Senior Software Engineer

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Posted 22 Days Ago

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London, London Country:
United Kingdom Time Type:
Full time

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United Kingdom

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London, London, City of

Position Role Type:

Onsite Senior Software Engineer

Location:

London Permanent Onsite Due  to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to hold an active eDV clearance for this role.

About us At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Cyber Our National Security Cyber business delivers mission-critical solutions that safeguard our national security 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Working in a mature, agile environment, our SCRUM teams work synchronously with our customers to solve some of the toughest digital challenges faced in the world today.

Role & Responsibilities You'll be part of our experienced Software Engineering function, working in a cross-functional team, delivering and deploying critical software across a variety of business areas. 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 Requirements/knowledge (you don't need everything)
Experience working in an Agile delivery team

Java development with Spring Boot Front‑end development using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue)
Building enterprise‑grade web applications or backend services

Cloud & Dev Ops Experience  with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure Containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible or equivalent)
Data & Integration Working with SQL and No

SQL data stores

Familiarity with structured and unstructured data concepts

Messaging / streaming systems (Kafka, AWS SQS, or other cloud-native queuing services)

Experience with data visualisation tools or techniques

Quality & Engineering Practices Unit testing and test automation

Use of code repositories (Git), including branching strategies, pull‑request workflows, and merge processes

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.

Benefits::
Competitive salary

Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

Enhanced sick pay Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &…