Senior Software Engineer
Talent · Manchester Area, United Kingdom
About this role
The Senior Software Engineer will join a development team of 5-6 people to build and scale a recently launched data and automation platform. The role focuses on a TypeScript stack with a strong backend emphasis, developing systems that process high volumes of real-time data into insights and automated workflows. Key responsibilities include building platform capabilities using Node.js, React/Next.js, and MongoDB, and designing reliable HTTP APIs. The engineer will have significant scope to influence architecture, technical decisions, and engineering standards during greenfield development. The position also involves managing production systems, including incident diagnosis and participating in an on-call rota.
Skills & technologies
Must have
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- Next.js
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Hono
- AWS Fargate
- AWS Lambda
Nice to have
- IoT
- telemetry
- time-series systems
- LoRaWAN
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Senior Software Engineer — TypeScript / Node.js
Location: Swinton, Manchester — hybrid, Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office
Salary: £60,000–£80,000 DOE + bonus + equity
Permanent
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a UK technology business building IoT monitoring and data platforms used by major organisations across healthcare, food, energy and industrial environments.
You’ll join a development team of around 5–6 people, helping build and scale a recently launched data and automation platform. The work is predominantly greenfield, with significant scope to influence architecture, own technical decisions and shape engineering standards.
The role
You’ll work across a TypeScript stack, with a strong backend focus, developing systems that turn high volumes of real-time data into useful insights, alerts and automated workflows.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Building platform capabilities using TypeScript, Node.js and React/Next.js.
- Designing and operating reliable HTTP APIs.
- Developing high-volume, time-series data ingestion, including processing, storage and retention.
- Designing MongoDB schemas, indexes and aggregation pipelines, and improving query performance.
- Using Redis for caching, queueing or rate limiting.
- Contributing to architecture, technical documentation and engineering standards.
- Owning features through development, testing, deployment and production support.
- Supporting the existing platform as the business transitions to its next-generation product.
- Diagnosing production incidents and participating in an on-call rota.
What we’re looking for
- Substantial commercial TypeScript experience across backend and frontend development.
- Strong Node.js experience, including designing and maintaining production APIs.
- Experience with high-volume, real-time or event-driven systems.
- Experience working with large datasets, ideally 100 million+ datapoints.
- Practical MongoDB experience covering schema design, indexing, aggregation and performance troubleshooting.
- Commercial experience with Redis.
- Solid React/Next.js experience.
- Evidence of owning production systems, including reliability, monitoring and incident resolution.
- Confidence making technical decisions and explaining trade-offs within a small team.
Experience with IoT, telemetry, time-series systems or LoRaWAN would be advantageous.
Technology
TypeScript · Node.js · Next.js · Hono · MongoDB · Redis · AWS Fargate · AWS Lambda
What’s on offer
- Salary up to £80,000, depending on experience.
- Bonus and equity.
- Predominantly greenfield development with meaningful technical ownership.
