Principal Software Engineer / Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Job Description

hackajob is collaborating with Raytheon to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Responsibilities

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• \n Design and build software using industry best practice

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• \n Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers

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• \n Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project

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• \n Contribute to continuous improvement within your team

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• \n Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team

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Required Skills and Experience

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• \n Full-stack experience across a selection of JavaScript frameworks (React, NextJS), TypeScript, Python, Java

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• \n REST API development & OpenAPI / Swagger

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• \n Cloud services (AWS or Azure)

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• \n Containerisation & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

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• \n Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

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• \n Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)

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• \n Elasticsearch / Opensearch

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• \n Unit testing / automation and use of testing frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jest, Cypress)

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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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