Staff Software Engineer Frontend

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR electronic warfare secure communications aerial refuelling special air missions aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing building and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service spanning people finance platform operations legal and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas EMEA and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects not just equipment. By owning the full stack from the lab to the field we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. Its a fast-moving intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility work on problems that matter and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington DC with facilities across the United States the United Kingdom as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

TheDigital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S)is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domainsincluding air maritime and space.

Position Summary

Metrea is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual to join our software development team building software solutions that provide geospatial data processing and visualisations.

What Youll Do

Lead the frontend development of product features ensuring appropriate engineering decisions are made to factor in technical debt systems design stability/reliability monitoring/observability and business need
Lead refactoring of complex systems or problems when it is warranted. Making pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt which align with the business priorities
Lead the design process for complex technical problems or new product features
Debug and resolve complex software issues at speed
Collaborate closely with your teammates including being a significant contributor to code reviews promoting good practices which will improve accessibility performance stability security and overall quality of the code
Regularly mentor other less experienced engineers and help with onboarding new engineers to your team
Communicate clearly and articulately the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders
Collaborate regularly and effectively with product engineering and UI Design to ensure we maintain our delivery against the product roadmap

What You Bring

HND or BSc level qualification in Software Engineering or equivalent Computer Science related discipline
7 years of demonstrable experience in an active software development role developing web-based applications
Strong understanding of Web Platform capabilitiesincluding Workers WebSockets and other lowlevel APIsand experience with browser graphics technologies such as Canvas and WebGL
Understanding and experience of team delivery in an Agile software development environment
Drive to learn constantly and further your knowledge
Strong organisational skills proactive approach to task delivery and required documentation
Great interpersonal skills able to confidently communicate and articulate technical issues to non-technical team members

In addition to the above any of the following would be beneficial:

Experience building geospatial or visualizationheavy applications
Experience of developing with C#
Experience using Kafka and/or Kubernetes within a service-based architecture
Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrificed pension scheme
• Free lunch on office days
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h
• Bonus Scheme
• Personal development opportunities

Equal Opportunities Statement

Metrea Mission Data Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to6:00p.m. Hours and work shifts may changein accordance withdepartment and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees maybe requiredto work over40hours per week with approval from the department manager.

Work Location

Hammersmith London. This role requires the employee to be hybrid with 3 days per week working from the office in London.

Work Environment

This job operates in an office setting

Travel

This role may require occasional travel to other Metrea offices.