Software Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Manchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job description

Ready to be part of a digital transformation that directly impacts thousands of lives? At Transport for Greater Manchester, we’re on a mission to reimagine our city’s transport system, and we need passionate engineers to make it happen. If you thrive on tackling complex challenges, bringing user-focused designs to life, and building end-to-end solutions that make a real difference, this is your chance to create technology that keeps Greater Manchester moving and growing.

Your Role

As a Software Engineer at Transport for Greater Manchester, you’ll play a hands-on role in designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack solutions that keep our city moving. With end-to-end ownership of the software delivery cycle, your work will have a direct impact on how people navigate Greater Manchester. Working closely with a skilled engineering team, you’ll contribute to projects from inception to deployment, focusing on reliability, scalability, and an exceptional user experience.

Who are we?

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is at the forefront of delivering a future-proof transport strategy for Greater Manchester. This is a pivotal time for us; with the region at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse and empowered by devolution, we are shaping the UK’s largest regional economy outside London. Our vision is for world-class connectivity that drives sustainable economic growth and ensures access to opportunities for all. To achieve this, we’re building a fully integrated, high-capacity transport network that serves over 6 million journeys a day, becoming a digital transport operator to keep the region moving and thriving.

Our dynamic, collaborative team makes TfGM an exciting place to work, with ample opportunities to deliver innovative products and services while advancing your own career. We foster a culture of learning, sharing, and continuous improvement, encouraging better ways of meeting user needs through technology and data. With a dress-down environment and an emphasis on teamwork, TfGM offers a rewarding space to make a real impact.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will be able to demonstrate the skills and experience in the following key areas:

• ReactJS, Typescript, HTML, CSS.
• Cloud native development (AWS Lambda skills are an advantage)
• CI/CD pipeline development with GitHub Actions
• Experience with DynamoDB, MySQL and REDIS
• Comfortable working in an Agile development environment.

What we can offer you

This is a fixed term role for 12 months and comes with a salary of £58,539 - £63,866 per annum depending on experience. This is comprised of base salary plus market supplement, ( £47,539 - £52,866 + plus MFS £11,000, the market supplement is paid monthly and reviewed annually).

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
• Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
• Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

What's next?

If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.