Are you ready to contribute to a digital transformation that directly impacts thousands of lives? At Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), we’re reimagining the city’s transport system, and we need passionate engineers to help us make it happen. If you're eager to take on new challenges, collaborate with talented engineers, and build user-focused solutions, this is your opportunity to create technology that keeps Greater Manchester moving.
Your Role
As an Associate Software Engineer at TfGM, you’ll be a key player in developing and maintaining solutions that improve how our city moves. Working alongside an experienced team, you’ll contribute to various projects, from the design phase through to deployment, with a focus on ensuring reliability, scalability, and a great user experience. You’ll have the chance to grow your technical skills in a supportive, hands-on role that encourages continuous learning.
Who are we?
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) 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.
As an Associate Software Engineer, you’ll bring your skills and enthusiasm for learning to the team. Key skills and experience include:
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Basic knowledge of ReactJS, Typescript, HTML, CSS
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Familiarity with Git for source code management
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An understanding of cloud-native development (AWS Lambda is a plus)
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Basic experience with CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions
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Some exposure to databases like DynamoDB, MySQL, or Redis
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Experience working in an Agile development environment or eagerness to learn
What we can offer you
The role is a permanent position within an experienced and supported team working across TfGM, with a salary of £33,955 - £38,723 per annum depending on skills and experience.
Our benefits include:
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28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
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Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
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Free bus, rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
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Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
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Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
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We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What's next?
If you believe you have the skills and experience required, we’d really like to hear from you. To apply please submit your CV providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the 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
