Average Cplusplus Developer salary in the UK

Job: Product Developer Location: BostonWhy Greencore?Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between.In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.We have an excellent opportunity for a Product Developer to join our innovation team in Boston where you will support the development across multiple fresh produce categories!What you'll be doingAs a Product Developer, your role will be to develop new, and modify existing products, in line with written briefs, customer expectations and financial targets to create products of sustainable and repeatable quality and sustainable cost.In this role you will be required to:Develop new and existing recipes into commercially viable products, benchmarking regularly to gain awareness of the market for a competitive advantage.Create recipes alongside the chefs, input recipes onto the recipe management system and review the accuracy of all recipes inputted by the product technologist and chefs to ensure they meet cost, weight and nutritional requirements.Ensure the viability of new raw ingredients from an operational, technical and product development perspective to bring innovation and challenge to existing Greencore policies and practices.Complete and/or review and approve all relevant documentation (feasibility forms, customer submission forms, concept to process handovers etc.) to ensure accuracy of information shared internally and externally.Put all products through the feasibility process; working with the commercial, operations, technical and purchasing teams to solve any issues to ensure concepts are repeatable, sustainable and scalable.Compile product costing information and adapt recipes to balance food quality with achievement of commercial brief targets within customer brand standards.Present benchmarking, existing (EPD) and new products (NPD) at internal and customer presentations, passionately demonstrate good market and food trends awareness, to achieve product approval.Follow the critical path time lines as directed, escalating incomplete tasks and deficiencies in testing, to ensure that mitigating action can be taken to prevent delays in product acceptance and launch.Assist the process team with the scale up production trials, as required, to ensure production quality matches the kitchen quality signed off by the customer.Provide leadership and direct to ensure that across the team people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed an delivery to their potentialThere will be an element of travel in the role and therefore you must have a valid UK driving licence with access to your own vehicle.What we're looking forAt Greencore we put our people at the core. We celebrate their differences and help everyone to be themselves at work. Together we make every day taste better.Proven experience in food product developmentAnalytical; comfortable with producing and reviewing costingsProficient in all elements of product development from concept to launchProven track record of successfully validating products and producing high quality documentationConfident in presenting to all levels within the business and directly to customersExperience in people managementFull UK driving licenceIf this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.What you'll get in return* Competitive salary and job-related benefits* Holidays* Competitive matched pension contributions* Life insurance up to 4x salary* Company share save scheme* Greencore Qualifications* Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform* Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform* Enhanced parental leave and menopause policiesThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.We reserve the right to close the advert ahead of the specified closing date.Recruitment Fraud Warning:Greencore and its recruitment partners never charge candidates any fees at any stage of the hiring process. Any request for payment relating to a job opportunity should be considered fraudulent.

Development ChemistSwindon | £35,000–£37,000 | On-siteAre you a Development Chemist or Formulation Chemist looking for a hands-on R&D role where you can be involved throughout the product development lifecycle?Wilkins Talent Solutions is working with an established organisation in the Swindon area to recruit a Development Chemist to join its specialist technical team.This is a varied, practical role combining formulation, product development, laboratory testing and technical support, with the opportunity to see products progress from initial development through to manufacture.The role will include:Developing and improving formulated productsCarrying out laboratory testing and performance evaluationConducting stability and quality testingSupporting new product development and existing product improvementPlanning and carrying out product trialsProducing technical reports and documentationWorking closely with production teams during scale-up and manufactureProviding technical support where requiredEnsuring development work meets relevant quality, safety and regulatory standardsWhat we're looking forYou'll have a degree or equivalent qualification in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or a related discipline, together with experience or a good understanding of formulation and/or coatings technology.Previous experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment would be advantageous, although we're happy to consider candidates from other relevant product-development backgrounds.You'll be someone who enjoys being hands-on in the laboratory, is naturally curious and enjoys solving technical problems.Salary: £35,000–£37,000Location: SwindonWorking pattern: On-siteThis could suit someone currently working as a Development Chemist, Formulation Chemist, R&D Chemist, Applications Chemist or Product Development Chemist.For more information, apply via or contact Anneka Wilkins for a confidential conversation.

When a single customer can generate 40,000 orders in a day, reliability is not just an engineering goal. It is essential to keeping a business running.This is an opportunity to work on a highly available integration platform that connects eCommerce systems with warehouse operations, processing orders, stock movements and shipments in real time.The platform operates at 99.999% availability and has been tested to handle three million orders per day. You will help develop the next generation of services and tools while maintaining that level of reliability.Senior Developer (Node.js / TypeScript)Southampton, HampshireUp to £85,000Hybrid: 2 days per week in the office (Tuesday and Thursday)PermanentThe opportunityYou will join a collaborative engineering team responsible for designing, developing and operating a platform built around distributed services.The role is approximately 75% backend development, working primarily with Node.js and TypeScript, alongside some React frontend development.You will have genuine ownership of your work, from initial design and development through to deployment and production performance.Current projects include:Developing new integrations and services connecting customer platforms with warehouse systems.Improving reliability, monitoring and recovery across distributed systems.Building self-service tools that make integrations easier to configure and manage.Introducing Go where performance requirements justify it.Contributing to infrastructure, architecture and technical decisions.The team operates with considerable autonomy, without unnecessary approval processes or layers of management. Developers are trusted to make sensible technical decisions and take responsibility for what they deliver.What we're looking forThe two key requirements are:Strong commercial backend development experience with Node.js.Experience designing and developing distributed systems, ideally involving APIs, event-driven architecture and asynchronous processing.Experience with TypeScript is highly desirable, but not essential.The wider technology environment includes NestJS, Google Cloud, Pub/Sub, MongoDB, Redis, Terraform, GitHub Actions and Datadog. Experience with some of these would be useful, but you are not expected to know everythingKnowledge of React, Go or Site Reliability Engineering would also be beneficial.The team actively uses AI-assisted development tools. You don't need extensive experience with them, but you should be interested in exploring how they can improve development while maintaining good engineering standards.Above all, you should enjoy solving technical problems, taking ownership and collaborating with other developers.Benefits25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell holiday.An additional half-day of birthday leave.Pension, life assurance and Healthshield Cash Plan.Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.Employee assistance programme and wellbeing support.Discount schemes, cycle-to-work scheme and employee recognition awards.If you enjoy backend engineering, solving distributed systems challenges and having the freedom to influence how software is built, this is an opportunity worth exploring.Apply now or contact Chris Lynes at Spectrum IT Recruitment for more information.Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.