Principal Software Developer

Our client is working with clients in the Defence and Government sector to help them build robust and scalable digital platforms and are looking for a Software Engineer at a senior level with design and technical leadership experience to come and make a real impact on client projects!

They developing technology to deliver modern micro-services-based solutions to continuously improve environments through automation and infrastructure-as-code.

You will need experience within the Defence/Government sector.

Working Patterns: This role will be hybrid with 3-4 days per week on site. Candidates must be willing to travel to other client sites around the UK.

• Work with clients in the Defence sector to deliver end-to-end software features.
• Leading design of backend software and act as the Technical Lead.
• Gather technical and functional requirements from clients to understand the solutions which need to be developed.
• Leading teams of back and front-end developers, creatives and UX experts, integration teams and the client themselves.
• Deliver cloud native and containerised applications using technologies including AWS Lambda, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python FastAPI, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Build solutions as part of a DevSecOps and Agile ecosystem supported by tooling including Atlassian, Jenkins, GitLab, OWASP and AWS componentry.

• A Software Engineer with experience in the Defence/Government sector, as well as being able to articulate ideas and solutions.
• Experience as a Technical Lead and ability to take leadership on the design of software in a secure environment.
• An understanding of the fundamentals of software development in Java, as well as frameworks such as Node.JS, Spring, PHP etc.
• TypeScript, JavaScript and/or Python, along with good overall engineering patterns and practices and be able to explain these clearly.
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of leading Agile and Scrum teams.
• Excellent customer facing experience, ideally within consultancy.
• Knowledge of cloud/containerised applications such as AWS Lambda.
• Experience of Infrastructure-as-code.

• Holidays, starting at 25 days a year.
• A flexible contributory pension arrangement with matching contributions.
• Life assurance of six times your core salary (up to a maximum of six times the Earnings Cap, in force at date of death).
• Occupational sick pay.
• Personal accident insurance.

Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

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