Backend Engineer

• Contribute to the development of The Grid platform
• Collaborate with engineers on various projects
• Solve complex problems in robotics and software engineering
• Work on manufacturing execution systems and internal tooling

Haskell Engineer

Full-stack Engineer

• Define and lead the execution of technology strategies aligned with market needs in the Life, Retirement, and Pensions sector.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with CTOs and senior stakeholders to co-develop innovative solutions.
• Establish and refine market propositions by continuously assessing technological advancements and client feedback.
• Lead large-scale technology transformation projects focused on operational efficiency and compliance.
• Foster strategic alliances with key technology players to expand solution offerings and market reach.
• Drive business development initiatives by identifying new opportunities and presenting compelling business cases.
• Manage cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact technology solutions and thought leadership.
• Promote a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team and client engagements.

Tech Strategy & Innovation Lead – Life Insurance and Retirement

Software Engineer

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain various statistical and machine learning models
• Perform data cleaning and pre-processing tasks
• Monitor model performance in real-time to identify issues
• Advise key stakeholders on functional areas of impact and alignment
• Collaborate with other departments for business-aligned support

Vice President, Data Model Developer

• Lead on team practices, notably implementing lean/kanban across all teams, and help migrate those teams not currently in lean/kanban mode
• Work with technical team leads on language, database and tooling decisions
• Manage the day to day: 1:1s, blockers and delivery rhythm
• Ensure all team leads are delivering against learning objectives, and run Show and Tells
• Monitor delivery velocity across all squads and report to the CTO
• Build and maintain automated test coverage, and set QA standards across the team
• Provide SDET-level input into test architecture and automation frameworks
• Own code review culture: standards, consistency and feedback quality
• Work in tandem with the CTO to identify, pilot and roll out AI developer tooling across the team

Engineering Lead

• Support and maintain critical interfaces between real-time operational systems and business applications.
• Ensure high levels of system availability, reliability, and performance.
• Provide technical expertise, support incident resolution, and collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance, and integrity of the CSS Interfaces suite, ensuring reliable 24/7 service.
• Provide technical support to Operational Support Engineers and key business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Cyber Security teams to manage interface-related changes, developments, and vulnerabilities.
• Support Control Centre operations, including fault resolution, maintenance activities, and system enhancements.
• Maintain business-critical systems, including system monitoring, upgrades, repairs, access control, and documentation.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, backup plans, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor system performance and implement proactive measures to improve reliability.
• Liaise with internal customers and third-party support providers to resolve issues and support service delivery.
• Contribute to reporting and data analysis activities using system data, scripts, and reporting tools.
• Support user training and knowledge sharing across the business.

Senior Interface Engineer

• Own end-to-end quality outcomes across key retail platforms including POS and Self-Checkout, ensuring reliability, performance, security and resilience across transaction flows.
• Shape quality strategy and engineering standards for retail technology solutions, influencing architecture, automation frameworks and long-term platform direction.
• Drive operational excellence by improving testing practices, supporting incident investigation, reducing repeat failures and enhancing platform stability.
• Lead and mentor engineers through quality best practice, code reviews, automation excellence and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Champion DevOps and continuous testing practices, supporting automated delivery pipelines, production releases and out-of-hours platform support when required.

Staff Software Engineer – Self Checkouts

• Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable, and high-performance authentication and identity services used by millions of customers and colleagues.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Identity Platform, balancing customer experience, security, performance, and developer usability.
• Develop resilient APIs and backend services that enable secure authentication, authorisation, and identity management capabilities across the organisation.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across teams.
• Actively participate in code reviews, technical discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Senior Software Engineer – Personalisation

• Build and evolve AI-powered services using Python, supporting highly scalable customer-facing experiences.
• Design and implement evaluation frameworks that measure and improve the quality of AI and LLM-powered systems.
• Drive continuous improvement of AI Stylist through structured evaluation, experimentation, and data-driven insights.
• Apply advanced techniques such as LLM-as-a-Judge and other evaluation methodologies to assess recommendation and response quality.
• Work with non-deterministic AI systems, identifying opportunities to improve relevance, consistency, and customer outcomes.
• Integrate AI services into broader digital platforms, APIs, and recommendation ecosystems.

Senior Software Engineer – Recommendation Experiences

• Design, build, and evolve backend services that power pricing and promotions across multiple customer channels.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs using Java/Kotlin for reliable pricing calculations and promotions management.
• Contribute to Kafka-based event-driven architectures for high-volume price publishing and promotional capabilities.
• Design and evolve GraphQL APIs ensuring consistency, performance, governance, and exceptional developer experience.
• Build resilient, low-latency solutions using MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and distributed data architectures.
• Own complex backend features across the pricing and promotions lifecycle from design through deployment and operational support.

Senior Software Engineer – Price Domain

• Design, build, and evolve order management capabilities that support seamless customer fulfilment journeys across checkout, fulfilment, returns, amendments, and cancellations.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Order Management platform, driving improvements in architecture, integration patterns, automation, reliability, and security.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, promoting best practices across teams.
• Drive operational excellence by designing systems with observability, monitoring, resilience, and supportability at their core.
• Use tools such as Dynatrace to improve platform visibility, monitoring, and alerting capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering teams, and Fulfilment stakeholders to solve complex business challenges and accelerate delivery outcomes.
• Support and mentor engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, code reviews, and technical guidance.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working across the wider organisation.

Senior Software Engineer – Order Fulfilment

• Design, build, and evolve payment services and capabilities that enable seamless customer transactions across M&S digital platforms.
• Develop resilient backend services, APIs, and integrations that support millions of customer payment journeys every year.
• Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Help shape the technical direction of the Payments platform, balancing performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost through modern engineering practices.
• Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across engineering teams.
• Drive operational excellence by designing systems with observability, monitoring, resilience, and supportability at their core.
• Utilise tools such as Dynatrace to improve platform visibility, monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.

Senior Software Engineer – Payment Capabilities

• **Key Responsibilities**These may change with the needs of the business, but the main areas are:
• **Technical Skills**• Design solutions to complex features and write the design documentation that other engineers build from.
• Hold the technical quality bar for your team through code review, pairing and the example you set.
• Spot gaps in testing, security or performance across your team's work, and fix them or make the case for fixing them.
• Work within the technical direction and standards set by your Lead Engineer and feedback into them where you see a better approach.
• Watch for scaling, reliability and operability problems before they cause incidents and help keep the team's work observable and secure.
• **Delivery**• Lead the delivery of large features, involving other engineers.
• Turn vague or unclear requirements into concrete engineering work the team can pick up.
• Keep the team's delivery standards up, and step in when they slip rather than waiting to be asked.
• Make sound decisions when the information is incomplete and keep work moving when requirements change or things get blocked.
• **Impact**• Make a real difference to your team's output, quality and technical ability.
• Help junior and mid engineers get better through pairing, honest feedback and giving them work that stretches them.
• Contribute to department-wide engineering standards and documentation.
• Help shape your team's goals and technical plans and connect the work back to what the business is trying to achieve.
• Take part in hiring, running technical interviews and giving well-reasoned assessments of candidates.
• **Communication**• Explain technical decisions clearly to both engineers and people without a technical background.
• Write things down well, such as designs, technical documentation and runbooks that other people can pick up and use.
• Help the team reach agreement on hard or contested technical questions.
• Give clear, specific and kind feedback in code reviews.
• Inform your Engineering Team Lead promptly when a piece of work is failing behind, rather than letting it surface late.
• **AI and Innovation **• Explore new tools, including AI, and help bring the genuinely useful tools into your team’s day-to-day work while being honest about where they fall short.
• Follow the team's agreed approach to AI-assisted work so that what gets produced stays consistent, secure and good quality.
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude in your day-to-day development, moving faster while keeping design quality, security and maintainability high.

Senior Engineer

• **Key Responsibilities**These may change with the needs of the business, but the main areas are:
• **Technical Direction**• Own the long-term technical strategy for a core domain of the platform and drive the architectural work needed to get there, not just the next feature.
• Produce the designs and reference architectures that other engineers build from with confidence and without rework.
• Set and own the technical standards for your domain and lead Senior Engineers in applying them consistently.
• Liaise with the Principal Engineers to keep your domain’s technical strategy, tooling and patterns aligned with the wider technical direction.
• Anticipate scaling, resilience, security and operability risks before they become incidents and drive best practice such as observability, security-by-design and robust testing.
• Track where the industry is heading and judge, proactively, what is worth bringing into our stack.
• **Delivery**• Own delivery outcomes for large, complex pieces of work and keeping momentum through ambiguity and changing requirements.
• Influence roadmap prioritisation based on technical risk, complexity and strategic value, not just delivery execution.
• Identify systemic delivery problems and drive structural fixes, rather than working around them.
• Make sound, defensible decisions with incomplete information and model the delivery discipline you expect of others.
• **Impact**• Raise the technical capability of Senior Engineers working within your domain through design leadership, review and pairing.
• Build standards, patterns and a culture of technical excellence that persist and compound after any single project ends.
• Have visible, structural impact beyond your immediate team, influencing how other teams work or what they build.
• Work with Engineering Management on department-level strategy and standards and shape the engineering hiring bar and team culture.
• **Communication and Influence**• Communicate technical strategy clearly to engineers, product, and business stakeholders.
• Produce written work such as design documentation, RFCs and proposals that shifts how the organisation thinks and drives alignment across teams.
• Influence other teams and resolve significant disagreements through reasoning and trust, without needing to escalate.
• Build an external technical profile through conferences, open source, or industry community, in ways that raise our reputation and help us attract talent.
• Encourage open technical discussion and build active engineering communities across our main communication channels.
• **AI and Innovation**• Trial new tools and technologies, including AI and embed the ones that help into how the team works day to day, while being honest about their limits.
• Set the standards for how the team uses AI, codifying our patterns and guardrails into the tooling itself so that AI-assisted work stays consistent, secure and high quality as it scales.
• Lead by example in day-to-day development with AI coding tools such as Claude, using them to move faster while holding the bar on design quality, security and maintainability.

Lead Engineer

• Write, test, and maintain code as part of a cross-functional delivery team
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and daily stand-ups
• Work closely with senior engineers to learn best practices in software design, testing, and deployment
• Help troubleshoot and resolve bugs and technical issues
• Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, communicating progress and gathering feedback throughout delivery
• Contribute to technical documentation
• Continuously build your skills through on-the-job learning, mentoring, and training

Software Engineer, Graduate

• Build the core backend services: Design, implement, test, and operate first services for context ingestion and storage
• Create a scalable SaaS foundation: Define and build architecture for a multi-tenant service
• Power agent-facing retrieval workflows: Build APIs and service interfaces for AI agents
• Work across product and infrastructure: Make tradeoffs between fast experimentation and long-term reliability
• Operate what you build: Instrument services with metrics and improve reliability
• Contribute to technical direction: Shape architecture and engineering practices for a new product area
• Effective communication: Work in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment
• Ownership and impact: Take full ownership of AI solutions ensuring they are scalable and aligned with real user workflows.

Staff Backend Engineer – Grafana

iOS Engineer

• Help build shopping experiences that customers love, whether through personalised member experiences, inspiring discovery journeys, or engaging browsing experiences.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and Engineers to deliver high-quality mobile experiences.
• Contribute to the next generation of fashion shopping experiences by using personalisation, AI-powered experiences, and exceptional mobile design.
• Build and maintain native iOS features using modern Apple technologies throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to understand customer needs and deliver impactful solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while continuously improving your technical skills.

• Collaboration with physicists, opto-mechanical, mechanical, electrical and software engineers to lead the development of optical systems for quantum sensing and computing
• From source to atom: Lead and execute the process from requirements and design to assembly and test for optical systems spanning laser distribution, modulation, delivery and imaging.
• Work at the component level up through to large sub-systems containing hundreds of precisely aligned optical elements.
• Optimise, analyse and tolerance optical designs using computational methods.
• Use simulation tools to guide design decisions and communicate findings to project leaders both verbally and through design documentation.
• Lead the design review process for optical systems.
• Validate and characterise optical components and systems for performance, reliability, and stability by formulating and executing structured test plans.

Senior Optical Engineer

• Work on both sides of the API developing the client SDK and contributing to the migration of our server technology.
• Ensure that Element's next generation of clients and servers are fast, reliable and a joy to use.
• Work with our passionate and engaged open-source community.

Rust Engineer

• Provide senior engineering leadership across major infrastructure programmes and projects
• Act as the accountable engineering authority for scope definition, design assurance and engineering risk management
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, automation and civil engineering disciplines
• Chair engineering governance forums including design reviews, technical approvals and assurance gateways
• Drive technically robust, cost-effective and low-carbon engineering solutions
• Lead technical assurance across optioneering, outline design, early contractor involvement, detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover
• Ensure compliance with Anglian Water engineering standards, Construction Design and Management regulations, process safety requirements and operational expectations
• Champion standardisation, value engineering, design efficiency and digital engineering across major projects
• Develop engineering capability across Anglian Water, partners and suppliers, including mentoring graduates, apprentices and emerging technical talent
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and emergency engineering responses where required

• Design, build, and operate production backend services using Rust and other strongly engineered backend technologies.
• Own backend components from design through deployment, observability, incident learning, and ongoing maintenance.
• Modernize existing systems incrementally, reducing technical debt while protecting reliability and business continuity.
• Develop clean, maintainable, production-grade code with strong attention to correctness, testability, performance, and operational behavior.
• Debug complex production and pre-production issues across services, data flows, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines.
• Define practical service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns that support long-term maintainability.
• Improve reliability, observability, monitoring, alerting, and deployment workflows for backend systems.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to accelerate exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation while remaining accountable for final quality.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, infrastructure, security, and operations partners to deliver complete and reliable product capabilities.
• Evaluate architectural options and communicate trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, documentation, and engineering practices that raise the quality of the team.
• Identify risks, simplify complex technical problems, and make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous situations.

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Haskell Engineer

Tech Strategy & Innovation Lead – Life Insurance and Retirement

Vice President, Data Model Developer

Engineering Lead

Senior Interface Engineer

Staff Software Engineer – Self Checkouts

Senior Software Engineer – Personalisation

Senior Software Engineer – Recommendation Experiences

Senior Software Engineer – Price Domain

Senior Software Engineer – Order Fulfilment

Senior Software Engineer – Payment Capabilities

Senior Engineer

Lead Engineer

Software Engineer, Graduate

Staff Backend Engineer – Grafana

iOS Engineer

Senior Optical Engineer

Rust Engineer

Engineering Lead

Senior Backend Engineer, Rust