Software Engineer

At Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), technology underpins how millions of people move every day. We’re not just building digital products we’re raising the maturity, resilience, and security of how we design, build, and run them.

We’re now looking for a Software Engineer with an interest in security, quality, and platform maturity to join our team. This is a hybrid role that bridges hands-on software engineering with modern engineering practices such as secure-by-design development, platform tooling, and continuous improvement.

This role would suit:

• A software engineer who wants deeper exposure to security, quality, and engineering maturity, or

• Someone from a platform, infrastructure, or security background who wants to strengthen their software development experience.

Your Role

As a Software Engineer at TfGM, you’ll still be a builder at heart writing code, collaborating on solutions, and contributing to live services. However, a significant part of your impact will be enabling better outcomes across the wider engineering community, not just a single product.

You’ll work across:

• Product teams delivering and maintaining user-facing digital services

• Our Platforms Team, helping improve how software is built, secured, and supported

This means influencing standards, improving tooling, and helping teams adopt better ways of working while staying grounded in real delivery.

Who are we?

Transport for Greater Manchester is at the forefront of delivering a future-proof transport strategy for Greater Manchester. This is a pivotal time for us; with the region at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse and empowered by devolution, we are shaping the UK’s largest regional economy outside London. Our vision is for world-class connectivity that drives sustainable economic growth and ensures access to opportunities for all. To achieve this, we’re building a fully integrated, high-capacity transport network that serves over 6 million journeys a day, becoming a digital transport operator to keep the region moving and thriving.

Our dynamic, collaborative team makes TfGM an exciting place to work, with ample opportunities to deliver innovative products and services while advancing your own career. We foster a culture of learning, sharing, and continuous improvement, encouraging better ways of meeting user needs through technology and data. With a dress-down environment and an emphasis on teamwork, TfGM offers a rewarding space to make a real impact.

The breadth of what we do is wide and varied, and we are innovating fast!

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.

You will be able to demonstrate the skills and experience in the following key areas:

• Strong foundations in software engineering principles

• Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript, including frameworks such as React

• Version control using GitHub and collaborative development practices

• Cloud native development (AWS Lambda experience beneficial)

You might also have experience in

• CI/CD and automation (e.g. GitHub Actions)

• Application or infrastructure security concepts

• Improving code quality, maintainability, or reliability at scale

• Platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE-style practices

• Datastores such as DynamoDB, MySQL, or Redis

Most importantly, you care about building software that is reliable, secure, maintainable, and valuable.

What we can offer you

This is a permanent role and comes with a salary of £61,532 – £67,195 per annum depending on experience. This is comprised of base salary plus market supplement, (£50,532 – £56,195 + plus MFS £11,000, the market supplement is paid monthly and reviewed as required).

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel to and from work.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What’s next?

To apply please submit your CV and complete your application ensuring that you provide clear examples against the criteria questions, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

For essential guidance on applying for jobs at TfGM including AI use, Right to Work requirements, our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme, application tips, and reasonable adjustments Please follow this link to our application infographic!

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK – if in doubt please visit the following link Employers’ right to work checklist – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.