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You’ll work across a variety of exciting, complex projects within a unique mission space, building elegant, stable solutions that have real-world impact.\nYou’ll also bring strong leadership, guiding your team through both technical and delivery challenges to ensure solutions meet customer needs.\n“My purpose is to lead a team of engineers, rise to the challenges presented, push the boundaries and define possible together.”\nWhat You’ll Do\nTake ownership of the team’s deliverables, working closely with the Scrum Master to define the best path forward.\nContribute across the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing and deployment.\nCollaborate with product teams, front-end engineers and QA to deliver high-quality solutions.\nMentor and guide junior developers, contributing to team capability and skill growth.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nExperience as a Software Developer with strong focus on one of the following: • Backend Java development (Spring Boot, Maven) • Frontend development (React, npm)\nProven experience designing, developing and deploying scalable backend systems.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD, containerisation, deployment technologies and cloud platforms (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS).\nExcellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills, ideally gained in an agile environment.\nIf you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and a willingness to grow.\nSecurity Clearance\nDue to the nature of our work, you must be British National for this clearance type.\nYou must be able to currently hold the Highest Level of UK Government security clearance.\nOur recruitment team is available to support you through the process: \nBenefits\nFlexible working options, including hybrid working and an optional compressed fortnight\nPrivate healthcare\nCash health plan\nHoliday buy/sell scheme\nCareer development programmes and specialist training\nPerformance-based bonuses\nWhy Join Us?\nA Mission to Believe In\nEvery day we help build a more secure and connected world across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. The work we do together matters.\nA Place to Belong and Thrive\nEvery voice matters. 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