Senior Software Engineer - Own Impact, AI-Driven Systems

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

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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

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.