Future Tech Jobs Future Tech Jobs

Senior Software Engineer

Understanding Recruitment
London, United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
£125,000 – £150,000 pa

Salary

£125,000 – £150,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Posted
10 May 2026 (3 weeks ago)

Benefits

Equity
Share
Save job
Create job alert
Senior Software Engineer - Rust (Any Backend Language Accepted)

Fastest Growing Start-up in the UK | Defense | Senior Software Engineer | Rust

We are partnered with one of the UK's fastest-growing start-ups. They are a very technically focused group building cutting-edge decision-making technology.

The company's founding team has a real pedigree, with backgrounds from the UK Special Forces, Palantir and Helsing. They've been building for just over two years, and already have a lot of customers in the UK.

On-site | London

Up to 150,000 + Equity

Senior/Principal Software Engineers:

They're looking to add Senior/Principal Engineers to their team. The team are open to hiring pure backend engineers, or full-stack engineers. Their technical stack isRust, Typescript and React on the frontend.They do not require any experience in any of these technologies, the team hire on pure technical acumen rather than years of experience with one language.

Bonus point if you have built:

  • High throughput systems
  • Event sourced architectures
  • Unified event models

No sponsorship is available at this time.

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Senior Software Engineer

Sopra Steria Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1EW, United Kingdom
£55,000 – £65,000 pa Hybrid Clearance Required

Senior Software Engineer (Ground Segment)

Open Cosmos Ltd Didcot, OX11 0RL, United Kingdom
On-site

Senior Spacecraft Software Engineer

Spire Glasgow, Alba / Scotland, G2 1AL, United Kingdom

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Spire Glasgow, Alba / Scotland, G2 1AL, United Kingdom

Senior Flight Software Engineer

Open Cosmos Ltd Didcot, OX11 0RL, United Kingdom
On-site

Software Engineer / Senior QA & Test - DO

DCS Recruitment Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Hybrid

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Products

Where to Advertise Space Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Where to advertise space jobs UK in 2026: the specialist boards, agency channels and community routes that reach satellite, propulsion and launch talent. The candidate pool spans satellite engineers, propulsion specialists, mission analysts, ground segment software developers, space systems architects and commercial space professionals — a highly specific multidisciplinary community that general job boards are poorly equipped to reach. The strongest space candidates are often embedded in ESA programmes, academic research groups, UK Space Agency-funded projects or established primes, and move between roles through sector-specific networks, industry bodies and conference communities rather than mainstream platforms. This guide, published by UKSpaceJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise space industry roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

Jobs

Space Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Space Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and the UK space sector hiring trends shaping satellites, launch, Earth observation and space data careers. The UK space sector is in the middle of something that feels genuinely historic. A combination of government commitment, private capital, and technological progress has transformed Britain's position in the global space economy from a capable but secondary player into a nation with serious sovereign ambitions — and a jobs market that is expanding to match them. This is not the space industry of previous generations, defined by a small number of government agencies, a handful of prime contractors, and career pathways accessible only to a narrow band of elite engineers and scientists. The new space economy is broader, faster-moving, and more commercially driven than anything the sector has previously seen. Satellite manufacturing has been democratised by small sat technology. Launch is becoming domestic. Space data is flowing into applications across agriculture, insurance, climate monitoring, maritime, and defence at a scale that is creating entirely new categories of commercial hiring. And the defence and national security dimensions of space have elevated the sector's strategic importance to a degree that is driving sustained public investment in the talent pipeline. For job seekers, the UK space jobs market of 2026 represents an opportunity that is both more accessible and more technically demanding than at any previous point. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the sector is heading — which programmes are moving from development into operation, which technologies are defining the architecture of modern space systems, and how the definition of a space career is expanding well beyond the spacecraft engineering core toward a much wider ecosystem of roles across the full space value chain. This article breaks down what the UK space jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career at the leading edge of one of the most exciting sectors in the UK economy.

🍪 Basic, anonymous analytics (aggregate counts only, never shared) are always on. Accept to also enable third-party tools — Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, Mixpanel, Leadfeeder — which help us match you with relevant Space roles. We never sell your data or use it for cross-site advertising. See our Cookie Policy.