Contract software developer Work, Jobs in Manchester (with Salaries)

Data Engineer
Ripjar —Manchester
- Full-time
- Remote
- Computer Science
- Linux
- Python
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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Senior Account Executive - AI Software Sales & professional services
MaxAccelerate —Manchester
- Full-time
- Remote
- Oracle
- Sales
- Salesforce
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Head of Customer Service
PC Group —Blackburn
- Temporary
- Hybrid work
- Management
- APIs
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Project Manager
Watkin Jones —Manchester
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- Hotel
- First Aid Certification
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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2d
Security Engineer
Barclays —Knutsford
- Azure
- Java
- AWS
12d
Principal Water Quality Scientist/ Modeller
AECOM —Manchester
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Master's degree
- Project management
- Scripting
Senior Engineer(Asset)
Amey Ltd —Manchester
- Part-time
- Maintenance
- Master's degree
- Project management
- Annual leave
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Principal Civil Infrastructure Engineer (Development)
WSP —Manchester
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Construction
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Senior Health & Safety Consultant | Bolton, UK
TSA Riley —Bolton
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Travel
- Organisational skills
11d
Experienced Civil Engineer
Clancy Consulting —Manchester
- AutoCAD
- Engineering
- Master's degree
Engineering Manager - Power Systems Design
RINA —Manchester
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Engineering
- English
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Amentum —Risley
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- CAD
- Engineering
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
Quantity Surveyor
MCR Property Group Ltd —Manchester
- £50,000 - £60,000 a year
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer literacy
- Construction
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Quantity Surveyor - Residential Construction
MCR Property Group Ltd —Manchester
- £45,000 - £55,000 a year
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer literacy
- Construction
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Principal Fire Engineer
Amentum —Risley
- Full-time
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
Senior Fire Engineer
Amentum —Risley
- Full-time
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
Senior Bridges Engineer (Design)
Amey Ltd —Manchester
- Part-time
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Leadership
- Annual leave
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Senior Mechanical Engineer
Amentum —Risley
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- CAD
- Engineering
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
Senior Electrical Engineer
Amentum —Risley
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
4d
Flood and Coast Director
Tony Gee and Partners —Manchester
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Doctoral degree
- Engineering
- Master's degree
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Data Engineer

Ripjar -
Manchester

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Job details

Full-time

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

Jira
Node.js
HDFS
Computer Science
Kubernetes
Ansible
Spark
MongoDB
HBase
Confluence
Distributed systems
Terraform
GitHub
Linux
Python
Debugging
Hadoop

Full job description

About Ripjar

Ripjar was founded by veterans of GCHQ to bring national security-grade intelligence tools to the fight against financial crime. Financial crime funds human trafficking, terrorism, corruption and sanctions evasion on a global scale, and the organisations on the front line need technology built to match the threat.

Today, Ripjar's AI-native software and data fusion products are used by governments, the world's largest banks, and global enterprises to automate the detection, investigation and monitoring of serious financial crime. Every day, hundreds of customers and thousands of daily active users rely on the platform to screen hundreds of millions of names for risk in real time, prevent money laundering and stop terrorist financing.

If you want your work to matter, this is where it happens.

We are a remote first team, with a head office based in Cheltenham. This position is open to UK wide candidates. If you are based near Cheltenham, you are more than welcome to work from our office at any time.

About the Role

We see a Data Engineer as a software engineer who specialises in distributed data systems. You’ll join the Data Engineering team, whose prime responsibility is the development and operation of the Data Collection Hub, a platform that ingests data from many sources, processes/enriches it, and distributes it to multiple downstream systems.

We’re looking for someone with 2+ years of industry experience building and operating production software who enjoys working across data pipelines, distributed systems, and operational reliability.

What you’ll do

Engineer distributed ingestion services that reliably pull data from diverse sources, handle messy real-world edge cases, and deliver clean, well-structured outputs to multiple downstream products.
Build high-throughput processing components (batch and/or near-real-time) with a focus on performance, scalability, and predictable cost, using strong profiling and measurement practices.
Design and evolve data contracts (schemas, validation rules, versioning, backward compatibility) so downstream teams can build with confidence.
Own production quality: write maintainable code, strong unit/integration tests, and add the observability you need (metrics/logs/tracing) to diagnose issues quickly.
Improve platform reliability by hardening pipelines against partial failures, retries, rate limits, data drift, and infrastructure issues—then codify those learnings into better tooling and guardrails.
Contribute to CI/CD and developer experience: faster builds, better test signal, safer releases, and automated operational checks.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident retrospectives, and iterative delivery—making pragmatic trade-offs and documenting them clearly.

Technology Stack

Languages: Predominantly Python and Node.js
Distributed/data platforms: HDFS, HBase, Spark, plus increasing use of Kubernetes and cloud services
Storage/search: MongoDB, OpenSearch
Orchestration: Airflow, Dagster, NiFi
Tooling: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Rundeck, Jira, Confluence
Deployment/config: Ansible (physical), Terraform / Argo CD / Helm (Kubernetes)
Development environment: MacBook (typical)

Requirements

Essential:

2+ years building and operating production software systems
Fluency in at least one programming language (Python/Node.js a plus)
Experience debugging moderately complex systems and improving reliability/performance
Strong fundamentals: data structures, testing, version control, Linux basics

Nice to have:

Spark/PySpark experience
Hadoop ecosystem exposure (HDFS/HBase)
Workflow orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/NiFi)
Search/indexing (OpenSearch, MongoDB)
Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code
Degree in Computer Science or numerical degree

Benefits

Competitive salary DOE

25 days annual leave + your birthday off, in addition to bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service.
Remote working
Private Family Healthcare.
35 hour working week.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Company contributions to your pension.
Pension salary sacrifice.
Enhanced maternity/paternity pay.
The latest tech including a top of the range MacBook Pro.

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contract software developer jobs in manchester

Data Engineer

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Project Manager

Security Engineer

Principal Water Quality Scientist/ Modeller

Senior Engineer(Asset)

Principal Civil Infrastructure Engineer (Development)

Senior Health & Safety Consultant | Bolton, UK

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Engineering Manager - Power Systems Design

Principal Mechanical Engineer

Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor - Residential Construction

Principal Fire Engineer

Senior Fire Engineer

Senior Bridges Engineer (Design)

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

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