Senior Software Engineer (L6)

J Street Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-working - up to 4 days WFH

Holiday incentive £1000 after year

£500 yearly L&D budget

Birthday off

Job summary

Street Group, a fast-growing PropTech company in the UK, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (L6) to set technical direction and lead architectural decisions across product areas. The role emphasizes AI tooling, scalable backend systems and cross-team leadership in a hybrid Manchester environment.

You will own complex platform changes, drive security and reliability improvements, mentor engineers, and help shape how engineering works at Street Group.

Qualifications

• Strong PHP/Laravel experience with architecture across multiple teams.
• Hands-on with modern JS frameworks (Vue/React).
• Experience in AWS-based production systems and cost/reliability considerations.
• Track record building AI-enabled tooling and governance.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for product areas and define system boundaries.
• Lead cross-team architectural decisions and governance for major changes.
• Address scaling bottlenecks, security, and reliability proactively using data.
• Mentor engineers, raise standards, and improve tooling and processes.
• Drive AI infrastructure and governance for build-vs-buy debates.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Leadership

Architecture

JavaScript

Tools

Vue 3

React

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Manchester (Hybrid, up to 4 days WFH) | £70k-£90k

Street Group is one of the fastest-growing PropTech companies in the UK. We want to be the leading creator of delightful experiences for everybody involved in buying, selling, renting and letting property, regardless of their involvement, to improve the industry for everybody by elevating UK Estate Agencies through world-class technology.

Our products, Street.co.uk and Spectre form a powerful duo, working harmoniously together to transform an agent's job. From securing more leads and winning new instructions to streamlining business operations and growing market share, our products are supercharging 1,000s of agencies across the UK.

How we work in 2026

Engineering at Street Group has changed. Most of us don't write code by hand day-to-day anymore - agents do; we direct. The bar has moved with it; planning and judgement matter more than typing speed: engineers run several workstreams in parallel, directing agent sessions while their own attention goes on design calls and the more complex problems.

Being genuinely tuned into AI tooling is core to the role here, not a side skill - if you'd rather work without these tools, that's fair - but we're probably not the place for you.

At Principal level, you'll set technical direction for a whole part of the product, sit at the table in discovery and design, and help shape how engineering at Street Group works through our technical leadership network. If you want strategic, product-level impact without leaving the IC track, we think you'd fit right in!

Here's what you can expect to be working on as a Software Engineer (L6) at Street Group

• Setting technical direction across a portion of the product: deciding which systems get built, how they fit together and what gets retired, while still contributing and steering the engineers around you.

• Finding the problems nobody has named yet, like "something about how we do X won't survive the next year of growth", then framing them, making them tractable and taking them through to a solution across teams.

• Leading technical decision making at product-area level: the shared services, platform pieces and seams between teams, and you'll own reviews for the big changes.

• Getting ahead of scaling bottlenecks, operational toil and security exposure before teams feel them, using data rather than gut feel - your aim is for whole teams to ship faster quarter on quarter.

• Driving the agents, shared plugins and AI infrastructure in CI and review that the whole function relies on. You'll own their governance (failure modes, drift, safe-use standards) and make build-vs-buy recommendations that inform our AI investment.

• Leading on complex platform changes, major framework upgrades, security architecture, estate-level cost and reliability work - and getting multiple teams aligned on outcomes everyone can live with.

• Acting as a co-owner of product outcomes: bringing proposals product adopts, often opportunities engineering spotted first, and explaining complex technical trade-offs in commercial terms leadership can act on.

• Lifting engineers beyond your own team through mentoring, standards and tooling.

A bit about you

• You have deep commercial experience with PHP and Laravel (or a similar MVC framework), and you've led architecture and design across multiple teams or systems, not just within one.

• You have experience working with Vue 3, React, Angular or a similar modern JS framework.

• You have strong production experience with AWS. ECS, RDS, SQS, Lambda and EventBridge are advantageous, and you're comfortable shaping cost, reliability and security at estate level.

• You work AI-natively by default, and you've gone beyond your own workflow to build AI tooling, agents or infrastructure that other engineers rely on. You also know how to put guardrails around it.

• You turn ambiguity into direction: you're used to open-ended problems with no brief, and the solutions you ship to hard problems are the boring, maintainable kind.

• You get up to speed fast. Drop you into an unfamiliar team or codebase and you're adding value in your first week.

• You think in products and systems: you can see how a technical decision lands in the business, and how a change to a team or process will affect a system boundary.

• You're a trusted influencer and communicator. You can align teams with competing priorities, tell leadership early when something affects customers, money or reputation, and make the engineers around you better.

Why join Street Group

• Hybrid-working - you can work from home up to 4 days per week
• Guilt-Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we'll even cover the tax!)
• Joining a culture that supports your development and encourages growth
• £500 yearly L&D budget for your career development
• Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away
• 'Give something back' - 2 paid days volunteering on us
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay
• Mental health & well-being support via Health Assured
• Regular well-being initiatives
• Flexible working hours
• Public transport season ticket loans
• Paid menopause leave
• Holiday buying scheme
• Joining a new team in an exciting business with huge ambition
• Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry! It's a huge goal, but it motivates us to do better every single day
• A chance to work on cutting-edge technology
• Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!
• Fully stocked fridge and beers (or an alternative) on us every Friday afternoon
• Company and team off-sites, events and happy hours
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Feel good about sustainability - we're a climate-positive company!

Research has shown that women tend to rule themselves out of applying for jobs unless they meet 100% of the requirements. If you fall into that category and were about to rule yourself out based on the above criteria; please consider applying anyway. We'd love to see your application!

Salary

£75,000 - £90,000 dependent on experience. However, sometimes the perfect person is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. In these situations, planned ranges go out the window. If you think that might be the case, please apply and just let us know.

We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be able to perform the work specified.

Interview Process

4 stages (incl. tech task) = An introductory call with one of our Talent team > Take-home tech task > Technical video interview > Final in-person interview.

We want to make our interviews as inclusive as possible, so if you need any adjustments made, or if there's anything you think we should be aware of during the interview process, please do let us know.

A note on using AI in your job application

As a fast-moving and rapidly evolving tech company, we embrace the advantages of AI and encourage its use throughout our application process. However, our goal is to get to know and hire the authentic you - your skills, experience, and values. We don't want to hire an AI-generated version of you. We consider AI to be a valuable tool, not something that should shadow you as an individual.

How we use AI in the hiring process

Candidate experience is really important to us, and our Talent team use AI notetakers during interviews so they can focus purely on their conversation with you. All hiring decisions are made by humans - not AI. Let us know if you have any questions!