Principal Software Engineer

Raytheon UK have a full time, permanent opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team on our Manchester or Gloucester sites within a hybrid working pattern. As Principal Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to focus on technical work or have a mixture of technical focus and people management focus - guiding and developing our more junior members of the team.

Either way, you'll be a part of our experienced software dev function, working in a cross-functional team, delivering and deploying critical software across a variety of business areas. Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to hold SC and be eligible & willing to obtain eDV clearance. Responsibilities Design and build software using industry best practice Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project Contribute to continuous improvement within your team Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team Required Skills and Experience Full-stack experience across a selection of JavaScript frameworks (React, NextJS), Type Script, Python, Java REST API development & OpenAPI / Swagger Cloud services (AWS or Azure) Containerisation & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) Elasticsearch / Open search Unit testing / automation and use of testing frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jest, Cypress) We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas!

Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.