222 Back End Development jobs in the United Kingdom

Software Engineering Manager

Our client is building secure, scalable, and user-focused digital platforms that make a real difference. Innovation, collaboration, and energy are at the heart of how we work. Our client is packed with talented engineers and creative thinkers who thrive in a supportive, ambitious environment.

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far-but we’re just getting started.

The Role

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager who can bring energy, passion, and excellent communication skills to inspire and guide our engineering teams.

This is a hands-off leadership role focused on people, culture, and delivery rather than day-to-day coding. You’ll empower engineers, influence technical direction, and partner with senior stakeholders to shape the future of our platforms.

The role is also a springboard into Head of Engineering, so if you’re ambitious, visionary, and eager to step into senior leadership, this is the perfect opportunity.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams.
li>Communicate with clarity and confidence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern practices (Agile, DevOps, automation, CI/CD).
• Collaborate with product and business leaders to align technology with strategic goals.
• Foster a culture of energy, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor senior engineers and tech leads to grow future leaders

About You

• A proven engineering leader from a tech-focused environment.
• Excellent communicator—able to engage and influence at every level.
< i>Hands-off but with a strong technical grounding to guide teams effectively.
• Energetic, positive, and passionate about empowering others.
• Experienced in modern software delivery approaches and agile environments.
• Ambitious, with a clear desire to step into a Head of Engineering role.

What We Offer

• A clear progression pathway into senior leadership.
• Hybrid working – flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
< i>Company pension scheme.
• Wellbeing support, perks, and career development resources.
• A creative, collaborative workplace with regular socials and a culture that thrives on energy and innovation.

 If you’re an energetic, inspiring leader with excellent communication skills who’s ready to take engineering teams (and your own career) to the next level, we’d love to hear from you.

Software Engineering Manager

Software Technical Lead

Rate: 500 - 600 a day

Location: Bristol hybrid one day every other week

Duration : 6 months initially

Clearance: SC Clearance required

You will join a global IT consultancy delivering digital transformation to a public sector body.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for actively supporting and guiding the team of seven through complex technical challenges.

The role involves breaking down complex tasks into manageable components, delegating effectively, and empowering team members to take ownership of their work.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clear technical direction and mentorship to the team.
• Applying sound judgment to make technical decisions.
• Driving improvements in system documentation, team processes, and overall developer experience.
• Delivering direct, constructive feedback to foster individual and team growth.
• Promoting a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance team culture.

Tech stack:

• Node.js, ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, npm, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, and PostgreSQL.
• The client is however open to strong candidates with adjacent skill sets. The technical stack is flexible for the right person.

Software Engineering Manager - 85,000

Title : Software Engineering Manager

Client : Software house

Location : London (Hybrid)

Salary : Up to 85,000

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this is an opportunity for a Software Engineering Manager with at least 1 year's experience as a Scrum Master to join a growing and highly technical team of software engineers in the graphics/scientific/engineering computing space.

You will have overall responsibility for overseeing the development roadmap and overall development activities, with scope to grow further within the business. There are currently 10 developers in your team.

Requirements:

• 2 years+ as an Engineering Manager
• C++ is your strongest language
• 1 year+ as Scrum Master

If you are interested learning more, please contact Max at Platform for more information or a confidential chat.

Software Engineering Manager

Our client is building secure, scalable, and user-focused digital platforms that make a real difference. Innovation, collaboration, and energy are at the heart of how we work. Our client is packed with talented engineers and creative thinkers who thrive in a supportive, ambitious environment.

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far-but we’re just getting started.

The Role

We’re looking for a Software Engineering Manager who can bring energy, passion, and excellent communication skills to inspire and guide our engineering teams.

This is a hands-off leadership role focused on people, culture, and delivery rather than day-to-day coding. You’ll empower engineers, influence technical direction, and partner with senior stakeholders to shape the future of our platforms.

The role is also a springboard into Head of Engineering, so if you’re ambitious, visionary, and eager to step into senior leadership, this is the perfect opportunity.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams.
li>Communicate with clarity and confidence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern practices (Agile, DevOps, automation, CI/CD).
• Collaborate with product and business leaders to align technology with strategic goals.
• Foster a culture of energy, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor senior engineers and tech leads to grow future leaders

About You

• A proven engineering leader from a tech-focused environment.
• Excellent communicator—able to engage and influence at every level.
< i>Hands-off but with a strong technical grounding to guide teams effectively.
• Energetic, positive, and passionate about empowering others.
• Experienced in modern software delivery approaches and agile environments.
• Ambitious, with a clear desire to step into a Head of Engineering role.

What We Offer

• A clear progression pathway into senior leadership.
• Hybrid working – flexibility to suit your lifestyle.
< i>Company pension scheme.
• Wellbeing support, perks, and career development resources.
• A creative, collaborative workplace with regular socials and a culture that thrives on energy and innovation.

 If you’re an energetic, inspiring leader with excellent communication skills who’s ready to take engineering teams (and your own career) to the next level, we’d love to hear from you.

Software Engineering Manager

Software Technical Lead

Rate: 500 - 600 a day

Location: Bristol hybrid one day every other week

Duration : 6 months initially

Clearance: SC Clearance required

You will join a global IT consultancy delivering digital transformation to a public sector body.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for actively supporting and guiding the team of seven through complex technical challenges.

The role involves breaking down complex tasks into manageable components, delegating effectively, and empowering team members to take ownership of their work.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing clear technical direction and mentorship to the team.
• Applying sound judgment to make technical decisions.
• Driving improvements in system documentation, team processes, and overall developer experience.
• Delivering direct, constructive feedback to foster individual and team growth.
• Promoting a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance team culture.

Tech stack:

• Node.js, ReactJS, JavaScript, TypeScript, npm, AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, and PostgreSQL.
• The client is however open to strong candidates with adjacent skill sets. The technical stack is flexible for the right person.

Software Engineering Manager - 85,000

Title : Software Engineering Manager

Client : Software house

Location : London (Hybrid)

Salary : Up to 85,000

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, this is an opportunity for a Software Engineering Manager with at least 1 year's experience as a Scrum Master to join a growing and highly technical team of software engineers in the graphics/scientific/engineering computing space.

You will have overall responsibility for overseeing the development roadmap and overall development activities, with scope to grow further within the business. There are currently 10 developers in your team.

Requirements:

• 2 years+ as an Engineering Manager
• C++ is your strongest language
• 1 year+ as Scrum Master

If you are interested learning more, please contact Max at Platform for more information or a confidential chat.

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

**Description**
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
American Express Global Card Network Platform authorizes and processes all of the company's customer card transactions. The Card Network platform is the critical back bone for all of American Express card transactions, and is a near real time low latency system that is always available and highly resilient, processing transactions from around the world 24x7, 365 days a year. American Express is making strategic investments in new card network products and platforms to allow the company to meet its ambitious global growth agenda.
**How will you make an impact in this role?**
As our Director of Engineering, you will join our global technology team that has embarked on building a highly available and scalable distributed systems on the cloud to support the company's long-term strategy and vision. You will lead a team of engineers across new/emerging concepts in a way that inspires them to do their best work and continue to grow and develop within the company. Our leaders work with distributed teams in a highly dynamic environment collaborating with product and technology leaders, and engineers who are passionate about our journey to build and deliver technology-powered solutions that our customers love and that works for our business.
Your primary responsibility is to lead the development of our next generation distributed platform, aligning resources and delivery with business growth and diversification, while significantly improving service quality and cost-effectiveness. We expect the individual to be innovative and energetic with strong communications and collaboration skills.
**Key Initiatives:**
+ Migrate partners to process real-time transaction through the Payment Network using Single Message rails
+ Develop best-in-class delivery engine with optimal throughput and quality releases
+ Maximize productivity of engineering teams with automation and increase predictability
+ High Availability, Resiliency and Performance Engineering on Cloud
**Roles and Responsibilities:**
+ You will be responsible for building capabilities of a distributed transaction processing infrastructure and payment processing business logic by leveraging that platform. Leading and engaging teams that build/deploy high throughput systems within a fast paced, agile environment while understanding and handling competing priorities.
+ Hands-on collaboration with business and technology leaders, stakeholders, product owners, Architects, and Engineers to define, develop, test and validate technical solutions to help drive customer-first product roadmap enabling business outcomes. Contribute to code review and analysis/design of business needs and user stories
+ Attract, retain, and grow diverse top engineering talent, providing guidance, career development and mentorship to team members maintaining a culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, retention of key colleagues, development, and high performance.
+ You will constantly pursue and learn industry leading/innovative solutions. Build high awareness of open-source technologies and communities that enable high volume low latency systems.
+ Lead a culture of innovation and experimentation, support full software development lifecycle that incorporates the best of technology approaches and delivery methodologies.
+ Engage with developers in day-to-day design and coding activities to execute product and strategy roadmaps. Stepping into code where and if needed and be a hands-on leader
+ Ensure on time product releases that are of high quality, enabling the core vision of next generation card processing systems.
+ Promote a fun and high engagement culture, with a results orientated focus. Hire, mentor, motivate and retain the best talent.
+ Collaborate with peer technology and product teams across different locations
**Qualifications**
+ You have Computer Science degree, or equivalent with at-least 10 years of relevant work experience.
+ Have built and delivered large scale enterprise systems/products and have extensive hands-on experience. Preferably delivered and supported products as Cloud hosted services.
+ Experience building highly available and low latency distributed systems. Experience building systems as service-oriented architecture and/or micro-services architecture.
+ Keen awareness of concerns in a massively distributed systems and effective solutions.
+ Experience in Linux cloud (Kubernetes) environment supporting applications built using language like Java, Go, Node.js and NoSQL databases like Couchbase, Cassandra, Redis.
+ Experience attracting, hiring and retaining a diverse high-performing engineering talent.
+ Have experience leading engineering teams and in agile methodologies, have enabled DevOps mindset, processes and tools
+ Ability to learn and deep dive into new technology and business domains, question status quo and think outside of the box.
+ Excellent judgment and constant pursuit of higher standards, a passion to build and nurture high efficiency teams.
+ Have excellent written and verbal communications skills. Create and deliver effective presentations to Senior Leadership.
+ Ability to negotiate and influence stakeholders
+ Knowledge of Payment Network Authorization, Acquiring & Issuing platforms and business processes is a plus
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
**Qualifications**
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
+ Competitive base salaries
+ Bonus incentives
+ Support for financial-well-being and retirement
+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
+ Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
+ Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
+ Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
+ Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
+ Career development and training opportunities
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** United Kingdom-West Sussex-Burgess Hill
**Other Locations:** United Kingdom-London-London
**Schedule** Full-time
**Req ID:**

**Job Requisition ID #**
25WD91958
**Position Overview**
At Autodesk, we're reimagining what's possible. As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, we help people everywhere imagine, design, and create a better world. Right now, we're transforming how our products work by moving to the cloud-opening up exciting opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and impact.
What sets us apart isn't just our technology, but our culture. At Autodesk, you'll find an inclusive, supportive environment where early-career talent can grow, be creative, and make real impact. It's one of the reasons we've been consistently recognized by **Fortune, Forbes, and Glassdoor as a top place to work** .
Over three months in our Summer 2026 Internship Programme, you'll gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and opportunities to grow your engineering and domain expertise-while making real contributions to Autodesk's design, manufacturing and construction technologies.
Alongside technical growth, you'll develop soft skills and build connections with other interns-locally in your office, regionally across EMEA, and globally-through programs designed just for interns.
You'll work with a team of Geometry Modelling domain experts in a dynamic, supportive environment, collaborating on the definition and development of core technologies. Along the way, you'll gain exposure to our exciting tech stack, which includes BREP modelling, mesh modelling, C++20, Python, JavaScript and DevOps tools.
**Responsibilities**
+ Prototype, implement, and maintain production desktop software components and cloud services.
+ Collaborate with experienced engineers to design, plan, develop, refactor, test, deliver, and maintain complex features across desktop, cloud and web components.
+ Participate actively in Agile development using LEAN methodology as a member of a scrum team.
+ Gain hands-on experience with commercial development processes used at Autodesk.
**Minimum Qualifications**
+ Currently enrolled as an active student in a degree program.
+ Predicted First or Upper Second Class degree in STEM Field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics)
+ Please include your estimated graduation year and month in your application.
**The Ideal Candidate**
+ Interest in design, 3D modelling or geometry.
+ Experience with C++ or a related programming language.
Learn More
**About Autodesk**
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - it's at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you're an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
**Salary transparency**
Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate's experience, educational level, and geographic location.
**Diversity & Belonging**
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: