Senior Software Engineer - End-to-End Modernisation & Mentoring

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

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