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Software Engineers - Defence & National Security
Location: Manchester city centre + North West client sites
Salary: 60,000 - 90,000 per annum
Are you excited by the idea of guiding Defence users through complex technology challenges, and rapidly developing new solutions to meet critical national needs?
We are expanding a specialist technical team in Manchester and are looking for developers from all backgrounds - front end, back end or full stack - who want to shape the future of Defence and Security technology. What matters most is your passion for engineering, your willingness to learn, and your drive to progress in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment.
What you'll do
- Work across a wide range of projects, whether that's building intuitive front-end interfaces, developing resilient back-end systems, or delivering full-stack solutions.
- Deliver cloud-native and containerised applications, with opportunities to use technologies like AWS, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python, FastAPI, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and beyond.
- Collaborate in a DevSecOps environment, leveraging Atlassian, Jenkins, GitLab, OWASP and AWS toolsets.
- Apply automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Site Reliability Engineering principles to ensure scalability and resilience.
- Join cross-functional teams including developers, UX specialists, integration experts and end users to solve problems end-to-end.
- Guide clients through trade-offs and design decisions, explaining why a certain approach works best.
- Contribute to a strong learning culture - workshops, peer support, knowledge sharing and opportunities to explore new tools and techniques.
What we're looking for
- Experience in software development, in any stack or language - whether your expertise is JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, C#, or others.
- Solid engineering fundamentals, with an interest in developing your skills further.
- Experience working in collaborative, agile teams (Scrum or Kanban).
- Curiosity, initiative and a team-first mindset - you're as comfortable learning as you are sharing.
- Holds, or Eligible for UK National Security vetting at DV level.
What makes this opportunity different?
- Impactful work - You'll only be working on operationally critical, high-value tech projects.
- Early-stage team - Join at the ground floor, with opportunities to influence growth, mentor others, and step into leadership.
- Progression & variety - Significant investment is being made to build a forward-looking Defence technology function, creating genuine scope for career development.
Whether you're a front-end, back-end, or full-stack developer, if you're motivated to grow and want to see your work make a real difference in Defence and National Security, this is the environment to do it.
Drop your CV across for an initial discussion Today.
People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.
