Job Details Date Posted: Country: United Kingdom Location: 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 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 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 & DevOps
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 NoSQL 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
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 & shared parental leave
Work Culture 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site‑specific arrangements. Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early! Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role. Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year. Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.
Equal Employment Opportunity RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Company Overview RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry‑leading businesses– Collins Aerospace, Pratt&Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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