29 Software Engineers jobs in London

Senior & Principal Software Engineers - Aerospace & Defence
East London / Kent (3 days on client side - travel and accommodation expenses covered)
Senior: up to 65,000 | Principal: up to 75,000
Safety-Critical Embedded Software | Defence & Aerospace Projects
An industry-leading consultancy in the aerospace and defence space is building a brand-new division in the East London / Kent region - and this is a fantastic opportunity to get in at the ground level.
We're looking for Senior and Principal Software Engineers with proven experience in safety-critical embedded systems . You'll join a growing team working on a wide variety of high-impact projects across mission-critical domains.

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  Strong background in safety-critical embedded software engineering
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  Experience in the defence or aerospace sectors
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  Willingness to work 3 days per week on client site
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  UK eligibility for security clearance is a plus

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  Competitive salaries: up to 65K (Senior), 75K (Principal)
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  Join at a pivotal stage of company growth
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  Work on diverse, technically challenging projects
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  Career progression opportunities as the division scales

• Design, develop, and implement scalable and resilient cloud-native applications.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Develop and maintain microservices and RESTful APIs.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in relevant programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go).
• Ensure security best practices are implemented across all cloud services.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement performance enhancements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production environments.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and deliver features.
• Mentor junior software engineers and conduct code reviews.
• Contribute to the evolution of the company's technical roadmap and architectural standards.
• Stay abreast of emerging cloud technologies and industry trends.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on cloud architecture.
• Proven experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Expertise in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Java, Python, Go, C#).
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with DevOps principles and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, suitable for remote team interaction.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus.

We are seeking a skilled Development Lead to join our dynamic software engineering team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, leadership abilities and a passion for driving innovation.

As a Development Lead, you will be responsible for guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, overseeing project delivery and contributing to the design of high quality software solutions for our industry leading platform. If this sounds like you, we look forward to reviewing your application.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of highly skilled and motivated Software Engineers, providing guidance, mentorship and support to foster their growth and career development.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to:

• Design and deliver high quality software solutions.
• Refine and provide estimations of the workload.
• Allocate resources effectively and monitor progress to ensure smooth sprint and release delivery.
• Escalate any technical issues, roadblocks or project risks.

- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback and enforce coding standards and software development best practices.

- Engage in sprint ceremonies while enabling productive discourse.

- Develop and refine technology choices, processes and standards as a key member of the Software Engineering management team.

- Recruit and onboard new Software Engineers.

- Spend time on hands-on software development as and when necessary, based on availability to do so.

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Strong management, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and delegate work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and handle competing deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Extensive relevant software development experience broadly ranging from front-end and back-end with depth as an accomplished engineer in C# .NET.

Experience and strong knowledge of:

o   C# .NET

o   ASP .NET MVC

o   LINQ and Entity Framework

o   SQL Server

o   Web APIs

o   Source control management

o   Unit tests

o   Web-based languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

o   Azure DevOps

o   Octopus

o   Issue tracking tools

o   Strong knowledge of OOP, SOLID, OWASP and Secure Coding principles.

• Excellent problem-solving skills

Desirable skills:

• Experience working for a tech business
• Insurance industry experience
• Knowledge of large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Benefits

• We offer a generous 28 days’ annual leave allowance, in addition to

Software Engineering Manage r

Based : Offices in London and High Wycombe with hybrid working available

Term : Permanent, Full time

Salary : Negotiable + excellent benefits

The Role:

Our engineers are part of agile teams that typically include Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Test, Web and Application Engineers. Teams focus on a wide range of value streams such as creative music software, audio plug-ins, internal tools, embedded software and applications that augment our products.

Engineering Managers provide leadership and coaching to support and develop talent, to meet the growing needs of the business. They work closely with our Tech Leads to communicate strategy and nurture a shared engineering culture with a sense of unity and direction that allows teams to do their best work.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to look after 3 teams and up to 10 direct reports, including Software Testing. The Software team is currently pathing the way for future best practices within the wider group. As Engineering Manager you'll have an opportunity to directly contribute to the best practices that we choose to adopt.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the engineering capabilities of several Agile teams, including Software Testing.
• Guide the personal and professional development of engineers within your teams, through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback.
• Collaborating with Product Owners & Tech Leads to ensure teams are balancing quality and flow with delivery.
• Partner with Tech Leads in communicating strategy and foster inter-team collaboration.
• Support the teams by facilitating communication and bringing the wider context.
• Enable others to make technical choices by facilitating the exchange of ideas.
• Ensure we have the right skillset in the team, shaping our hiring best practices to attract the best talent.
• Support and improve the onboarding of new engineers into the team.
• Source and manage contractors and consultants.
• Get involved with diversity projects to help build an inclusive culture.
• Champion knowledge-sharing programmes across Agile teams, such as product demonstrations, lunch-and-learns, hack days and tech events.
• Follow the work of other agile teams and look for opportunities to adopt common practices and technologies.
• Ensure the team is equipped to achieve their goals, through training and equipment.
• Introduce and monitor metrics to help with decision making.
• Collaborate with the engineering management team to evolve our ways of working, designing team processes to create a great engineering culture at Focusrite.

Your Profile:

• You have exceptional communication skills. You are able to articulate complex problems and situations to a range of audiences.
• You have worked as a senior Software Engineer.
• You have a broad knowledge of the C++ language and ecosystem.
• You have experience managing or mentoring teams using Agile and DevOps best practices, in a culture of psychological safety.
• You have proven leadership skills and evidence of engagement with relevant communities.
• You take a human-centric approach, showing kindness and compassion.
• You have a passion for helping others to achieve ambitious goals.
• You are a strong advocate for technical excellence, automated testing, frequent deployments and agile processes.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, workplace nursery benefit, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

Were working with a growing tech-co, a UK leader within EDI solutions and part of a major global group. Were looking for a Head of Software Engineering to join the business as it embarks on the next phase of its journey, to drive the strategic evolution of the technology and its product development.

The role will have two distinct phases: identifying the best tech stack for the platform; developing.

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We’re looking for experienced lead engineers or equivalent to lead targeted micro-workshops for small groups of software engineers. The sessions last up to 90 minutes, take place remotely via our app, and based around high quality teaching material that we produce.

Your job is to bring expertise and enthusiasm for software engineering and ensure our learners leave with a deep understanding of the topic (understanding why , not just knowing what  or how ), and the ability to apply new skills.

You can expect to be teaching senior as well as junior engineers, answering interesting questions tangential to our material, and helping learners to understand and improve the results they see when using LLMs. For this reason, we’ve found that the skill profile required is more similar to pairing or technical mentoring than it is to typical classroom teaching.

Skiller Whale changes what tech teams are capable of through live sessions led by subject-matter experts.

Developers attend a 60-90 minute session every week or two, learning something new through challenging exercises with an expert leading the session to explain the topic and answer difficult questions. Learners love us (they give us an average rating of 4.8 / 5) and we have a measurable impact on the teams we work with.

Our learners say:

| "The real-time feedback loop of learning something, putting it into practice and getting insight beyond 'it works' beats any other learning experience I've had by miles"

| “I loved that I could ask any questions at all, and learned new things even in a technology I’ve been using for 15 years!”

| “The biggest pro of Skiller Whale is the quality of the coaches. I really appreciate the deep knowledge they had both on the internals of Python, and how to architect systems”

We'd love for you to apply if you enjoy building the skills and understanding of others, and have experience with most (at least 4) of the following:

• Explaining basic machine learning concepts to others.
• Some knowledge of LLM internals, e.g. transformer building blocks (at least enough to underpin deeper understanding of their behaviour)
• Prompt engineering
• Agentic AI & using IDE integrations with AI agents
• Coding with LLMs, e.g. setting up Cursor/Copilot configs, and writing prompts for coding/debugging
• Integrating/Pipelining with LLMs, e.g. langchain
• Customising LLM tools, e.g. fine tuning LLMs, using RAG systems

You’ll need to have significant expertise and experience in a real-world setting, be able to give nuanced answers to difficult questions, and explain advanced concepts clearly and succinctly.

An outline of the first modules of this curriculum can be found here:

Working Hours

Most of our coaches lead between 1 and 4 sessions per week (1.5 - 6 hours), with Skiller Whale making up part of a portfolio career, or adding variety to their main employment, consulting or fractional roles. We typically book regular weekly 90 minute time-slots for these sessions, based around your availability.

The Platform

All our teaching is done through the Skiller Whale platform, which includes video conferencing and other tooling designed to make teaching as slick as possible. High quality written content and exercises are provided by Skiller Whale, so you shouldn’t need to do significant preparation before a session (we assume ½ - 1 hour to get familiar with the material, and we pay for preparation the first time a module is taught).

Accommodations

Should you require any accommodations during the interview process, please reach out to Dave Millican ( ) to let him know. We’re always happy to help and will do everything we can to accommodate you.

Requirements

We want to be seen as intelligent, playful learners. Our customers need to trust us to teach their engineers how they should be building software and working effectively in the real world. For our coaches, that means you need to demonstrate:

Knowledge & Understanding

You should come across (legitimately) as an expert, able to expand beyond the provided material when appropriate. E.g: examples from your experience in different settings; what you’ve found works well, and what doesn’t.

Careful Listening and Clear Explanations

You must be able to deliver clear and concise explanations in spoken English and be able to adapt your explanation style to match the level of your audience.

Expert Spoken and Written English

You should be expert and eloquent in spoken English, with an accent that will be clear to non-native (but fluent) speakers from various backgrounds. You should be able to quickly understand questions with complex phrasing or grammar and know when you need to clarify.

A Personable, Passionate and Professional Demeanour

You should be able to easily build rapport with new groups of people, and create a safe space for learners to ask questions. You should come across across as friendly and demonstrate enthusiasm for the topics you teach, whilst maintaining professionalism.

Industry Experience

In order to teach senior engineers with confidence, it’s important that you have extensive real-world experience! Learners may well ask about how things are really done in practice and being able to give examples and anecdotes is important.

Teaching or Mentoring Experience (formal or informal).

Experience teaching groups of software engineers, or mentoring other developers (even in an unofficial capacity) is a bonus, particularly if those people were relatively senior. Since this is an essential part of most senior, lead and engineering management roles we would expect most suitable candidates to have some experience here.

Bonus Points For:

Experience with Multiple Languages / Frameworks / Tools etc.

All the people we teach are already software developers, but will come from various backgrounds / have experience with different programming languages. Having context from those is sometimes useful to help learners’ understanding.

Benefits

• Rate: £100 per hour (+ paid £50 for preparation for each new module taught)
• Very flexible work - we will aim to schedule sessions that fit your availability, and you have no ongoing commitment.
• Fully remote, forever.
• Have a real impact on learners. Our sessions actually make people better at their jobs.
• Teaching is fun!