Location: Manchester (Hybrid – typically one office day every two weeks)
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
At Shield Safety, we’re on a mission to help businesses protect people, reduce risk, and stay compliant through smart technology and expert consultancy. Our award-winning platform, RiskProof, is trusted by thousands of organisations, from independent operators to major brands, to manage health, safety, food safety, and fire safety more effectively.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing product and engineering team in Manchester. If you enjoy solving complex problems, building modern applications with Angular and .NET, and helping shape the technical direction of products that make a real-world impact, this role could be a great fit. You’ll play a key role in designing and developing features for RiskProof, collaborating with a passionate team and helping mentor other developers as we continue to scale our platform.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing high-quality software and application solutions as part of a fast-moving, collaborative development team.
You will apply modern software development and quality assurance practices to improve software quality, delivery speed, efficiency, and productivity. As a senior member of the team, you’ll also contribute to solution design, story refinement, technical decision-making, and mentoring colleagues. You will work on both enhancing our existing online health and safety systems and building new bespoke projects.
A significant part of the role involves developing RiskProof, our responsive Single Page Application, using modern front-end technologies including Angular, HTML5, NativeScript, and TypeScript, supported by C# .NET APIs hosted on Azure.
RiskProof is Shield Safety’s award-winning digital safety management platform designed to help organisations identify, manage, and reduce operational risk. The platform provides real-time insights, modular safety management tools, and streamlined compliance processes, helping businesses move from reactive compliance to proactive safety management. RiskProof is widely used across industries including hospitality, retail, and leisure, where operational consistency and compliance are critical.
- Real-Time Insights
A dynamic dashboard provides live visibility of safety performance and compliance across operations. -
Modular Design
Businesses can customise the platform to suit their operational risk management requirements. -
Advanced Audit Tools
Features such as Non-Conformance Reports and severity-based prioritisation help organisations address safety issues quickly. -
User-Friendly Experience
Designed to simplify safety checks and documentation, reducing administrative overhead for teams. -
Expert Support
Backed by Shield Safety’s consultancy expertise to ensure organisations stay compliant with evolving regulations.
You’ll be working with a modern technology stack including:
Front-End
Angular
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS
Mobile
Back-End
C#
.NET 8 / .NET Framework
Entity Framework Core
LINQ
Data
DevOps & Infrastructure
Azure DevOps
Azure services
Bicep templates
CI/CD pipelines
Testing
Contributing to development planning and technical design
Designing scalable and maintainable software solutions
Validating and refining designs based on feedback
Supporting architectural decisions and technical direction
Developing Angular pages and components
Front-end development using TypeScript
Building and extending C# middle-tier APIs
Working with SQL Server and data models
Managing build and deployment processes using Azure DevOps
Maintaining high coding standards, performance, and security
Supporting the evolution of RiskProof and related systems
Writing and maintaining unit tests
Reviewing and contributing to test plans
Occasionally executing testing activities where required
Ensuring high levels of reliability and code quality
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Mentoring and coaching other developers
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Contributing to story refinement and sprint planning
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Identifying and recommending technical improvements
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Collaborating closely with product, QA, and engineering colleagues
Shield Safety is one of the UK’s leading Environmental Health Consultancies. For over 20 years, we’ve helped businesses meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and protect people.
As a software-enabled services business, we combine expert consultancy with our award-winning digital platform RiskProof, giving organisations a smarter, more practical way to manage safety and compliance.
We support organisations across hospitality, retail, leisure, and other sectors, where real-world operational pressures demand solutions that are simple, reliable, and effective. Our clients range from independent operators to major brands including Tesco, ASDA, YO! Sushi, Radisson Hotels, and KFC, and we’re proud to maintain a 90% client retention rate. We’re also the first certification body for Safe to Trade, helping raise standards in food hygiene and allergen management. At Shield Safety, our mission is simple: make Every Day Safer.
Our culture is built on three core values that shape how we work every day.
- Passion
We care deeply about what we do. Our team brings energy, curiosity, and commitment to solving real-world safety challenges.
- Excellence
Our customers depend on us, so we hold ourselves to the highest standards. We constantly learn, innovate, and look for better ways to deliver value.
- People First
We put people at the centre of everything - our team, our clients, and the wider public. Collaboration, respect, and trust guide our work.
At Shield Safety, we combine meaningful work with a supportive and flexible environment. Our engineering team operates hybrid working, with most collaboration happening remotely and team members typically meeting in our Manchester office around once every two weeks.
We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, trusted, and able to be themselves.
Our benefits include:
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Competitive salary
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25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays (option to purchase up to 5 additional days)
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Birthday off
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Flexible working with hybrid and remote options
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Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing App
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Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
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Monthly one-to-one support with your manager
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Health Cash Plan for private healthcare and treatments
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Clear progression opportunities
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Ongoing training and development support
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A friendly, collaborative workplace (including office dogs)
We are proud to have a diverse workforce and we are committed to ensuring equality and inclusion at all levels within the business. It is imperative that we have a mix of talents, skills and experience within our teams and actively encourage diversity in order to meet these requirements. We value the diversified opinions when we make key decisions, generate new ideas or come up with solutions to challenges. We know that this is the best way to support our clients, and we feel that our workplace should mirror the demographic make-up of the population and of our client base.
As Shield Safety company continues to grow and expand, we welcome applications from everyone interested in joining our team, including applicants within underrepresented groups. Our recruitment process is being continually refined and evolved to ensure that all applicants are screened fairly and without discrimination.
Interested in joining us?
If you’re a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys building high-quality software, working with modern technologies, and contributing to meaningful products, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us continue building technology that makes Every Day Safer.
