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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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 <li>
 Model training and serving
 </li>
 <li>
 Experiment tracking
 </li>
 <li>
 Kubernetes
 </li>
 <li>
 Cloud infrastructure
 </li>
 <li>
 Open-source MLOps tooling
 </li>
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 Taking interesting prototypes and making them work properly in the real world
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 
 
 
 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?
 
</div>

Machine Learning Engineer

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.
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Senior Back-End Software 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)

Speechify

<div>The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline</li>
<li>Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.</li>
<li>Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team's dataset roadmap to power Speechify's next-generation consumer and enterprise products.</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of industry experience in software development.</li>
<li>Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments</li>
<li>Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)</li>
<li>Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus</li>
<li>Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.</li>
</ul>
What we offer
<ul>
<li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</div>

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Manchester, United Kingdom

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

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!
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Lead Software Engineer - Agent Safety