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Hiiya

<div>
 
 Hiiya are hiring
 
 MLOps Engineers in Manchester.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 And this is proper AI work not &ldquo;we bought everyone Copilot and now our website says we&rsquo;re AI-first.&rdquo;
 
 
 
 
 
 The company is a specialist MLOps consultancy working with clients to actually build, deploy and productionise machine learning systems.
 
 
 
 
 
 That means projects involving things like:
 
 
 
 
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 Self-hosted LLMs and AI agents
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 RAG systems
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 Computer vision
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 Model training and serving
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 Experiment tracking
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 Kubernetes
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 Cloud infrastructure
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 Open-source MLOps tooling
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 Taking interesting prototypes and making them work properly in the real world
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 They&rsquo;ve worked across everything from startups and major organisations through to public sector and secure government environments.
 
 
 
 
 
 I&rsquo;m recruiting at two levels:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senior MLOps Engineer | &pound;65k to &pound;80k
 
 
 
 
 
 
 This is primarily a hands-on engineering role.
 
 
 
 
 
 You&rsquo;ll be building production-grade ML systems in Python, deploying them into cloud environments, working with modern DevOps/MLOps tooling and dealing directly with customers.
 
 
 
 
 
 You don&rsquo;t necessarily need &ldquo;MLOps Engineer&rdquo; written on your current job title.
 
 
 
 
 
 You could come from ML Engineering, DevOps, Data Engineering or a similar background, provided you&rsquo;ve actually built and deployed ML software in production.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lead MLOps Engineer | &pound;80k to &pound;100k
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Still technical &amp; writing code hands on.
 
 
 
 
 
 But you&rsquo;ll also take more ownership of projects, architecture and engineering standards, mentor other engineers, lead delivery and work directly with clients to figure out what they actually need.
 
 
 
 
 
 So they&rsquo;re looking for somebody who can explain a technical decision to an engineer, a customer and potentially somebody who thinks Kubernetes is a fitness class.
 
 
 
 
 
 The wider environment is very engineering-led, they like open source &amp; they invest time into R&amp;D.
 
 
 
 
 
 They actively encourage engineers to experiment with new tools rather than waiting three years for Gartner to tell them it&rsquo;s safe.
 
 
 
 
 
 And some of the stuff they&rsquo;re building is genuinely interesting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Important logistical bit before 400 people message me asking if it&rsquo;s remote:
 
 
 
 📍 Central Manchester
 
 
 🏢 Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The three office days are fixed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 There&rsquo;s also an important eligibility requirement.
 
 
 
 
 
 Some projects require UK Government
 
 SC security clearance
 
 , so you
 
 must have been continuously resident in the UK for at least the last 5 years
 
 .
 
 
 
 
 
 Unfortunately, that bit isn&rsquo;t negotiable either.
 
 
 
 
 
 If you&rsquo;re an ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer or DevOps-minded engineer who wants to spend more of your time building actual AI systems rather than putting &ldquo;AI enthusiast&rdquo; in your LinkedIn headline, what are you waiting for?
 
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Machine Learning Engineer

RedCompass Labs

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 AI Engineer
 
 
 
 Manchester, hybrid (60% office presence per year after onboarding period)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 About RedCompass Labs:
 
 
 
 RedCompass Labs are payments experts focused exclusively on payments modernization. Over the last 23 years, RedCompass Labs has delivered 500+ projects across the world&rsquo;s major payments schemes and platforms, including ISO 20022, SEPA, Swift, the Real-time Payments Network, and FedNow, ISO 20022 migrations, and FIS OPF, Finastra GPP, and ACI Worldwide.
 
 
 Its flagship Payments Expert Agent is an AI solution purpose-built for the full payments modernization software development lifecycle. Trained on decades of deep payments expertise and more than 30,000 curated documents, the agent is certified to SOC 2 Type II.
 
 
 RedCompass Labs supports clients from offices in London, Warsaw, Brussels, Miami, Boston, Toronto, and Pune. For more information, visit www.redcompasslabs.com.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mission:
 
 
 
 Imagine reducing a 14-day financial analysis task to just 2 hours. At RedCompass Labs, we don't just imagine-we've built it.
 
 
 We're transforming the trillion-dollar payments industry through intelligent automation. At the heart of our mission is AnalystAccelerator.ai, our proprietary multi-agent AI platform built to accelerate complex analysis in global banking and compliance.
 
 
 We&rsquo;re seeking exceptional AI Engineers to join our foundational AI Engineering team. Your role: transform cutting-edge research and prototypes into robust, production-ready AI solutions. You'll tackle sophisticated challenges within a regulated, high-stakes environment, developing scalable AI that augments human expertise.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 As an AI Engineer, you would:
 
 
 
 You will take proven concepts from research and turn them into production-grade, client-facing AI solutions:
 
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 Design, build, and scale
 
 sophisticated multi-agent workflows that automate complex financial analysis.
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 Engineer robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
 
 pipelines leveraging financial rulebooks, regulatory documentation, and client knowledge bases.
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 Develop secure, scalable backend services and APIs
 
 (primarily Python/FastAPI) deployed in Azure cloud environments.
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 Implement and enhance MLOps and DevOps practices
 
 , using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines, Docker containers, and Kubernetes orchestration.
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 Collaborate closely
 
 with product managers, domain experts, and UX designers, converting complex business requirements into clear, impactful features.
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 Candidate Profile
 
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 We&rsquo;re seeking product-centric engineers who thrive on complex challenges, rapidly acquiring new technical skills, and delivering impactful
 
 AI solutions
 
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 4+ years
 
 of professional software engineering experience, with proven expertise developing and deploying production-grade systems.
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 Experience
 
 in modern AI
 
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 Strong proficiency in either
 
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 Understanding in embedding models,
 
 retrieval-based AI architectures (RAG)
 
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 Familiarity with cloud-native software development, containerization and orchestration technologies.
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 Commitment to learning and leveraging new technologies and AI tools rapidly and effectively.
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 A &lsquo;t-shaped&rsquo; engineering mindset, and a willingness to stretch into tasks such as automation testing, devops, data engineering when the work needs it.
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 Bonus Qualifications:
 
 
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 Previous experience with multi-agent systems or complex workflow automation.
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 Background in fintech, banking, payments, or compliance industries.
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 Experience with high-performance API frameworks (FastAPI).
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 Our Technology Ecosystem:
 
 
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 Core AI &amp; LLMs: Python, LLM frameworks
 
 such as
 
 Autogen
 
 ,
 
 LangChain
 
 ,
 
 Pydantic-AI
 
 , etc.
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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
 
 and
 
 MCP servers.
 
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 Backend &amp; API Layer:
 
 FastAPI, RESTful APIs, Azure Cloud, NoSQL databases, Azure AI
 
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 Front-end
 
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 TypeScript and React
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 What We Offer
 
 
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 Work on
 
 high
 
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 impact financial technology projects
 
 that shape the future of payments and AI‑driven innovation
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 Join a
 
 trust
 
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 based, transparent, and collaborative culture
 
 where your voice matters and ideas influence outcomes
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 Enjoy
 
 real ownership and autonomy
 
 in how you approach challenges, deliver work, and grow your expertise
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 Be part of a
 
 diverse and inclusive global team
 
 across Canada, the UK, Europe, and Asia, where fairness and meritocracy guide every decision
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 Collaborate daily with
 
 senior industry experts and leaders
 
 , accelerating your professional development
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 Experience a
 
 human, respectful, and well
 
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 structured recruitment and onboarding journey
 
 designed around clarity and mutual fit
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 Grow through
 
 continuous learning
 
 , cross‑functional work, and exposure to both consulting and product‑building environments
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 Join a company that values
 
 integrity, curiosity, and continuous improvement
 
 , and empowers you to make meaningful impact from day one.
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 Up to 10% of annual earnings as a personal performance bonus
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 Life insurance
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 Group Income Protection
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 Health Insurance for you and your family
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 Dental Insurance for you and your family
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 Pension: the pension is currently 4% employer and 4% employee. You also have the option to increase your contributions to your private pension, if you wish.
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 28 days annual holiday plus Public &amp; Bank holidays
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 RedCompass Labs is committed to promoting and supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace, ensuring fair and equitable treatment for all. This fuels innovation and enables us to work better together with each other and for our clients.
 
 
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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Bauer Media Group

Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life
 You’ll be joining Bauer Media Audio (BMA), Europe’s biggest commercial audio broadcaster, connecting audiences across nine markets to the music, stories and experiences they love. Bauer Media Audio is making a significant investment in a new in‑house software engineering hub in Manchester. This new hub reinforces Manchester’s position as a key technology centre for Bauer Media Audio, alongside its existing locations. We’re creating a new engineering team to build innovative business-critical solutions that will power Bauer Media’s audio platform of the future. Our team is built around squads, each aligned to a distinct value stream, with a layer of cross-squad roles – people whose expertise and support spans the whole team. Each squad will be led by a Product Manager and Lead Engineer, working in partnership and jointly accountable for their squad's work and outcomes. Squads are intentionally small – typically around five to six engineers – keeping them focused, collaborative, and able to move quickly. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, working closely with product and technology peers to ensure our platforms meet the evolving needs of the business and our international markets.
 
The Difference You Will Make
 As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in laying the technical foundations of this new engineering team. You’ll lead hands-on development of infrastructure and prototyping work, mentor engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing systems.
 Working closely with your squad, you will ensure the squad's work aligns with our technical direction and product priorities, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, shared ownership, and engineering excellence. You will play a key role in helping to create a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment that is psychologically safe, where everyone can be their authentic selves and do their best work, every day.
 
Your Role
 
Build and deliver Develop and maintain features and services across the platform, taking end-to-end ownership of your work from design through to deployment. Contribute to early-stage prototyping and infrastructure work, helping to shape the foundations of the platform.
 
Shape technical direction Contribute to architectural decisions within your squad, sharing your experience and perspective to inform technical choices. Collaborate with your Lead Engineer and product colleagues to ensure your work aligns with the squad's technical direction and delivery goals.
 Mentor and support Support the growth of junior engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing — helping to build a team where everyone improves together. Play your part in growing the team — contributing to interviews and helping new engineers get up to speed quickly.
 Champion quality and operational excellence Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD, and a culture of automation and observability as a natural part of how you build. Lead on testing strategies and uphold security standards day to day. Participate in incident management rotas, providing hands-on technical support and clear communication during high-pressure situations.
 
What We're Looking For
 
Experience of some but not necessarily all of the following: 
Technical capability
 
Solid hands-on engineering experience, with active proficiency across frontend and backend development – enough to lead by example and contribute to technical decisions. Experience with our core stack — a Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka back end, with a TypeScript/React front end. Experience designing and building services within a microservices or domain-driven architecture — defining service boundaries and working with asynchronous, event-driven communication (e.g. via Kafka) — and an understanding of how those decisions play out once services are running in production. CI/CD, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices applied as part of everyday delivery. Security best practices embedded in day-to-day development. An interest in AI-assisted development tooling and how it can improve productivity and code quality.
 
Collaboration and communication
 
Experience mentoring engineers and supporting their growth, with an awareness of how to adapt your approach to different people and experience levels. Strong communication skills – able to collaborate across disciplines and articulate technical ideas clearly to non-technical colleagues. A habit of documenting decisions and sharing knowledge across the team.
 
Industry and delivery experience
 
Experience working in a product-led, agile software delivery environment. Incident management experience or familiarity with on-call responsibilities. Media, audio streaming, or consumer platform experience is a plus.
 
Working Pattern and Location
 This is a permanent, hybrid, full-time role with an in-office presence twice a week in our Manchester hub. Like all roles in the team, this one includes participation in incident management rotas – we schedule these collaboratively, taking into account everyone's responsibilities and commitments outside of work.
 
Why Join Us?
 
The chance to work in a team building platforms that reach millions of listeners across Europe, with real impact on the products people use every day. A growing engineering organisation investing heavily in its people, practices, and technology – with genuine support for skills development. A collaborative, product-led environment where engineering has a clear and respected voice in shaping business outcomes. An environment that values empathy, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. #LI-Hybrid
 
About Bauer Media Group
 
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
 
What’s in it for you
 
You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
 Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
 We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
 You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
 And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
 
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
 
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
 
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
 
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
 
Date Job Posting Last Updated: 25 Aug 2026
 
Location: 
Manchester, GB, M15 4PR
 
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 Req ID: 3872

Senior Software Engineer (Java, Spring Boot)

Evolve Energy Supply Limited

Senior DeveloperOwn the outcome. Build with confidence. Help others become stronger engineers.SALARY&pound;60k - &pound;70kLOCATIONManchester/Lytham St AnnesWORKING PATTERNHybridThe opportunityEvolve Energy is a rapidly scaling business in an exciting phase of engineering transformation. We are modernising mature platforms, developing new cloud services and increasing the capacity, reliability and speed of delivery needed to support business growth. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Developer who can take ownership of outcomes across complex changes, not simply complete assigned development tasks. You will combine strong software engineering with sound design judgement, operational ownership, business understanding and practical support for the engineers around you.What success looks like Cross-system changes are delivered safely and work well in production. Quality and operational risks are visible. Technical decisions are proportionate and connected to business outcomes. Less experienced engineers grow in confidence and independence.Role purposeOwn the technical delivery and operational outcome of significant changes across services and system boundaries. You will remain hands-on in the code while shaping solutions, coordinating dependencies, managing technical risk and ensuring changes transition successfully into production support. You will work closely with developers, quality engineers, business analysts, product colleagues and business stakeholders. You will challenge requirements constructively, explain technical trade-offs clearly and help the team improve its engineering practice through reviews, pairing, coaching and shared learning.What you will doBuild it well&middot; Establish and reinforce quality expectations within your team, applying TDD, BDD and appropriate automated testing practices&middot; Use testing to improve software design, maintainability and confidence in change, balancing delivery speed with supportability&middot; Design and deliver complex solutions across services and system boundaries within agreed architectural principles and cloud adoption standards&middot; Evaluate and explain trade-offs across performance, security, maintainability, cost, risk and delivery speed&middot; Use code reviews, pairing and clear feedback to improve engineering practice across the team&middot; Use quality, defect, technical debt and operational evidence to prioritise improvements within owned areasDeliver effectively&middot; Take ownership of delivery and operational outcomes, coordinating work across multiple systems or components&middot; Identify technical dependencies, delivery risks and blockers early, then work with the team to maintain momentum&middot; Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices and release confidence within the areas you own&middot; Use trunk-based development, short-lived branches and feature flags to support frequent, low-risk change and controlled rollback&middot; Improve observability through meaningful metrics, logs, traces and alerting, using telemetry to understand service behaviour and customer impact&middot; Drive root-cause analysis after incidents and turn production learning into improvements in design, testing, deployment and supportUse AI responsibly to improve engineering&middot; Use AI-assisted development, testing, analysis and documentation techniques where they improve delivery outcomes&middot; Critically evaluate AI-generated outputs to protect quality, security and maintainability, retaining appropriate human review&middot; Identify practical opportunities for AI to reduce repetitive effort, improve troubleshooting or increase useful test coverage&middot; Share effective usage patterns and lessons learned so the wider team can adopt AI responsibly.Solve the right problems&middot; Understand customer, operational, commercial and financial drivers, and connect technical choices to measurable outcomes&middot; Challenge requirements and assumptions constructively, shaping solutions around business value rather than technical preference&middot; Contribute technical insight to product and prioritisation decisions, identifying opportunities to reduce cost, risk, effort or customer friction&middot; Establish meaningful performance baselines for significant changes and use telemetry to identify bottlenecks, capacity constraints and scaling risks&middot; Design services that are observable, supportable and resilient, with expected business growth considered from the outsetGrow capability&middot; Provide technical leadership within your delivery area, helping the team align around clear and proportionate technical decisions&middot; Coach less experienced engineers through pairing, reviews, actionable feedback and stretch opportunities&middot; Reduce key-person dependency through useful documentation, knowledge transfer and shared ownership across services&middot; Evaluate and trial new technologies, tools and practices where value can be demonstrated, making recommendations based on evidence&middot; Introduce practical automation, tooling and engineering improvements, then help the team sustain successful changesYour technical backgroundWe are more interested in evidence of sound judgement and outcomes than a checklist of technologies. You should nevertheless bring strong, current engineering experience in most of the following areas:&middot; Strong commercial C# and modern .NET experience, with the ability to produce clean, idiomatic and well-tested production code&middot; Hands-on experience designing and delivering services-based or distributed solutions across system boundaries&middot; Microsoft Azure experience, ideally including Azure SQL, Service Bus, Functions, Key Vault, container platforms and monitoring services&middot; CI/CD experience using Azure DevOps or equivalent, including automated build, test and deployment controls&middot; Strong knowledge of TDD, automated testing, secure engineering, observability and operational support&middot; Experience with APIs, event-driven integration, SQL Server and Entity Framework Core&middot; Web development experience using ASP.NET Core and modern HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Blazor experience would be useful&middot; Practical use of AI-assisted engineering tools while maintaining security, quality and human accountabilitySenior-level experience&middot; Evidence of owning outcomes for significant or cross-system changes from refinement through release and production support&middot; Ability to make sound design decisions, document trade-offs and make risks and assumptions clear to engineers and stakeholders&middot; A track record of improving quality, delivery flow, reliability, observability or operational performance within owned areas&middot; Experience coaching developers, with examples of helping others become more capable and independent&middot; Confidence working with product and business colleagues to shape requirements and translate needs into sustainable technical outcomes&middot; A pragmatic approach that protects quality without introducing unnecessary complexity or processHighly desirable&middot; Experience modernising mature or monolithic applications through incremental change&middot; Experience with .NET Aspire, Docker or other container technologies, Bicep or Terraform, and OpenTelemetry or distributed tracing&middot; Knowledge of feature-flag frameworks, progressive delivery and controlled rollback strategies&middot; Experience improving application performance, capacity management or service reliability for business-critical systems&middot; Experience in utilities, CRM platforms or other operationally complex environments&middot; Relevant Microsoft Azure certification, although practical evidence matters more than certification aloneThe person we are looking for&middot; You are a hands-on engineer who takes responsibility for the outcome, not only the implementation&middot; You start with the business or customer need and choose technology proportionately&middot; You communicate clearly, make trade-offs understandable and raise risks early&middot; You use evidence from delivery and production to improve decisions and engineering practice&middot; You enjoy helping other engineers grow and willingly share knowledge rather than becoming a single point of dependency&middot; You combine ambition with pragmatism, raising standards without creating unnecessary complexityWhy join Evolve Energy? You will have meaningful ownership of important technical outcomes and the opportunity to influence how we design, build and operate software during a significant period of change. This is a genuinely hands-on senior role with scope to improve platforms, engineering practice and the capability of the team around you.How to applyPlease share your CV together with a short summary of a technical change, engineering improvement or mentoring outcome that best demonstrates how you took ownership beyond the code itself.NO AGENCIES PLEASE.Pay: &pound;60,000.00-&pound;70,000.00 per yearBenefits:<ul><li>Company events</li><li>Company pension</li><li>Cycle to work scheme</li><li>Flexitime</li><li>Paid volunteer time</li><li>Private medical insurance</li></ul>Application question(s):<ul><li>Reliably commute to the Manchester office with occasional business-critical travel to Lytham.</li></ul>Work authorisation:<ul><li>United Kingdom (required)</li></ul>Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester M2

Senior Developer

Ignite Insurance Systems

<div><div>At Verisk Ignite , we build innovative technology solutions that help our customers make better decisions through data, analytics, and software. We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Back-End Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team and play a key role in designing and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient software platforms.
This is a senior technical position suited to an engineer with 10+ years of commercial software development experience who is passionate about backend architecture, engineering excellence, and team development. You'll be responsible for leading complex technical initiatives, influencing architectural direction, and mentoring engineers across the organization.
This role is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to take the next step toward a future Principal Engineer position. Beyond hands-on development, you'll act as a technical leader, helping shape engineering standards, supporting the growth of other engineers, and driving the adoption of modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted software development.
#LI-SD2 #LI-Hybrid</div></div>
 <div><div><ul><li>Design, develop, and deliver complex back-end services, APIs, and distributed systems that power business-critical and customer-facing applications.
</li><li>Lead the technical delivery of strategic initiatives from concept through production deployment.
</li><li>Drive architectural decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and performance.
</li><li>Champion the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows throughout the software development lifecycle.
</li><li>Translate business requirements into technical solutions, estimates, and delivery plans.
</li><li>Design and implement robust APIs, microservices, and data-driven solutions.
</li><li>Identify and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
</li><li>Conduct code reviews and design reviews to ensure high engineering standards across teams.
</li><li>Define and improve best practices for testing, observability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
</li><li>Investigate complex production issues and drive continuous improvement through root-cause analysis.
</li><li>Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability, and performance requirements.
</li><li>Serve as a senior technical mentor for engineers across the organization, providing coaching, guidance, and hands-on support to accelerate individual and team growth.
</li><li>Partner with Engineering Managers and technical leaders to help develop engineering capability, career progression frameworks, and technical excellence initiatives.
</li><li>Lead by example in promoting a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
</li>Create and maintain clear technical documentation. 
<li>
</li></ul>Technology environment
<div><ul><li>C# / .NET
</li><li>Microsoft Azure
</li><li>Kubernetes
</li><li>GitHub &amp; GitHub Actions
</li><li>SQL Server &amp; PostgreSQL
</li><li>REST APIs &amp; Microservices
</li><li>Event-Driven Architectures
</li><li>Grafana
</li><li>AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot</li></ul></div></div></div>
 <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Required
<ul><li>10+ years of commercial software engineering experience , with a strong focus on back-end development.
</li><li>Expert-level proficiency in C# and .NET .
</li><li>Extensive experience designing, building, and supporting scalable APIs, services, and distributed systems.
</li><li>Proven experience delivering secure, resilient, high-performance software solutions in production environments.
</li><li>Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
</li><li>Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure .
</li><li>Strong experience with relational databases, data modelling, and query optimisation, ideally with SQL Server and PostgreSQL .
</li><li>Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern deployment approaches.
</li><li>Strong understanding of secure software development principles and application security.
</li><li>Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction.
</li><li>Significant experience mentoring and developing engineers at different stages of their careers.
</li><li>Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
</li>Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery, quality, and productivity. 
<li>
</li></ul> 
Nice to have:
<ul><li>Experience with Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or similar messaging technologies.
</li><li>Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices.
</li><li>Experience operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
</li><li>Exposure to front-end technologies such as TypeScript, Vue.js, or modern JavaScript frameworks.
</li>Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and operational tooling. 
<li>
</li></ul> 
What success looks like
<ul><li>Delivering scalable, secure, and resilient backend services that support Verisk Ignite's products and customers.
</li><li>Driving strategic architectural decisions that enable sustainable growth and long-term maintainability.
</li><li>Building high-performing engineering teams through mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership.
</li><li>Establishing and promoting engineering best practices across projects and teams.
</li><li>Improving development efficiency through thoughtful adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.
</li><li>Raising the technical capability of the organization through knowledge sharing and leadership.
</li><li>Being recognized as a trusted technical leader with a clear path toward a future Principal Engineer role.
</li><li>Balancing delivery speed with long-term quality, reliability, and scalability.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
 <div>Our People, Our Culture
For more than 50 years, Verisk has helped property and casualty insurers make smarter decisions about risk through AI-powered risk modeling, advanced analytics, and technology solutions spanning the entire policy lifecycle. We are a leading strategic data, analytics, and technology partner to the global insurance industry, guided by core values of learning, caring, and results while maintaining the highest ethical standards as stewards of the industry's most comprehensive datasets. Learn more about Verisk and what we are doing within the insurance industry.
For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work&reg; for outstanding workplace culture in the US, the fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and the second consecutive year in Poland. In addition, we&rsquo;ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World&rsquo;s Best Employer, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.
Our Culture : Explore our inclusive, people-first culture that fosters innovation, collaboration, and belonging.
Awards &amp; Recognition : See why Verisk is consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work&trade; around the world.
Our Businesses : Learn about the diverse industries we serve &mdash; from insurance and energy to financial services and beyond.
Life at Verisk : Discover what it&rsquo;s like to work at Verisk through employee stories, team highlights, and culture moments.
Careers at Verisk : Join a global team of problem-solvers and innovators doing meaningful work that&rsquo;s shaping the future of industries. Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your career to the next level, Verisk offers growth, purpose, and a people-first culture
Let&rsquo;s build something meaningful together!
Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.
All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability. Verisk&rsquo;s minimum hiring age is 18 except in countries with a higher age limit subject to applicable law.
At Verisk, we provide a competitive compensation package aligned with market benchmarks and individual experience, disclosed transparently in accordance with applicable pay transparency regulations. In addition to base salary, eligible roles may include a range of incentive opportunities designed based on market research and our internal grading structure.
Our benefits portfolio varies by location; however, a typical package includes medical coverage, life insurance, pension plans, and paid time off in line with local labor laws.
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Senior Back-End Software Engineer

TRAVEL COUNSELLORS

<div>About Us
At Travel Counsellors, our customers, communities, and colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. For over 30 years, we've empowered 2,200+ independent travel agents worldwide, helping them build successful businesses while providing deeply personal, human connections with their customers. Supported by a talented team of over 400 people in our Support Offices, we create unique travel experiences that keep customers coming back. Named the Best Place to Work in Travel (2022) and ranked in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work (2023, 2024 &amp; 2025), we&rsquo;re expanding rapidly and looking for exceptional individuals to join our Head Office team.
About the Role
As Agentic Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the enterprise agentic engineering platform that enables AI agents to safely plan, reason, use tools and execute work across Travel Counsellors' technology estate. 
 
This is an agentic engineering role with strong Platform foundations. Your primary focus will be the design, development and production operation of autonomous and semi-autonomous agents for software delivery, platform operations, service reliability, security and engineering productivity. You will create reusable agent capabilities, orchestration patterns, tool integrations, memory and retrieval services, evaluation frameworks and governance controls that allow teams to adopt agentic automation safely at scale. 
 
You will treat agents as production software: versioned, tested, observable, secure, cost-controlled and accountable. Working across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data and product teams, you will turn high-value operational workflows into reliable agentic products with clear human oversight, measurable outcomes and safe rollback. 
Principal Accountabilities<ul><li>
Design, build and operate the enterprise agentic platform, including orchestration, runtime services, model routing, memory, identity and policy enforcement.</li><li>
Develop reusable agent frameworks, SDKs and patterns that enable engineering teams to build secure, scalable AI agents consistently.</li><li>
Engineer autonomous and human-in-the-loop agent workflows that plan, execute, validate and escalate tasks within defined risk and governance controls.</li><li>
Integrate agents securely with enterprise platforms, cloud services, APIs and knowledge sources using modern integration standards and Model Context Protocol (MCP).</li><li>
Build production-grade agent services using Python, cloud-native architectures, event-driven design, automation and Infrastructure as Code.</li><li>
Implement robust evaluation, observability and continuous improvement capabilities, including testing, tracing, telemetry and performance optimisation.</li><li>
Embed security, governance and responsible AI principles through least-privilege access, policy enforcement, auditability and data protection.</li><li>
Own the reliability and operational excellence of the agentic platform, including CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, incident response and production support.</li><li>
Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Architecture, Data and Risk teams to define standards, document best practices and support adoption of the platform.</li></ul> 
Required Experience<ul><li>
Hands-on experience designing and operating production AI-agent or LLM-powered systems, not only experimenting with chat interfaces or prompt prototypes.</li><li>
Strong software engineering capability in Python, including API design, automated testing, asynchronous processing, dependency management and production debugging.</li><li>
Practical experience with agent orchestration, structured tool calling, workflow state, retrieval-augmented generation and human-in-the-loop patterns.</li><li>
Experience building secure integrations with enterprise APIs, repositories, cloud services, CI/CD, observability or ITSM platforms.</li><li>
Experience creating evaluation frameworks for agent quality, task completion, safety, reliability, latency and cost.</li><li>
Strong understanding of agent security, including workload identity, least privilege, secrets management, sandboxing, approvals and audit trails.</li><li>
Experience observing and operating LLM or agent workloads in production, including tracing, prompt/model/tool versioning, regression monitoring and incident response.</li><li>
Strong AWS and cloud-native engineering experience, including Infrastructure as Code, containers or serverless services, networking, IAM and monitoring.</li><li>
Experience with CI/CD and production ownership, with willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rota.</li><li>
Ability to explain complex agent behaviour, risks and trade-offs clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.</li></ul> 
Our Benefits<ul><li>
Competitive salary + annual bonus</li><li>
Flexible hybrid working</li><li>
Career development opportunities</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing to 28 after 5 years)</li><li>
Enhanced Maternity/Paternity pay</li><li>
1 day paid charity day</li><li>
Company events and incentives</li><li>
3x salary death in service benefit</li><li>
Pension scheme</li><li>
Private Medical Insurance or Healthcare Cash Plan</li><li>
Free breakfast and beverages</li></ul>
Inclusive Recruitment at Travel Counsellors 
Travel Counsellors is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, gender, disability, or any protected characteristic. We provide accommodations for individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will make every effort to accommodate reasonable adjustments where required. We believe diverse perspectives strengthen our team and encourage all to apply.
For more information about this role &ndash; and others &ndash; at Travel Counsellors, please do not hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@travelcounsellors.com</div>

Agentic Platform Engineer

Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life
 You’ll be joining Bauer Media Audio (BMA), Europe’s biggest commercial audio broadcaster, connecting audiences across nine markets to the music, stories and experiences they love. Bauer Media Audio is making a significant investment in a new in‑house software engineering hub in Manchester. This new hub reinforces Manchester’s position as a key technology centre for Bauer Media Audio, alongside its existing locations. We’re creating a new engineering team to build innovative business-critical solutions that will power Bauer Media’s audio platform of the future. Our team is built around squads, each aligned to a distinct value stream, with a layer of cross-squad roles – people whose expertise and support spans the whole team. Each squad will be led by a Product Manager and Lead Engineer, working in partnership and jointly accountable for their squad's work and outcomes. Squads are intentionally small – typically around five to six engineers – keeping them focused, collaborative, and able to move quickly. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, working closely with product and technology peers to ensure our platforms meet the evolving needs of the business and our international markets.
 
The Difference You Will Make
 As Lead Engineer, you will combine hands-on technical contribution with the day-to-day leadership and people management of a software engineering squad within our new engineering team. You will work alongside your team, writing and reviewing code, guiding technical decisions, maintaining engineering standards, supporting the growth of individual engineers, and acting as the connective tissue between your squad and the broader engineering organisation. You'll work closely with the Director of Engineering and leaders from adjacent disciplines to ensure your team’s work aligns with our technical direction and product priorities.
 
You'll lead with empathy and clarity to foster a culture of continuous improvement, shared ownership, and engineering excellence within your squad. Team leadership roles are vital to our success so you will play a key role in helping to create a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment that is psychologically safe, where everyone can be their authentic selves and do their best work, every day.
 
Your Role
 Grow your team
 
Support your engineers’ career development and build a motivated, high-performing squad through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and by creating individual growth plans.
 
Mentor junior and mid-level engineers – fostering a continuous improvement culture and helping the team build technical confidence and skills.
 
Contribute technically
 
Write and review code as an active contributor to your squad’s delivery – guiding by example on quality, maintainability, and best practice.
 
Guide architectural decisions and technical direction within your squad and contribute to broader engineering discussions.
 
Drive delivery and planning
 
Plan and manage squad capacity across projects – forecast hiring needs and allocating resources effectively to meet delivery commitments.
 
Participate in roadmap, refinement, and sprint planning sessions – working closely with Product colleagues and adjacent discipline leads, providing technical input, ensuring clear scoping, and surfacing dependencies and risks early.
 
Uphold engineering standards
 
Define and sustain coding standards and review processes – conducting code reviews focused on quality, maintainability, and consistency.
 
Track and manage technical debt within your squad – balancing debt reduction with feature delivery and escalating systemic issues where needed.
 
Ensure operational excellence
 
Participate in the in-hours and out-of-hours incident management rotas, providing hands-on technical support and clear, calm communication during high-pressure situations.
 
Advocate for the ‘you build it, you run it’ ethos – ensuring your squad is equipped to deploy, operate, and support the systems they build as part of a DevOps culture where second line out of hours support is the expectation.
 
What We're Looking For
 
Experience of some but not necessarily all of the following: 
Technical capability
 
Solid hands-on software engineering experience, with sufficient depth across frontend and backend development to guide technical decisions, review code meaningfully, and set the standard for your squad.
 
Able to lead a team across our core stack — a Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka back end, with a TypeScript/React front end — deep expertise in some areas, with the breadth to engage credibly across the rest.
 
A strong grasp of software architecture principles — domain-driven design, service boundaries, and event-driven communication (e.g. via Kafka) — and the ability to guide your squad's technical direction within a broader engineering strategy.
 
Modern engineering practices: CI/CD, containerisation, version control workflows, code review, testing strategies, and observability.
 
Security best practices embedded across the development lifecycle, with the ability to guide your squad to do the same.
 
An awareness of AI trends within engineering and an interest in AI-assisted development tooling – understanding how these tools can improve your squad's productivity and code quality.
 
Leadership and people skills
 
Leading or mentoring with a servant-leadership mindset and a genuine focus on the growth and wellbeing of your colleagues.
 
Communicating with a range of people and organisational roles, managing stakeholder expectations, representing your team’s needs, and fostering collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
 
Acting as an escalation point for your team, supporting them through complex or time-sensitive situations.
 
Taking an organised and structured approach to planning, managing priorities and keeping delivery on track.
 
Industry and delivery experience
 
Leading a software engineering team or squad in a product-led, multidisciplinary organisation, with a track record of consistent, quality delivery.
 
Agile software delivery practices and methodologies – with the experience to implement the right approach for your squad's context; SCRUM experience is a plus.
 
Adapting to evolving business priorities, communicating calmly and clearly when under pressure.
 
Media, audio streaming, or consumer platform experience is a plus.
 
Working Pattern and Location
 This is a permanent, hybrid, full-time role with an in-office presence twice a week in our Manchester hub. Like all roles in the team, this one includes participation in incident management rotas – we schedule these collaboratively, taking into account everyone's responsibilities and commitments outside of work.
 
Why Join Us?
 
The chance to lead a team building platforms that reach millions of listeners across Europe, with real impact on the products people use every day.
 
A growing engineering organisation investing heavily in its people, practices, and technology – with genuine support for leadership development.
 
A collaborative, product-led environment where engineering has a clear and respected voice in shaping business outcomes.
 
An environment that values empathy, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
 
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About Bauer Media Group
 
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
 
What’s in it for you
 
You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
 Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
 We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
 You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
 And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
 
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
 
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
 
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
 
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
 
Date Job Posting Last Updated: 26 Aug 2026
 
Location: 
Manchester, GB, M15 4PR
 
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