Software Engineering jobs in Bristol

What you would do

• Develop cutting-edge algorithms for weapon systems.
• Mathematically evaluate the performance of products.
• Work with future business teams to bring technical excellence to future concepts.
• Deliver critical algorithm components on time, on cost, and on quality to key programmes.
• Develop routing algorithms for long-range strike weapons.
• Develop operator decision aids for strike mission planning.

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What you would do

• Design, build and maintain backend-heavy features for internal systems supporting operations, reporting, analytics, and a B2B portal.
• Collaborate with the Head of Development on solution design, architecture, and technical direction.
• Write clean, testable, SOLID-compliant PHP using Symfony with strong unit and functional tests.
• Contribute to shared standards, code reviews, CI, and deployment practices, including the use of AI tools.
• Work with business users to understand requirements and deliver pragmatic solutions.
• Help evolve the platform and infrastructure using PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Vue.js, AWS, and Docker.

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What you would do

• Design and implement cloud data platforms and data products.
• Develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics solutions using Python, SQL, dbt, and cloud-native services.
• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and reusable frameworks.
• Define enterprise data architectures aligned to business goals.
• Lead data modelling activities and platform design.
• Provide expertise in MDM, data governance, and integration.

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What you would do

• Design and build a modern cloud-native platform from the ground up using Node.js, TypeScript, React and Microsoft Azure.
• Take ownership of backend services, APIs, integrations and cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to frontend development.
• Design scalable APIs and build event-driven integrations.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and establish engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines and architecture alongside the CTO.
• Incorporate AI-powered capabilities such as meeting transcription, automated report generation and workflow automation.

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What you would do

• Lead and develop a software engineering community of around 180 engineers across multiple sites and programmes.
• Define and execute the Software Engineering strategy for Electronic Warfare.
• Build a high-performing organisation with strong succession pipelines, career pathways and leadership development.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering effectiveness, quality, productivity and delivery performance.
• Champion the adoption of modern software engineering practices, digital technologies, automation, DevSecOps and AI-enabled engineering approaches.
• Shape software technology, process and toolchain roadmaps in partnership with technical and business leadership.

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What you would do

• Design, develop, and maintain back end services, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Build scalable server-side architecture for AI training and inference workloads.
• Write clean, documented, testable code.
• Integrate with databases, message queues, cloud services, and third-party APIs.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams.

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What you would do

• Design, build, and maintain DevOps pipelines and infrastructure for secure government programmes.
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes, Linux, and Azure/Cloud environments.
• Apply SecOps and Zero Trust approaches to solutions.
• Continuously learn and adopt enhanced DevOps practices.
• Support large-scale secure government programme delivery.

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What you would do

• Write high-quality, well-engineered software.
• Mentor peers and raise coding standards through code review and cross-team knowledge-sharing.
• Influence technical direction at squad level.
• Act as low-level design authority on system architecture.
• Develop and evidence automated tests alongside code.
• Maintain documentation discipline (Confluence or equivalent).

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What you would do

• Assess existing OpenShift environments, container images, deployment processes and technical dependencies.
• Diagnose and resolve platform, container, build and runtime issues.
• Improve deployment automation and build processes.
• Manage remediation of security vulnerabilities and technical debt.
• Support monitoring, logging and operational support capabilities.
• Improve platform resilience, recoverability and operational readiness.

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What you would do

• Lead multiple platform teams to standardize middleware patterns and client libraries across consumer teams.
• Establish group-level guardrails for APIs/SDKs, deprecation strategies, and upgrade playbooks.
• Sponsor shared observability frameworks and capacity models, reviewing error-budget posture.
• Design, test, and optimize software solutions, leading code and functional reviews.
• Guide teams on debugging, troubleshooting, testing, QA, error logging, and monitoring.
• Implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

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What you would do

• Build data lakes and warehouses.
• Create processes to extract or access operational data.
• Transform siloed datasets into integrated data models.
• Build data pipelines to ingest and transform data.
• Query and report on analytical data.
• Design and build well-structured, maintainable systems.

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What you would do

• Work directly with business and clinical leaders to turn loose ideas into buildable solutions; produce working prototypes quickly and demo live; lead POCs, innovation sprints and internal experiments; build modular backends in Python or TypeScript using clean architecture, OOP, SOLID and DDD; ship full-stack apps, APIs, agents and workflows with Next.js, React, FastAPI, Fastify, FastMCP and Hono; architect production-grade agentic applications with LangGraph, AutoGen, Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Assistants; integrate frontier and self-hosted LLMs via MCP and custom connectors; apply RAG with vector databases, hybrid retrieval, BM25 and similarity search; design prompt and context engineering balancing accuracy, repeatability, cost and latency; use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor) through structured workflows; build infrastructure, write evals, connect MCP servers, deploy agents and harden for real users; deploy to AWS, Azure, Cloudflare or Vercel via Docker, Kubernetes or serverless; treat evaluation as a first-class discipline; apply engineering practices including TDD, secrets management, security testing, structured logging, tracing and CI/CD; own systems end-to-end including keeping them running; collaborate with others on system design, agentic patterns and AI engineering practice.

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What you would do

• Develop high-quality features using .NET and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Deliver secure, scalable cloud-native applications hosted on AWS.
• Engage with client stakeholders and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Improve application architecture, coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Develop and maintain APIs, backend services and user-facing functionality.
• Optimise CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and modern DevOps practices.

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What you would do

• Design, develop and deploy AI and ML solutions for autonomous and mission-critical systems.
• Build machine learning, deep learning and computer vision models.
• Develop solutions using LLMs and emerging AI technologies.
• Support autonomous capabilities using ROS 2 and similar frameworks.
• Implement robust software engineering, testing, CI/CD and MLOps practices.
• Support bids, demonstrations, workshops and customer engagements.

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What you would do

• Develop, test and deploy secure software solutions.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated delivery.
• Develop reusable and scalable software capabilities.
• Conduct code reviews, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Implement APIs and third-party integrations.
• Contribute to secure development practices, threat modelling and vulnerability management.

Skills

What you would do

• Create and test software within a skilled team.
• Integrate services and move data between systems.
• Build practical solutions connecting different technologies.
• Work across a range of projects and products.
• Learn current and new technologies from experienced engineers.
• Take on increasing responsibility for project elements as you prove yourself.

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What you would do

• Helping to develop new connection solutions and new EE standards; Investigating major incidents that occur in service; Liaising with external partners on technical issues; New solution roll-out and migration of external partners' end-users; Creating documentation and video materials to train users and administrators; Presenting and promoting Extended Enterprise solutions and services within Airbus; Contributing to or potentially leading Extended Enterprise compliance recovery campaigns.

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What you would do

• Design 3D-printed and CNC'ed parts for prototype systems; code and test software; integrate hardware and assist with trials in the lab and in outdoor field tests; assist team members with their daily tasks; perform advanced research on optical communication and satellite communication systems for flying platforms.

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What you would do

• Design solution architectures for complex software and digital services.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, models, and design artefacts.
• Support development teams in implementing architectural solutions.
• Drive governance activities and ensure compliance with architecture, security, and data standards.
• Facilitate technical decision-making with stakeholders at all levels.

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What you would do

• Participate in and contribute to real engineering projects.
• Attend daily stand-ups in scrum project teams and participate in end-of-sprint demos, retrospectives, and feedback sessions.
• Develop engineering skills through agile methodologies and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Collaborate with AI tools and emerging agentic technologies to solve complex problems.
• Learn how engineering contributes across business technology functions including Retail, Wealth, Commercial & Institutional, and Customer & Operations.
• Attend business and engineering spotlight sessions and networking events.

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