema design, indexing and aggregation proficiency.
• Redis experience for caching, queuing or rate limiting.

Responsibilities

• Build platform capabilities using TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js.
• Design and operate reliable HTTP APIs.
• Develop high-volume, time-series data ingestion, processing, storage and retention.
• Design MongoDB schemas, indexes and aggregation pipelines; improve query performance.
• Use Redis for caching, queuing or rate limiting.
• Contribute to architecture, documentation and engineering standards.
• Own features through development, testing, deployment and production support.
• Support the existing platform as the business transitions to the next-generation product.
• Diagnose production incidents and participate in on-call rota.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

React/Next.js

Real-time systems

MongoDB

Redis

IoT

Time-series data

Ownership

Tools

React/Next.js

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Senior Software Engineer — TypeScript / Node.js

Location: Swinton, Manchester — hybrid, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office

Permanent

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a UK technology business building IoT monitoring and data platforms used by major organisations across healthcare, food, energy and industrial environments.

You’ll join a development team of around 5–6 people, helping build and scale a recently launched data and automation platform. The work is predominantly greenfield, with significant scope to influence architecture, own technical decisions and shape engineering standards.

The role

You’ll work across a TypeScript stack, with a strong backend focus, developing systems that turn high volumes of real-time data into useful insights, alerts and automated workflows.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building platform capabilities using TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js.
• Designing and operating reliable HTTP APIs.
• Developing high-volume, time-series data ingestion, including processing, storage and retention.
• Designing MongoDB schemas, indexes and aggregation pipelines, and improving query performance.
• Using Redis for caching, queueing or rate limiting.
• Contributing to architecture, technical documentation and engineering standards.
• Owning features through development, testing, deployment and production support.
• Supporting the existing platform as the business transitions to its next-generation product.
• Diagnosing production incidents and participating in an on-call rota.

What we’re looking for

• Substantial commercial TypeScript experience across backend and frontend development.
• Strong Node.js experience, including designing and maintaining production APIs.
• Experience with high-volume, real-time or event-driven systems.
• Experience working with large datasets, ideally 100 million+ datapoints.
• Practical MongoDB experience covering schema design, indexing, aggregation and performance troubleshooting.
• Commercial experience with Redis.
• Evidence of owning production systems, including reliability, monitoring and incident resolution.
• Confidence making technical decisions and explaining trade-offs within a small team.

Experience with IoT, telemetry, time-series systems or LoRaWAN would be advantageous.

Technology

What’s on offer

• Salary up to £80,000, depending on experience.
• Bonus and equity.
• Predominantly greenfield development with meaningful technical ownership.