At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build innovative software while guiding junior team members.
- Company: Join Raytheon, a leader in tech innovation with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work options, and ongoing professional development.
- Other info: Exciting opportunities for growth in a dynamic and supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in critical projects and advance your career in tech.
- Qualifications: Full-stack experience with JavaScript frameworks and cloud services is preferred.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with Raytheon to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. 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
- 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!
