software engineer

Raytheon

<div>Date Posted:
2026-03-17
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Manchester, Lancashire
Position Role Type:
Onsite<div>
Raytheon UK have a full time, perm opportunity for a Software Engineer to join our specialist teams working onsite.</div><div> 
You'll be part of our experienced software dev function, working in a cross-functional team, delivering and deploying critical software across a variety of business areas.</div> 
We have opportunities for Software Engineers at every level within a team across our Manchester, Gloucester or London teams, so your Recruiter will discuss the great opportunities for development or challenges we offer based off your professional profile.
All candidates must already hold eDV to be eligible. 
Responsibilities<ul><li>
Design and build software using industry best practice</li><li>
Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers</li><li>
Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project</li><li>
Contribute to continuous improvement within your team</li><li>
Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team</li></ul>
Required Experience:<ul><li>
Full stack experience within an agile team building enterprise‑grade web applications or backend services</li><li>
Java development with Spring Boot</li><li>
Front‑end development using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue)</li><li>
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure</li><li>
Containerisation and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes</li><li>
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible or equivalent)</li><li>
Unit testing and test automation</li><li>
Use of code repositories (Git), including branching strategies, pull‑request workflows, and merge processes</li></ul>
We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.<div>
Benefits &amp; Work Culture
Benefits:<ul><li>
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)</li><li>
6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days</li><li>
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)</li><li>
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others</li><li>
Enhanced sick pay</li><li>
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &amp; shared parental leave</li></ul>
Work Culture:<ul><li>
37hr working week</li><li>
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!</li><li>
Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.</li><li>
Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.</li></ul></div> 
About us
This area of Raytheon UK provide DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations.
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. 
 
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
RTX 
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses &ndash; Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt &amp; Whitney, and Raytheon. 
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over &pound;2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We&rsquo;re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Software Engineer

<div>Date Posted:
2026-06-24
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Manchester, Lancashire
Position Role Type:
Onsite
Raytheon UK have a full time, permanent opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team on our Manchester or Gloucester sites within a hybrid working pattern.
As Principal Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to focus on technical work or have a mixture of technical focus and people management focus - guiding and developing our more junior members of the team. Either way, you'll be a part of our experienced software dev function, working in a cross-functional team, delivering and deploying critical software across a variety of business areas.
Due to the interesting work we do and the sector this team is working in, we require all candidates to hold SC and be eligible &amp; willing to obtain eDV clearance.
Responsibilities<ul><li>
Design and build software using industry best practice</li><li>
Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers</li><li>
Contribute to the completion of milestones associated with your project</li><li>
Contribute to continuous improvement within your team</li><li>
Collaborate with your peers on technical direction within your team</li></ul> 
Required Skills and Experience<ul><li>
Full-stack experience across a selection of JavaScript frameworks (React, NextJS), TypeScript, Python, Java</li><li>
REST API development &amp; OpenAPI / Swagger</li><li>
Cloud services (AWS or Azure)</li><li>
Containerisation &amp; Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)</li><li>
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)</li><li>
Relational Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)</li><li>
Elasticsearch / Opensearch</li><li>
Unit testing / automation and use of testing frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jest, Cypress)</li></ul>
We appreciate you may not be an expert in every area above - we can support with training and development in some areas! Please do make an application and we will identify where we can best support your growth specific to your application.<div>
Benefits &amp; Work Culture
Benefits:<ul><li>
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)</li><li>
6 times salary &lsquo;Life Assurance&rsquo; with pension</li><li>
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days</li><li>
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)</li><li>
Private Medical Insurance</li><li>
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others</li><li>
Enhanced sick pay</li><li>
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity &amp; shared parental leave</li></ul>
Work Culture:<ul><li>
37hr working week</li><li>
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!</li><li>
Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.</li><li>
Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.</li></ul></div> 
About us
In this area of Raytheon UK, we provide DevSecOps at scale, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, cyber and geospatial intelligence capabilities to support the defence, intelligence and cyber sectors. Collaborating with customers and suppliers to deliver secure, mission critical systems using the latest technologies and innovations.
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. 
 
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
RTX 
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses &ndash; Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt &amp; Whitney, and Raytheon. 
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over &pound;2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We&rsquo;re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.
#LI-AS3
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Principal Software Engineer

GAMMA

A bit about us
 At Gamma we provide voice, data, and mobile solutions to businesses across the UK, Germany, Spain, and the Benelux region.
 Our people are at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team that’s transforming how businesses connect and communicate globally.
 We’re growing fast, but we never lose sight of what matters: our people. Whether you're looking to develop your skills, take on new challenges, or make a meaningful impact, Gamma is the place to do it.
 What is the role responsible for?
 As a Lead Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing and maintaining Gamma’s Group Products suite, including proprietary OSS/BSS and UCaaS & CCaaS solutions. This role exists to lead technically complex development work across the platform, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and high performing, while supporting and mentoring engineers and driving best practice across the team.
 What will you be doing day-to-day?
 
Here are a few examples of what you could be involved with: 
<ul>
<li>Leading technically complex development across the platform, building new features and maintaining existing systems using TypeScript, Node.js, and React</li>
<li>Collaborating with product, architects, and engineering teams to scope, plan, and estimate solutions that are scalable and future-proof</li>
<li>Designing and developing secure, high-performance APIs and integrating third-party tools and services</li>
<li>Producing and reviewing detailed Solution Design documentation, ensuring consideration of security, performance, and system-wide impact</li>
<li>Driving high standards through code reviews, mentoring engineers, and contributing to CI/CD and testing best practices</li>
<li>Applying site reliability engineering principles to improve observability, resilience, and incident response</li>
<li>Monitoring, profiling, and optimising application performance, including capacity planning to meet SLAs</li>
<li>Identifying technical debt and recommending improvements to systems, processes, and tooling</li>
</ul>
What you’ll bring
 You don’t need experience in everything listed, but we’re especially keen to hear from people with some of the following skills:
 <ul>
<li>Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks such as React or Angular</li>
<li>Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and API design principles</li>
<li>Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Playwright), and version control</li>
<li>Proven experience running large-scale production systems in AWS and working with Kubernetes/containerisation</li>
<li>Strong debugging, performance optimisation, and problem-solving skills across distributed systems</li>
<li>Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical leadership within teams</li>
<li>Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability engineering practices</li>
<li>Experience with Java and/or telecoms technologies (e.g. VoIP, WebRTC) is highly beneficial</li>
</ul>
What do we offer you?
 <ul>
<li>25 days annual leave + birthday</li>
<li>Subsidised private medical insurance</li>
<li>5.1% matched pension contributions</li>
<li>Enhanced parental leave</li>
<li>Life assurance and Income protection</li>
<li>Share save and incentive plans</li>
<li>Electric Vehicle and Cycle scheme</li>
<li>Employee discounts</li>
<li>Volunteer day</li>
</ul>
A few things to note
 We require all candidates to be eligible to work in the UK and pass a basic DBS check.
 If you don’t meet every requirement but feel you could thrive in this role, we would still encourage you to apply.
 Gamma is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building diverse, inclusive teams where everyone feels valued and can be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, especially those underrepresented in our industry. As a family-friendly employer, we foster a culture of trust, autonomy, and flexibility to support your work-life balance and help you thrive at Gamma.
 For recruitment agencies – we have a network of fantastic partners that support us in our hiring from time to time. We’re not looking to increase that network currently, so please don’t send speculative CVs.
 #LI-JM
 #LI-Hybrid

Lead Software Engineer

On the Beach

<div>We&rsquo;re On the Beach! Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks &ndash; and that&rsquo;s just the beginning of our story.
We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.
Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we&rsquo;re accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.
Ready to build the future of travel with us?
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer in Hotels Acquisition, you will build scalable backend systems and platforms that ingest, process and distribute hotel inventory across On the Beach. We have AWS-hosted high-performance databases that contain billions of items. There are always interesting problems to solve!
You will work on systems that support supplier connectivity, inventory acquisition, pricing and availability freshness, cache optimisation and search distribution.
This is a backend and platform focused role with strong emphasis on distributed systems, cloud native technologies, operational excellence and high performance at scale. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, analysts and commercial teams to deliver reliable and commercially impactful solutions. 
What you&rsquo;ll be doing day to day
At On the Beach, our Hotels Acquisition team builds the platforms that power hotel choice, availability and pricing across the holiday journey.
We acquire, optimise and distribute hotel inventory from multiple suppliers to ensure customers can discover the right holiday at the right price with accurate availability.
Our systems sit behind hundreds of thousands of searches every day and operate in a domain where scale, data freshness, supplier reliability and customer experience are deeply connected.
Our mission is to deliver the best hotel choice, availability and value through scalable and intelligent acquisition platforms.
This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving large scale, data intensive and distributed systems challenges that directly influence customer experience and business performance. 
You&rsquo;ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience
We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and building scalable systems that operate reliably under high throughput environments.
You will likely have experience in:<ul><li>
Building scalable backend systems and distributed services</li><li>
Designing and operating cloud native platforms</li><li>
Working with large scale and data intensive applications</li><li>
Messaging infrastructure, streaming technologies and event driven architectures</li><li>
Building reliable and observable production systems</li><li>
Working with APIs, integrations and external suppliers</li><li>
Solving scalability, latency and operational resilience challenges</li><li>
Working collaboratively across engineering, product and commercial teams</li><li>
Making pragmatic technical decisions in fast moving environments</li><li>
Curiosity to learn new technologies and continuously improve engineering practices</li><li>
Interest in AI assisted engineering, agentic coding workflows and modern developer tooling</li></ul>
Experience with .NET, C#, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, observability tooling and modern cloud native engineering practices is highly desirable. 
What to expect from our interview process
After a call with our Talent Acquisition Team, We will run a 3 stage interview process all on Microsoft Teams, Which will consist of: 
 
Hiring Manager meet &amp; greet - 30 Minutes 
Behavioural &amp; ways of working - 60 Minutes 
Tech Pairing &amp; System Design - 90 Minutes
We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.
Ways of working 
Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.
We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You&rsquo;ll be in the office one day every two weeks, and you&rsquo;re more than welcome to come in more if you&rsquo;d like.
Our benefits 
We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.
These include:<ul><li>
25 days holiday plus your birthday off</li><li>
Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your On the Beach package holiday</li><li>
Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications</li><li>
Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support</li><li>
Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling</li><li>
Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan</li><li>
Company Sick Pay scheme</li><li>
Regular wellbeing events</li><li>
Gym discount</li><li>
Share Incentive Plan (SIP)</li><li>
Death in Service cover</li><li>
Onsite subsidised coffee shop</li><li>
The Sandbox (our very own bar)</li><li>
Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre</li><li>
Regular social events</li><li>
Cycle to Work scheme</li></ul></div>

Senior Software Engineer - Flight Acquisition

Speechify

<div>The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You'll Do
<ul>
<li>Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline</li>
<li>Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.</li>
<li>Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team's dataset roadmap to power Speechify's next-generation consumer and enterprise products.</li>
</ul>
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
<ul>
<li>BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.</li>
<li>5+ years of industry experience in software development.</li>
<li>Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments</li>
<li>Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)</li>
<li>Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus</li>
<li>Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.</li>
</ul>
What we offer
<ul>
<li>A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.</li>
<li>An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.</li>
<li>A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.</li>
<li>An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.</li>
<li>Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.</li>
<li>Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.</li>
<li>Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.</li>
<li>Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.</li>
</ul>
Think you're a good fit for this job?

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
 
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?

Refer them!

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</div>

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure & Acquisition - Manchester, United Kingdom

Turnitin, Llc

<div>Company Description 
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in global education. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions that recognize the enduring value of critical thinking in a rapidly changing world. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services in more than 185 countries around the world: Turnitin Feedback Studio, Clarity, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate. Protecting the value of an authentic education is at the heart of who we are.
Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines. 
Job Description 
Turnitin is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer with a strong focus on backend development, particularly in Java and serverless architectures, combined with solid frontend experience. This role is ideal for engineers passionate about building scalable distributed systems, data modeling, and delivering high-performing, reliable software solutions for our award-winning educational platform. 
As a core contributor to our shared services team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing the foundational systems that power both existing and new applications. This role is fully hands-on, requiring active involvement in coding, development, and implementation of technical solutions. You will also be called upon to lead more junior engineers and collaborate with other teams.
Responsibilities:<ul><li>
Lead and design, development, and optimization of scalable backend services using Java and serverless technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda).</li><li>
Architect and implement RESTful APIs and event-driven systems to support high-performance, distributed applications.</li><li>
Provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices.</li><li>
Contribute to the development and integration of user-facing frontend components when needed.</li><li>
Analyze and optimize existing services to enhance performance, scalability, and cost-effi ciency.</li><li>
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Architects, Product Managers, and engineering leads, to deliver innovative and impactful solutions.</li><li>
Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing.</li><li>
Oversee the implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to ensure effi cient and reliable software delivery.</li><li>
Maintain high standards of code quality through rigorous peer reviews, comprehensive testing, and adherence to industry best practices.</li><li>
Create comprehensive documentation for the developed shared components, including usage guidelines and examples.</li></ul> 

Qualifications 
Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience:<ul><li>
Over 10 years of experience in backend development with deep profi ciency in Java and extensive hands-on experience with serverless frameworks (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions).</li><li>
Solid understanding of frontend technologies, including React and Web Components, with the ability to contribute when needed.</li><li>
Expertise in designing and managing distributed systems, ensuring scalability, and advanced data modeling techniques.</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across multiple locations, including distributed teams in Europe and the USA, to deliver impactful, high-quality solutions.</li><li>
Practical expertise in cloud technologies, specifically developing serverless applications on AWS using services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, and EventBridge.</li><li>
Deep understanding of software development best practices, including design patterns, test-driven development (TDD), behavior-driven development (BDD), and clean code principles.</li><li>
Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for automated build, deployment, and testing.</li><li>
Familiarity with modern DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).</li><li>
Proven ability to conduct comprehensive system design reviews, ensuring architectural alignment, scalability, performance, and adherence to best practices.</li><li>
Proven experience as a Tech Lead, with a strong track record of mentoring and coaching junior engineers, promoting skill development, and driving adherence to best practices to ensure team growth and technical excellence.</li><li>
Exceptional collaboration skills, working effectively across cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Architects, and other engineering leads.</li><li>
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>
Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of troubleshooting and optimizing existing systems for performance, scalability, and cost effi ciency.</li><li>
Ability to make strategic technical decisions while balancing project deadlines and business goals.</li></ul>
Preferred Skills:<ul><li>
Experience with frontend technologies such as React, Angular, or Web Components is a plus.</li><li>
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, New Relic, Datadog).</li><li>
Knowledge of data modeling and working with both NoSQL databases.</li><li>
Understanding of agile methodologies, including Scrum, XP and Kanban.</li><li>
Understanding or experience with AI/ML.</li></ul> 

Additional Information 
Total Rewards @ Turnitin 
At Turnitin, we believe Total Rewards go far beyond pay. While salary, bonus, or commission are important, they&rsquo;re only part of the value you receive in exchange for your work.
Beyond compensation, you&rsquo;ll experience the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential and making a positive impact on global education. You&rsquo;ll also thrive in a culture free of politics, surrounded by humble, inclusive, and collaborative teammates.
In addition, our extrinsic rewards include generous time off and health and wellness programs that provide choice, flexibility, and a safety net for life&rsquo;s challenges. You&rsquo;ll also enjoy a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in the way that suits you best, all supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 
 
Our Values underpin everything we do.<ul><li>
Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.</li><li>
Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.</li><li>
Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin&mdash;it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.</li><li>
Action &amp; Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it&rsquo;s hard.</li><li>
One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.</li><li>
Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.</li></ul>
Global Benefits<ul><li>
Remote First Culture</li><li>
Health Care Coverage*</li><li>
Education Reimbursement*</li><li>
Competitive Paid Time Off</li><li>
Self-Care Days</li><li>
National Holidays*</li><li>
2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed</li><li>
Paid Volunteer Time*</li><li>
Charitable contribution match*</li><li>
Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*</li><li>
Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)</li><li>
Parental Leave*</li><li>
Retirement Plan with match/contribution*</li><li>varies by country</li></ul>
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad 
At Turnitin, we recognize it&rsquo;s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you&rsquo;re willing to learn and unleash your potential alongside us, join our team!
#LI-AP1</div>

Principal Software Engineer Backend Technologies, Platform (UK Remote)

<div><div>Mission</div>
<div>
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies
</div>
<div>What You'll Do</div>
<div><ul><li>Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or related UI frameworks), C#, XAML, and &mdash; when needed &mdash; C++.</li>
<li>Define and enforce best-practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase: code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.</li>
<li>Drive accessibility efforts: integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or other relevant Windows accessibility frameworks), ensure UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Windows platform.</li>
<li>Take ownership of full lifecycle of features: conception design implementation testing release maintenance. Ensure quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.</li>
<li>Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, or compatibility problems &mdash; and propose robust architectural or design solutions.</li>
</ul>
</div><div></div><div>An ideal candidate should have</div>

Required:
<ul>
<li>3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML &mdash; and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).</li>
<li>Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.</li>
<li>Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.</li>
<li>Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.</li>
<li>Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).</li>
<li>Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.</li>
<li>A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.</li>
</ul>
Preferred / Bonus:
<ul>
<li>Experience with writing automated tests for UI &mdash; unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.</li>
<li>Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).</li>
<li>Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.</li>
<li>Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.</li>
<li>Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.</li>
</ul>
What we offer
<ul>
<li>A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.</li>
<li>A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture &mdash; you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.</li>
<li>Opportunities to lead &mdash; mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).</li>
<li>Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.</li>
<li>A purpose-driven mission: building software that's reliable, accessible, and user-centered &mdash; making a real difference for people.
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Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Manchester, United Kingdom

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