Senior Software Engineer – Global E‑commerce & Mobility Platform

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Manchester team and help design, build and scale a high‑volume mobility and pre‑book e‑commerce platform that serves millions of travellers worldwide.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services for the core pre‑book e‑commerce platform.
• Own the full feature lifecycle from technical design and specification to deployment and optimisation.
• Architect distributed systems that handle high‑volume consumer traffic across global airport environments.
• Collaborate with international partners to design and integrate APIs that extend the platform ecosystem.
• Champion engineering best practices, including automated testing, TDD, BDD and CI/CD.
• Foster a blameless engineering culture, turning production incidents into learning opportunities.
• Contribute to technical strategy and mentor engineers across the team.

Required profile

• Practical, collaborative engineer passionate about system design and code quality.
• Enjoys solving real‑world problems at scale in a fast‑paced environment.
• Clear communicator with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Required skills

• Strong backend development experience with Scala (primary) and Java.
• Design and delivery of large‑scale distributed systems and micro‑services.
• Building and operating event‑driven architectures in production.
• Proficiency with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Deep understanding of automated build, test and deployment processes (TDD, BDD, CI/CD).