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Principal Software Engineer / Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

RaytheonManchester, Lancashire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 22 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal Software Engineer role at Raytheon offers a hybrid work model and the chance to lead critical software development projects, providing significant opportunities for technical growth and mentorship. You will thrive here if you are an experienced full-stack engineer with expertise in modern technologies and a passion for impactful work within a respected organization. Apply today to contribute to groundbreaking projects and advance your career.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Leader

Job Description

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

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.

Skills

Docker
AWS
Mocha
Ansible
Azure
Cypress
Java
JavaScript
Jest
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Python
REST
React
Terraform
TypeScript

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