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Software engineer vacancies in Liverpool at Happydance
Happydance has five software engineer vacancies in Liverpool right now: senior, mid-level, frontend, platform and graduate, with published salary bands from £26,000 to £65,000. All five are hybrid roles, 2 to 3 days a week together in the Liverpool City Region, building one AI-powered careers website platform used by clients like Canva, Uber and National Grid.
Every job ad on this page tells you the salary before you apply, the hard parts before you interview, and who the role is not for before you waste an evening on a cover letter. That is deliberate. We would rather you self-select out now than find out in month two.
Which software engineer roles are open in Liverpool?
Senior Software Engineer, £53,000 to £65,000
You lead a workstream within a squad, mentor engineers around you, and own technical decisions that enterprise clients will hold you to. The right person has shipped serious production systems and wants their fingerprints on architecture, not just tickets. The hard part is carrying ambiguity: seniors here decide things without a safety net of someone more senior to check with. Read the full Senior Software Engineer job.
Software Engineer, £40,000 to £50,000
The engine room of the squads. You ship features across the stack, from React frontends through Node.js and .NET services on Azure, and you are deliberately growing toward senior. This is the right role if you are done with junior-shaped work and want breadth, ownership and a visible progression path. Read the full Software Engineer job.
Frontend Engineer, £40,000 to £55,000
React and TypeScript as craft, with accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA treated as a hard requirement on everything we ship, because careers sites serve everyone or they fail. If semantics, keyboard navigation and screen reader behaviour feel like engineering rather than admin to you, this is your page. Read the full Frontend Engineer job.
Platform Engineer, £45,000 to £60,000
Azure, Terraform and GitHub Actions, keeping a multi-tenant platform fast, safe and boring in the best sense while hundreds of client sites depend on it. You will care about deployment paths, observability and infrastructure as code that other engineers can actually read. Read the full Platform Engineer job.
Graduate Software Engineer, £26,000 to £32,000
A first proper engineering job with real code review, real mentoring and a squad that expects you to ask questions rather than pretend. No hero culture, no sink-or-swim. You will ship production code in your first weeks, with support. Read the full Graduate Software Engineer job.
What do all five roles share?
Whichever role fits, some things are constant across the team.
Hybrid working, honestly defined. 2 to 3 days per week together, the rest remote. We are together because pairing, whiteboards and squad rituals genuinely work better in a room, not because anyone is watching badges swipe.
The squad model. Small cross-functional squads own product areas end to end, running two-week sprints with real code review and quarterly hack days. Engineers talk to designers and product people daily, not through tickets. The how we work page explains the full operating rhythm.
One product, real scale. Everyone works on the Happydance platform: conversational navigation, AI content generation, smart SEO automation, bias detection against 80 criteria, analytics dashboards and easy-apply overlays, serving enterprise clients on a multi-tenant architecture.
Published pay. Every band is on every ad. Where you land in a band depends on evidence of capability, not negotiating stamina. Benefits beyond salary are listed on each job page.
The same honest deal. Every role page includes the hard parts and a "who this is not for" section. They are different for each role, and they are true.
What is the application process like?
Straightforward and respectful of your time. Apply through the role page, and we reply to every application, including the noes. The process is a conversation about your experience, a practical exercise grounded in the actual work rather than puzzle trivia, and a meeting with the squad. The interview process page sets out every stage, how long each takes, and how to prepare, because surprising candidates is not a skill assessment.
Frequently asked questions
Can I apply for more than one software engineer vacancy at once?
Yes, and it is common, especially across the mid-level, frontend and platform roles. Tell us in your application and we will figure out the best fit together in the first conversation rather than making you run two processes.
Are these Liverpool jobs open to remote-only candidates?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. The squads work together in person 2 to 3 days a week, so you need to be within reach of the Liverpool City Region or planning to relocate. If you are weighing up a move, the cost of living comparison is the place to start.
How were the salary bands set?
Against Liverpool market data and the reality of our budget. The average software engineer in Liverpool earns £43,497 and seniors average around £53,000, so our bands sit at or above market. The salary page shows the full local picture with sources.
What happens after I apply?
You hear from a human, not an auto-reply that goes nowhere. Every application gets a response, and if it is a no we will say so quickly rather than leaving you guessing.
Do you sponsor visas?
Whatever the answer, it will be stated here plainly so nobody applies into a dead end.
Take your time, then pick your door
Five roles, five honest ads, no urgency theatre. Read the ones that fit your experience, check the hard parts twice, and have a look at how we actually work before you commit an evening to applying. The right role will still be worth it after all that reading.
The people behind these roles
“I swapped a ninety-minute Manchester commute for a ten-minute walk to Crosby beach. The work got harder and my life got easier. That trade still surprises me.”
Senior Software Engineer · Crosby · Read the story
“The first winter was hard and the visa admin was real. What kept me was the people, and a city that quietly got under my skin.”
Platform Engineer · moved from Spain · Read the story
“I closed the gap from teaching the hard way, and nobody here pretended it was easy. They told me the truth and helped me get better.”
Graduate Engineer · ex-teacher · Read the story
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Every vacancy publishes its salary band and its honest trade-offs. Read them as carefully as the good parts, then apply if it still fits.
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