Software Architect - Manchester

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience defining architecture and engineering standards for complex systems.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput data environments, including caching, read scaling, partitioning, and storage selection.
• Experience implementing guardrails that teams follow, ideally enforced through automation.
• Strong background in AWS and modern backend engineering practices.
• Comfortable working in environments where AI contributes significantly to code and delivery.
• Experience with AI-assisted or agent-driven development environments.
• Background in real-time or high-demand platforms such as marketplaces.
• Understanding of testing and evaluation approaches for non-deterministic systems.
• Ability to design systems that remain flexible and easy to evolve over time.

Responsibilities:

• Own and define the overall system architecture across AWS, including core services and serverless components for asynchronous workloads.
• Design high-volume, high-performance data-access layers to support real-time demand.
• Establish technical standards, patterns, and architectural boundaries, ensuring they are enforced through CI and automation.
• Lead solution design and ensure a strong definition of ready before development begins.
• Continuously evolve the architecture to support scaling without requiring re-platforming.
• Collaborate on the evaluation and governance of AI-generated code and agent-driven system interactions.

Technologies:

• AI
• AI Agents
• AWS
• Architect
• Backend
• Support
• NestJS
• Serverless
• TypeScript
• Cloud

More:

We are seeking a Software Architect to take full ownership of the architecture for a high-scale, real-time platform that is being rebuilt on a modern AWS stack. We are adopting an agentic-first delivery model, where AI agents contribute alongside a small, senior engineering team. This is a system-defining role, focused on setting architectural direction, standards, and guardrails that support fast, consistent delivery. We work with TypeScript, NestJS, and AWS, with infrastructure spanning containerised services, serverless functions, managed databases, caching layers, and CDN capabilities. The role is hybrid based in Manchester, with a salary of £70k DOE.

last updated 30 week of 2026