Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and practical experience
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer designing, building, and supporting complex production systems
• Strong hands-on software development experience with modern programming languages such as Python, Java, Node.js, or similar
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, APIs, and microservices architectures
• Extensive experience developing cloud-native applications and services in AWS environments
• Strong data engineering background, including data modeling, ETL development, pipeline design, and large-scale data processing
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying production-grade AI agents and agentic systems for real-world business challenges
• Experience developing evaluation and testing frameworks for LLM and AI-agent solutions, including regression testing, evaluation datasets, and model performance validation
• Experience using AI-assisted development practices and transforming manual engineering workflows into automated solutions
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and operational best practices
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions across teams

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable software applications and services
• Own the technical design and implementation of complex software systems from conception through production
• Drive architectural decisions that balance scalability, maintainability, performance, and reliability
• Write, review, and improve production code, and provide constructive technical guidance and code review feedback, including validation of AI-generated code
• Promote engineering best practices through testing, automation, documentation, and continuous improvement
• Build production-grade AI agents and agentic workflows using AWS Bedrock, Anthropic/Claude, LangGraph, CrewAI, or comparable technologies
• Incorporate AI-assisted tools and automation into daily engineering practices, and turn manual or repetitive engineering processes into scalable AI-powered solutions
• Design, implement, and maintain AI evaluation frameworks, including regression testing, evaluation datasets, LLM-as-judge methodologies, and human-in-the-loop review processes
• Build and operate cloud-native software using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3, SQS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL workflows using technologies such as Glue, Spark/PySpark, Kafka, or similar platforms
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform or equivalent tools
• Drive observability, monitoring, logging, and operational readiness across software platforms and services

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• API
• AWS
• Lambda
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• ETL
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• LLM
• Python
• PySpark
• Spark
• Terraform
• microservices
• NodeJS
• Security

More:

We are Altus Group, a global business in the commercial real estate industry, and were hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a full-time role in Manchester. The salary range is 60,000–90,000; actual offers may vary based on experience, market conditions, and other factors, and the range excludes bonuses, equity, benefits, and other incentives. We offer competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans, a total rewards package supporting mental, physical, and financial well-being, professional learning through the Altus Intelligence Academy, mentorship, and access to industry data, tools, and technology. Our high-trust, high-performance culture emphasizes recognition, connection, inclusion, and collective success. Our Activity-Based Work model allows flexibility to use the office for collaboration and work remotely for focused tasks. We provide accessible candidate experiences and consider accommodation requests. AI tools may support initial screening, while our hiring professionals review assessments and make final decisions. We may conduct background checks for candidates who receive a conditional offer, in accordance with applicable laws. Only applicants selected to move forward will be contacted.

last updated 40 week of 2026