Principal Software Engineer

Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: UK, Fully Remote
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58349

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Principal Software Engineer.

The role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining C# applications using Visual Studio and Azure DevOps. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior developers, and drive technical excellence.

Day-to-day, you will lead the architectural design of C# applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance, as well as:

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in C#.
• Implement features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering their growth and skill development.
• Lead the architectural design of C# applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.

This role is full time and remote and flexible working.

Essential experience of the Principal Software Engineer

• Proven experience in C# development
• Strong proficiency in Visual Studio and .NET framework
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Leadership experience

Qualifications for the Principal Software Engineer
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 20/08/2024