As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll lead in the development of new software features for a critical National Security product and continued updates to operating systems and third-party packages. This'll be achieved by working closely with the services team to address problems and interacting with the customers technical teams to understand new requirements.

Your activities will also include; providing technical training internally, technical consultancy to customers and porting products to new hardware platforms when required. All completed with the purpose of advancing the customer mission and ensuring the safety and prosperity of the U.K.

The Key Requirements...

The key technical skills you'll need exposure to are;

• Software development primarily C++ but knowledge of Python would be beneficial also.
• Linux (ideally Red Hat, Centos or Rocky)
• Network protocols
• Socket programming

Experience in the following areas would also be beneficial but is not essential;

• Web based technologies such as React and Django
• SQL databases, ideally PostgreSQL
• Testing and diagnostics using a range of tools such as Robot Framework, Jenkins or Gitlab