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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 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.
 
#LI-Hybrid
 
#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: 26 Aug 2026
 
Location: 
Manchester, GB, M15 4PR
 
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 Req ID: 3900

Lead Software Engineer

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

And Digital

<div>Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We&rsquo;ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or &lsquo;Clubs&rsquo;) so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world&rsquo;s digital skills gap.
What you&rsquo;ll bring to the table:
We&rsquo;re looking for a high-calibre data-focused Business Analyst / Consultant who can sit at the intersection of business, data and technology, helping clients turn business problems into data products that deliver real value.
The role is primarily about acting as the conduit between business stakeholders and technical/data engineering teams. You&rsquo;ll work with stakeholders to understand the problem they are trying to solve, challenge and clarify requirements, and translate these into clear requirements and outcomes that engineers and data teams can work with.
You&rsquo;ll stay close to delivery, working with technical teams to answer questions, resolve ambiguity and make sure what is being built meets the underlying business need. Just as importantly, you&rsquo;ll work with users and stakeholders to land and embed data products, driving adoption, gathering feedback and making sure they are actually being used and delivering the intended value.
Key skills and experience include:<ul><li>
Strong business analysis, consulting and problem-solving skills, ideally in data, analytics or digital environments</li><li>
Ability to work with stakeholders to uncover the real business problem rather than simply capture stated requirements</li><li>
Ability to translate between business and technical teams, turning sometimes ambiguous needs into clear, actionable requirements</li><li>
Good understanding of data, analytics and data products &ndash; enough to work effectively with data engineers, analysts and architects and get into the detail when needed</li><li>
Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, including confidence working directly with client stakeholders</li><li>
Experience supporting products through the full lifecycle, from discovery and requirements through delivery, adoption and continuous improvement</li><li>
A strong focus on business outcomes, adoption and value, rather than seeing delivery as complete once a technical solution has been built</li><li>
Curious, proactive and comfortable taking ownership, challenging thinking and bringing structure to ambiguous problems</li></ul>
This would suit someone who has built strong foundations as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Product Analyst or Data Consultant and is ready to take on more ownership, client responsibility and leadership within a consulting environment.
Why join AND Digital?<ul><li>
We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving.</li></ul>
By joining AND, we&rsquo;ll provide:<ul><li>
Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people&rsquo;s lives.</li><li>
A &ldquo;Blended Working&rdquo; model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.</li><li>
A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.</li><li>
An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don&rsquo;t have to study in your own free time.</li><li>
Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members.</li><li>
A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.</li></ul>
Benefits<ul><li>
25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays</li><li>
2 days per year for volunteering</li><li>
Share scheme</li><li>
A &pound;1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan</li><li>
PLUS many more</li></ul>
For a full list of benefits - click here
AI Statement
We champion tech that helps people work smarter, but we want to get to know you! If you use AI to assist with your application or interview prep, please ensure all information submitted remains an accurate, truthful representation of your personal achievements and capabilities rather than generating false or misleading information. We may reject applications where AI is used inappropriately at any stage of the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities Statement
At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.</div>

Data & Business Analyst -FTC

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.
We also foster a work environment focused on well-being and career development. Additional perks may include wellness initiatives, fitness programs, and team-building activities.
https://www.verisk.com/company/careers/
Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine, or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
Verisk Employee Privacy Notice</div>

Senior Back-End Software Engineer

CreateFuture

<div>CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what's not working and helping them to build the future. 
 
We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel, and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. 
 
About the role and team 
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Technical Lead with a strong background in .NET, AWS, event-driven architecture, and continuous delivery to join a team delivering and modernising a broad range of business-critical applications and services. This is very much a lead engineer role: you'll spend the majority of your time writing code, setting technical direction by example, and working closely with engineering teams and client stakeholders. 
 
The successful candidate will work across a broad technology landscape including .NET, Next,js and AWS. You will play a key role in building scalable, event-driven, cloud-native solutions, improving existing systems, and setting the technical bar for delivery. 
 
This role requires someone comfortable operating within challenging technical environments, able to work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to simplify, improve, and evolve existing services. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, as many existing platforms and services have significant operational and organisational investment behind them. 
 
Key Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Act as a hands-on Tech Lead, writing production code as the majority of your day-to-day activity while setting technical direction for the team.
</li>
<li>Design, develop, and maintain applications and services using .NET technologies and AWS cloud platforms.
</li>
<li>Work hands-on across a broad technology landscape including .NET, Next.js and AWS
</li>
<li>Drive continuous delivery practices, improving build, test, and release pipelines to enable frequent, low-risk deployments.
</li>
<li>Identify opportunities to simplify, rationalise, and improve existing systems and services.
</li>
<li>Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
</li>
<li>Support cloud-native engineering practices and platform improvements across AWS environments.
</li>
<li>Contribute to frontend application development using Next.js or similar modern JavaScript frameworks.
</li>
<li>Engage directly and confidently with business stakeholders, translating technical trade-offs into terms that support good decision-making.
</li>
<li>Promote best practices in software engineering, maintainability, scalability, and operational excellence.
</li>
<li>Support teams through technical challenges and modernisation initiatives.
</li>
</ul><div>Required Experience</div>
<ul><li>Strong, hands-on experience as a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer working within .NET environments.</li>
<li>Good experience across both modern .NET and legacy .NET Framework applications.</li>
<li>Strong experience with AWS cloud technologies.</li>
<li>Strong experience designing and implementing event-driven architecture.</li>
<li>Strong experience with continuous delivery, including CI/CD pipeline design and delivery automation.</li>
<li>Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.</li>
<li>Experience working within complex or evolving technical environments.</li>
<li>Frontend development experience using Next.js or similar JavaScript frameworks.</li>
<li>Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging directly with business stakeholders.</li>
<li>Comfortable working hands-on within challenging technical environments, spending the majority of time writing code rather than managing people.</li>
<li>Ability to work collaboratively across engineering and business teams.</li>
</ul><div>Nice to Have</div>
<ul><li>Experience modernising legacy enterprise applications and services.</li>
<li>Exposure to WCF, WPF, and broader legacy Microsoft technology stacks.</li>
<li>Experience supporting platform consolidation or transformation initiatives.</li>
<li>Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and harness engineering concepts. 
 
Note: this role requires onsite time in the office in Manchester 2-3 days per week.</li>
</ul><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader">What we'll offer you:</h3>

We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. 
 
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.

We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Our hiring process</h3>

We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.

It usually looks like this:
<ul>
<li>Call with our Talent Acquisition Team</li>
<li>Role specific capability interview</li>
</ul>
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader">
Inclusion at CreateFuture</h3>

We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.

If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.

We look forward to your application!</div></div>

Technical Lead (.NET/AWS) - Manchester

Kraken

<div>Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!
Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.
We create the technology that redefines utilities and unlocks a new energy system of the future. By optimising renewable generation, building a more intelligent grid, and empowering utilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience, our operating system is transforming the industry worldwide.
It&rsquo;s an incredibly exciting time to work in energy. Join us on our mission to improve the lives of ONE BILLION humans within the decade and shape a cleaner, better future for everyone.
AI is a key investment area for Kraken Technologies as we look to expand our existing capabilities. A crucial part of this is broadening the foundational infrastructure to enable teams across the organisation to use AI effectively to accelerate our mission.
You&rsquo;ll work in the Agent Safety/Evals team, a new sub-team within AI Foundations. We build the shared platforms, harnesses, and guardrails that enable engineering and product teams to safely, reliably, and deterministically use machine learning and generative AI agents for internal systems and workflows across the business. This is a delivery-focused team that sits at the intersection of engineering and delivery, focusing on empowering our internal users.
The Role
We&rsquo;re hiring a Lead Software Engineer to head our newly formed Agent Safety/Evals team. As AI agents take on more autonomous tasks across Kraken's internal workflows, this role is critical to ensuring they do so securely and predictably.
This is a leadership role focused on constraining our internally facing AI agents to an expected operation space and guaranteeing system reliability.
You will define the technical strategy for how we evaluate models, enforce safety guardrails, and govern AI behavior across internal platforms, skills, and harnesses. You&rsquo;ll work closely with the broader AI Foundations team and engineers across Kraken to ensure that our push for rapid AI adoption in internal tooling never compromises on security, determinism, or quality.
What you'll own<ul><li>
Lead the technical direction for internal agent safety: Design and implement systems focused on the reliability, security, and determinism of LLMs and autonomous agents, constraining them strictly to expected operational spaces within our internal ecosystems.</li><li>
Build robust evaluation frameworks: Develop scalable harnesses and evals tailored to internal workflows and skills. You will be responsible for asking the right types of questions about the quality and reproducibility of our evals, while engineering the systems to measure them robustly.</li><li>
Implement guardrails and governance: Create and enforce pre- and post-generation guardrails, managing the overarching governance of AI models operating within internal tools and platforms.</li><li>
Drive AI security and observability: Build out dedicated auth/permissions for internal AI agents, establish deep monitoring/observability pipelines, and define incident response protocols for AI-specific anomalies.</li><li>
Verification and Red Teaming: Lead continuous verification efforts and red teaming exercises to proactively identify vulnerabilities, prompt injections, or unpredictable behaviours in our internal AI implementations.</li><li>
Operate in AWS: Deploy, run, and support high-throughput, low-latency safety services for internal use cases; make sensible architecture/cost tradeoffs; partner effectively with platform/techops/security stakeholders.</li></ul>
 What you bring to the party<ul><li>
Strong technical leadership: Proven experience leading technical initiatives or teams, capable of setting the technical vision for complex, ambiguous domains.</li><li>
Deep software engineering fundamentals: Senior/advanced capability in designing secure components end-to-end, testing thoroughly, and reasoning heavily about system design, concurrency, and architecture tradeoffs. (Python preferred).</li><li>
Expertise in AI Evaluation and Safety: A highly critical thinker who understands the nuances of LLM behavior. You must be comfortable interrogating the quality of AI outputs and deeply experienced in building harnesses to measure it reproducibly.</li><li>
Security and Governance mindset: Experience with threat modeling, authentication, red teaming, or building guardrails for internal systems, tooling, or platforms.</li><li>
Cloud experience (AWS): Comfortable running internal services, owning reliability/scalability, and collaborating with platform/techops/security partners.</li><li>
Excellent communication: Able to synthesize complex safety and eval metrics into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul>
What Success Looks Like<ul><li>
Confidence in Internal Tooling: Engineers across Kraken can deploy new autonomous models, AI skills, and internal agents with total confidence, knowing they are bound by reliable safety guardrails and strict operational constraints within our internal ecosystems.</li><li>
High-Quality Internal Evals: You have established a culture and infrastructure of robust, highly reproducible evaluation metrics that accurately reflect the real-world performance and safety of our internal-facing AI tooling and harnesses.</li><li>
Resilient Internal Infrastructure: AI security, monitoring, and incident response are treated as first-class citizens, ensuring that any erratic agent behavior in our internal platforms is immediately caught and mitigated before it affects broader operations.</li><li>
Technical Leadership: Strong collaboration across AI Foundations helps accelerate secure internal AI adoption; you are actively mentoring engineers and shaping the company's internal AI governance strategy.</li></ul>
️ Bonus points
<ul><li>Experience with specific LLM evaluation and safety frameworks (e.g., Inspect AI, Ragas, OpenAI Evals, NeMo Guardrails).</li><li>
Django experience and strong backend engineering patterns (security, performance, maintainability).</li><li>
Experience with Datadog for complex observability, tracing, and monitoring in AI environments.</li><li>
Familiarity with foundational AI engineering tooling like Pydantic AI, LiteLLM, or LangChain.</li></ul>
Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at inclusion@kraken.tech. We&rsquo;ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!
Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we&rsquo;re looking for! At Kraken, we're creating a team of genuine, honest, empathetic people. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We consider all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.<ul><li>Our (i) Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Notice, (ii) Website Privacy Notice and (iii) Cookie Notice govern the collection and use of your personal data in connection with your application and use of our website. These policies explain how we handle your data and outline your rights under applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your information, object to processing, or withdraw consent. By applying, you acknowledge that you&rsquo;ve read, understood and consent to these terms</li></ul>
Please note that, in line with our current recruitment policy, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position; applicants must have the right to work in the country that they're applying to, at the time of application.*</div>

Lead Software Engineer - Agent Safety

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

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