Cathcart Technology
Senior Developer
Job Description
Salary: £60,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial Java development experience
- Experience delivering complex features end-to-end
- Commitment to clean, maintainable and well-tested code
- Experience with, or genuine interest in, TDD and XP practices
- Enjoyment of pairing, mentoring and sharing knowledge with other Engineers
- Comfort contributing to technical discussions and challenging existing approaches
- Experience working within collaborative Agile engineering teams
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to pick up new technologies
- Experience with cloud-native or serverless architectures is a bonus
- AWS experience is a bonus
- Experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code is a bonus
- Experience building scalable, secure platforms is a bonus
- Work hands-on on large-scale, business-critical systems
- Join a cross-functional Scrum team alongside Product Managers, UX Designers, Test Analysts and fellow Engineers
- Take ownership of features from initial idea through to production
- Mentor other Developers and share knowledge
- Help raise engineering standards across the team
- Challenge existing approaches and contribute ideas
- Influence technical direction and how the team works
- AWS
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- Java
- Serverless
- TDD
- XP
- UX UI Design
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Embedded
- Kubernetes
- React
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Vagrant
More:
We are a long-established technology business building modern platforms at the heart of a complex, highly regulated domain. We work in a remote-first setup with office visits around once per month in South Manchester, and we offer a salary of £60,000 - £70,000 plus bonus and an excellent benefits package. Our engineering culture is built around Agile and XP practices, with a strong focus on TDD, pairing, continuous integration and shared ownership. We also support communities of practice, regular knowledge sharing and dedicated innovation days focused on learning and experimentation. We offer clear progression, strong investment in learning and career development, and an inclusive, sociable engineering culture with regular team and company events.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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Cathcart Technology
Altrincham
IT
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£65,000
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 13% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks