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Naimuri — Senior Software Engineer
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Salford Quays (with hybrid working options) Employment Type: Permanent, Full-Time
About Us
We’re celebrating our tenth anniversary, growing from a modest tech start-up into a thriving community of 180+ people, mainly based in Salford, Greater Manchester. We also have offices in Cheltenham, London, Portsmouth, and Lincoln.
Our name, “Naimuri”, originates from the fusion of two Japanese words, “not” and “overburden”, reflecting our core principle: removing undue pressure in technology, processes, and culture. This philosophy guides our mission to make the UK a safer place.
We operate in an Agile-first environment where collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement define our ethos:
- A Culture of Enablement: Decisions are empowered, and blockers are removed.
- Focus on Quality: We prioritise well-written, maintainable code as the “definitive example.”
- Active Collaboration: Work closely with Platform Engineers, Delivery Leads, and Product Owners, managing Kubernetes infrastructure and automated pipelines (GitLab).
Our projects span weeks to 5+ years, exemplifying diverse challenges:
- Building a data analytics tool using Neo4J graph databases.
- A DevOps platform supporting 3,000 users.
- Digital forensic data processing for search and insights.
- A search and reporting system with an Elasticsearch backend.
- A custom workflow tool with a React/TS front-end.
- AI assurance capabilities.
- Data pipeline orchestration and LLM performance metrics design.
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About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll lead large-scale feature development, driving ownership from initial design to production. This isn’t just about your code—it’s about elevating the entire team.
Your impact will cover:
- Own the Solution: Drive end-to-end development of complex features autonomously.
- SME Champion: Lead technical debates, resolve critical defects, and serve as the primary resource for your team and business.
- Enable Your Team:
- Improve team efficiency.
- Onboard new members.
- Break down knowledge silos.
- Mentor & Grow: Lead by example, mentor engineers, and refine quality and documentation standards.
- Shape the Bigger Picture:
- Influence technical roadmaps.
- Challenge design choices.
- Collaborate with customers to identify and scope opportunities.
Ideal for you if…
- You thrive in owning end-to-end technical challenges.
- You decompose ambiguity into actionable solutions.
- You challenge the status quo, refining processes and efficiency.
- You consider scalability, security, performance, and cost in designs.
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Less suited for…
- Persona who favour strict task queuing without strategic oversight.
- Those uninterested in mentoring, team leadership, or confronting novel challenges.
Pay and Benefits
Competitive pay reflects industry standards by location and experience. We assess seniority during interviews.
Working Hours:
- Standard week: 37.5 hours, with flexible timing.
- 3 days/week office-based (average) in Salford Quays office (open 07:30–18:00). Travel may occur for projects or customer sites.
Benefits include:
- Flexible/hybrid working.
- Performance bonus.
- Company bonus.
- Pension match (1.5x up to 10.5%).
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
- AXA group 1 medical cover.
- Holiday purchase scheme (5 extra days).
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Car benefit scheme.
Recruitment Process
We foster an inclusive, supportive environment, encouraging applications from diverse backgrounds. Neurodiversity and accessibility requirements will be facilitated.
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