Senior Software Engineer - MVS in Leeds

Senior Software Engineer (.NET / AWS / DOCKER)

📍 Leeds, Manchester or Bruntingthorpe (Hybrid X2 A Week)

Help Transform a Business Processing 200,000+ Vehicles Every Year

Manheim Vehicle Services (MVS), part of Cox Automotive Europe, is on an ambitious engineering transformation journey.

We're modernising a large-scale legacy .NET platform into a cloud-native ecosystem built on AWS, modern .NET, event-driven architecture and AI-enabled engineering practices. Our systems support one of the UK's largest vehicle preparation and storage operations, processing more than 200,000 vehicles annually for manufacturers, finance providers and rental businesses.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our technology platform while helping define how modern software engineering and AI-assisted development are applied across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll work within a collaborative engineering team to:

• Design, build and deploy scalable applications using modern .NET technologies.
• Help migrate a legacy .NET Framework monolith into AWS-native services and microservices.
• Develop robust APIs and event-driven solutions.
• Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
• Champion engineering excellence through automated testing, CI/CD and modern development practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve delivery speed, quality and consistency.
• Take ownership from design through to production support and continuous improvement.

Our Technology Stack

You'll have the opportunity to work with:

AWS ¦ .NET ¦ Docker ¦ ECS ¦ Lambda ¦ Terraform ¦ SQL Server ¦ PostgreSQL ¦ DynamoDB ¦ SNS/SQS ¦ EventBridge ¦ GitHub Actions ¦ React ¦ New Relic

What We're Looking For

We're keen to speak with engineers who have:

✅ Strong commercial experience with .NET / .NET Core & Docker

✅ Experience building applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred)

✅ Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)

✅ A passion for clean code, testing and engineering best practice

✅ Experience with APIs, distributed systems and event-driven architectures

✅ An understanding of CI/CD, Agile delivery, BDD and/or TDD

✅ The ability to balance technical quality with pragmatic delivery outcomes [

Why Join Us?

This is more than another Senior Developer role.

You'll be joining a team at a pivotal moment, helping modernise a business-critical platform while influencing engineering practices, cloud adoption and the use of AI within software delivery. You'll work on meaningful challenges, collaborate with talented engineers and have a genuine opportunity to shape the future direction of our technology landscape.

If you're excited by cloud transformation, modern software engineering and solving complex real-world problems at scale, we'd love to hear from you. 🚀

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Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive service organisation. We
provide dependable solutions that improve performance and profitability
throughout the vehicle lifecycle to manufacturers, fleets, and retailers.
Our businesses are organised around our customers’ core needs across vehicle
solutions, mobility, remarketing, funding, and retail.