# Senior Developer (Manchester) > Insight Investment · Manchester, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-21 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Individual Retirement Solutions ## Description We are seeking a highly experienced and competent Senior Developer with expertise in C#/.NET and a strong background in stakeholder engagement to work within a collaborative, cross-functional team. You will have experience working on large scale complex products for retail customers or other external stakeholders. It is important that you have experience of “build” and “run” activities and be able to evidence how you support systems in production environments.  It is crucial that you can demonstrate a proven track record in understanding and addressing complex business problems as we do not have business analysts within our team. You will be adept at translating business requirements into technical work that achieves desired business outcomes and will be able to work closely with the product owner and developers to prioritize and negotiate tasks effectively.  As a Senior Developer, you will be able to articulate and advocate for architectural patterns, engineering and testing principles to drive our product forward as we scale.   **Role Responsibilities:**  - Understand business requirements and translate them into user-facing features using .NET (C#) and Python.  - Work closely with other members of the Individual Retirement Solutions team (including business stakeholders) to understand the logic and rationale behind the Retirement Pathway  - Participate and contribute to the go-to-market strategy for this new business line  - Own features and releases to ensure they are delivered as quickly as possible without compromising on quality  - Take a security first approach to development to protect sensitive data and Insight’s reputation.  - Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.  - Inform and improve our testing strategy, working with other developers and QAs to evolve our test suites (Unit, Integration and Automation tests)  - Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team by enhancing our delivery process and coding efficiency  - Work closely with Insight’s existing technology organization to ensure corporate standards and regulatory requirements are met  - Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.  - Participate in and, where appropriate, lead meetings with business stakeholders  **Experience Required:** **Essential** - Desire to make a real-world impact in people’s lives and do the right thing for our clients  - Take initiative and ownership over outcomes (including working directly with business stakeholders to understand and define requirements)  - Ability to collaborate with existing technology teams where external dependencies are required   - Intellectual curiosity and constant desire to improve knowledge  - Proficiency in .NET (C#)  - Experience with Python  - Fundamentals and approaches: OOP, SOLID principles, TDD/BDD/ATDD  - Experience in agentic coding with LLMs and how this fits into the SDLC  - Knowledge of event sourcing, ideally with Eventuous  - Experience with message driven architecture, ideally with Azure Service Bus  - Experience with Azure PaaS services  - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (TeamCity, GitHub Workflows)  - Knowledge of security best practices for web development.  - Pair/Mob programming and performing peer code reviews  - Familiarity with RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.  - Experience with version control systems, preferably Git.  - Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.  - Excellent communication and teamwork skills.  **Preferred**  - Experience with React and Javascript  - Experience with Playwright for automation testing.  - Experience working with SQL  - Experience in the financial services industry. Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other factors protected by federal, state and/or local laws. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com](mailto:TalentAcquisition@InsightInvestment.com) **About Insight Investment**[](https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/) Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight managed £631.9bn of assets as at 31 December 2025across its core liability driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income and currency capabilities. Insight has a clear mission and purpose to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting investors’ chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility. Insight operates across the globe with a presence in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Japan and Australia; and is a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY”) (NYSE:BK), the global financial services. company. The business employs over 1,100 people including 277 investment professionals. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: [https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/](https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/) ## Apply [Apply at Insight Investment](https://apply.workable.com/insight-investment/j/F5A0096DF0/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)