Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £36,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• A minimum of 7 years experience as a Senior Engineer
• A degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Broad understanding of software from embedded through to applications
• Experience leading multi-disciplined teams of software engineers
• Ability to develop a software architecture for complex systems from scratch
• Sound understanding of modern software methods and technologies
• Ability to maintain a system-level approach and not get lost in the detail
• Ability to develop system-level requirements and derive lower-level requirements
• Sound understanding of safety concepts and design
• Ability to interface directly with customers
• Ability to act as a technical authority
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to estimate work content and duration
• Ability to plan workload for teams and avoid overloading team members
• Ability to develop and instigate processes to ensure industry best practice
• Ability to ensure appropriate levels of software quality are achieved
• Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers
• Ability to delegate tasks
• Ability to manage resources and budgets
• Practical understanding of standards and their application
• Appreciation of cyber security and its impacts on design
• Software skills in some of the following technologies on Windows and Linux: C++, JavaScript, Python, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS, web backend servers, Web Sockets, Docker, TCP-IP/UDP, SQL or other databases, dev tools, databases, and cyber security
• Desirable exposure to IP video and video routing
• Desirable familiarity with design and testing of control software
• Desirable familiarity with systems serving real-time information via Web Sockets
• Desirable use of DDS and interfacing with it
• Desirable experience with message queues (Active MQ, Rabbit MQ, ZeroMQ)
• Desirable GUI development experience (.Net GUI framework, Qt 6.2 or previous versions)
• Desirable experience developing and debugging application software in Visual Studio (2013, 2017, 2022)
• Desirable experience building customer-facing APIs using web technologies

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement software solutions for underwater robotics applications in line with our business needs
• Demonstrate expertise and experience in software used on industrial, vehicle, and vessel systems
• Take responsibility for the delivery of projects and lead multidisciplinary teams
• Deliver technically complex software projects for subsea vehicles and associated robotic functions
• Bind inputs from several software, engineering, and support disciplines together to deliver software content for our products

Technologies:

• AI
• Backend
• CSS
• Docker
• Embedded
• Support
• JSON
• JavaScript
• Linux
• Python
• Qt
• Robotics
• SQL
• Security
• Visual Studio
• Web
• Windows
• XML
• ASP.NET
• API
• Angular
• C++
• Django
• NodeJS
• React

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We are Saab UK, part of Scandinavias largest defence company, bringing together Swedish and British innovation. We provide world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security, with a growing UK presence across eight sites and over 600 employees. Our specialisms include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. This role is part of our Saab Seaeye Underwater Robotics business in Fareham. We offer opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. The position is full time at our Fareham, Hampshire site, Saab Seaeye, Trilogy 1, Concorde Way, Segensworth.

last updated 36 week of 2026