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Principal Software Engineer

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ID: #2952
Posted: 2026-03-18
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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.

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