Junior Software Engineer

Job Title: Junior Software Engineer

Location: Warton / Samlesbury (Lancashire) We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £35,047 - £45,154 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you'll be doing:

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be working on world beating aircraft products, creating cutting edge software for our hardware systems and be involved in the entire lifecycle of a product, from design and development to integration. Working closely with systems and test engineers, you will enable the development of complex real-world systems that have to perform perfectly every time, as they will be used in real world combat. This could be on our Eurofighter Typhoon, our aircraft simulators, the F-35 or even helping define the future of air defence on Tempest.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Either of:
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a STEM subject
• A HNC or HND in a STEM subject plus relevant full-time work experience
• Innovative and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and team-working skills
• Self-motivated and pro-active with an eagerness to learn

Desirable:

• An understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from requirements & design through to delivery
• Familiarity with software development processes (e.g. design, coding, unit testing), experience of development tools (e.g. UML design tools, code IDEs)
• Experience in at least one of:
• Embedded software C++/Ada/Rust
• Desktop-based applications (Java and Eclipse RCP or C#/C++)
• Web-oriented applications and services (Java/C#, JSP, HTML, CSS, Apache middleware)
• Business intelligence/analytics tools and techniques (ETL, SQL, Python)
• Windows or Linux target environments
• Object-oriented design/development including UML

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Air Software Engineering Teams:

Working within a large team, this role will provide you with mentoring, support, training and guidance provided by experienced team members who will teach you how to develop software solutions that make a real difference to our customers in battlespace on a daily basis. You will learn to design, implement, maintain, debug and upgrade software products applying your academic learning into the real world.

Closing Date: 30th March 2025