Senior software engineer and team lead in Manchester

Our services help to make life less complicated – and expensive. We offer advice and financial services that help our customers overcome their troubles with debt once and for all. We’ll be there to help with things that can easily be forgotten about, answer any complicated questions and help our customers to plan for their future and reach their financial goals.

We’re a team of quick thinkers and relentless doers, with lots of ideas and plenty of passion to help improve the lives of others. If you share our passion for improving the lives of others through simple, affordable, jargon-free services, then you may have what it takes to join our team.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Lead who can be responsible for the technical leadership, management, and delivery of MoneyPlus’ back-office systems and customer-facing applications. The Lead Engineer balances hands-on technical oversight with leadership responsibilities, ensuring engineering work is aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

We believe our people truly are our greatest asset, that’s why we make sure our MoneyPlus People have the best experience, right from our first interaction all the way through their career with us.

• Family Friendly: Having a healthy work-life balance is important to us. We offer a minimum of 25 days holiday allowance per year.
• Discounts: Is there anything better than a few freebies? Whether it’s a catch up, a team trip out, or letting their hair down at one of our free annual events.
• Wellbeing: We provide a free cashback healthcare plan, as well as discounted gym and fitness deals. We also have a cycle to work scheme to encourage our people to make healthy life changes.
• Training: We want our people to be the best. We care about your development, which is why we provide professional training opportunities, so that you can be the best possible you.

Line management of software developers, including performance reviews, feedback, and career development.

Establishing and enforcing coding standards, development processes, and best practices.

Resource allocation and workload planning across engineering projects.

Ownership of architecture and technical decisions within the PHP Laravel, React, MySQL, and AWS stack.

Responsibility for system performance, security, resilience, and maintainability.

Oversight of monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.

DevOps & Infrastructure:

• Implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, reliable releases.
• Management of AWS environments, including EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and related services.
• Governance of deployment processes and environment configuration across development, staging, and production.
• Monitoring and optimisation of cloud infrastructure for scalability, cost-efficiency, and resilience.
• Oversight of deployments and release management processes.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory, security, and data protection requirements.
• Liaising with Operations and Compliance to ensure systems meet business and regulatory needs.
• Communicating technical decisions and risks to senior stakeholders.

Technical Skills:

• PHP (Laravel): Advanced knowledge of framework features and back-end application design.
• React: Ability to guide front-end architecture and maintain consistency across applications.
• MySQL: Skilled in schema design, optimisation, and data integrity management.
• AWS: Experienced in cloud infrastructure, including EKS, RDS, S3, and CI/CD.
• Security: Strong understanding of secure coding practices and data protection requirements.

Management Skills:

• Line Management: Experience managing developers, setting objectives, and reviewing performance.
• Coaching: Ability to mentor and develop engineers at different career stages.
• Resource Planning: Skilled in capacity planning, workload allocation, and recruitment.
• Process Discipline: Enforces coding standards, reviews, and development best practices.
• Delivery Management: Proven ability to deliver projects on time and to agreed standards.
• Risk Awareness: Proactive in identifying and mitigating delivery and technical risks.
• Accountability: Takes ownership of engineering outcomes and team performance.
• Pragmatism: Balances short-term delivery pressures with long-term system health.
• Quality Focus: Maintains standards for tested, reliable, and secure code.

At MoneyPlus we want to create a work environment that inspires you to excel. Through our combination of support, working as a team and our ambition to be better, we want to help you achieve and create a future with us.