Principal Software Engineer / Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer in Manchester

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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), TypeScript, Python, Java
• REST API development & OpenAPI / Swagger
• Cloud services (AWS or Azure)
• Containerisation & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Elasticsearch / Opensearch
• 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.