- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: Manchester
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
We are representing a confidential cybersecurity software organization in their search for a Principal Software Engineer based in Manchester. This is a highly technical leadership role where you'll unblock engineering teams, standardize practices, and own cross-functional initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on with code. You'll be responsible for rapidly prototyping MVPs and shipping polished features across the full stack, working with significant independence alongside product, design, and engineering colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship new product features end-to-end across the technology stack
- Lead rapid prototyping and MVP development from concept to production
- Develop modern frontend applications using TypeScript, Vue 3 Composition API, and Tailwind
- Contribute to backend services using Node, Bun, Koa, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and AWS
- Resolve complex technical impasses and establish engineering standards
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to shape product direction
- Improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience
- Support hiring, performance management, and technical roadmap planning
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience building modern frontend applications with TypeScript and Vue 3
- Solid backend experience with Node-based services and relational databases
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Prisma, AWS, and REST APIs
- Comfortable moving quickly, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping iteratively
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Able to work independently in a hybrid environment with significant autonomy
- Ideally, prior experience in early-stage startups navigating growth and technical scaling challenges
- Track record of technical leadership without formal management responsibility
How We Work With You
When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening conversation. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client with full context about your background and motivations. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication flows through our recruiting team to ensure a structured, professional process.
Pay
This role offers equity participation in addition to base salary. Specific compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience level.
Location: Manchester, hybrid working arrangement
Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive recruiting practices. We evaluate all candidates based on qualifications and fit for the role, regardless of background or identity.
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A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
Terms used in this posting
- equity
- Ownership stake in the company, usually in the form of stock options or RSUs, offered in addition to salary.
- hybrid
- A work arrangement combining both in-office and remote/at-home work, typically on a set schedule.
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Working in Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Manchester is the city at the centre of the eponymous county of Greater Manchester in North West England. It had a population of over 589,000 in 2024. It borders the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million.
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. England shares a land border with Scotland to the north and another land border with Wales to the west, and is surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and
Nearby green space: 5 parks within 1.5km — closest is Old Moat Park (608m). via OpenStreetMap
Nearest public transit: Fallowfield, Yew Tree Road / near Victoria Road (bus stop, 261m). via OpenStreetMap
- Elevation 36m (118 ft)
Source: Wikipedia (state)
About this role & career path
Traits that fit this role
- Innovation
- Adaptability
- Achievement Orientation
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Attention to Detail
Source: O*NET Work Styles (Distinctiveness Rank).
Typical preparation needed: Job Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. — via O*NET
Industry news
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- AI tools have sparked a coding revolution. Software engineers are figuring out what comes next. - Business Insider
Source: O*NET (public-domain bulk data)
Salary & compensation
Workers in Computer & Mathematical occupations earn a national median of $98,769 — via US Census ACS / Data USA
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Listing facts
- Role Principal Software Engineer
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location Manchester
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 19, 2026
- Apply by October 19, 2026
- Overview Full job description on this page (358 words)
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- Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
- Confer with data processing or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data processing projects.
- Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design systems and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Consult with customers or other departments on project status, proposals, or technical issues, such as software system design or maintenance.
- Coordinate installation of software system.
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