Key skills
JavaScriptNode.jsReactTypeScriptC++CAI
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the development of the populAI web application
- TypeScript/React front-end, Node.js services and REST APIs
- used by SimOps operators to configure, control and monitor the simulation.
- Work with UX designers to design the interfaces operators use to issue complex commands across thousands of simulated entities and surface the current state of a running simulation clearly under pressure.
- Extend the social media authoring and monitoring toolset that drives simulated public sentiment and content in response to in-simulation events.
- Build the macro and scripting tooling operators use to design large scripted set pieces across a simulated scenario.
- Contribute to the C++ simulation engine when features cross the web/sim boundary, working alongside simulation specialists.
- Collaborate with Product and defence stakeholders to turn customer problems into effective operator experiences.
- Mentor and upskill teammates in modern React, TypeScript and Node.js practices, raising the web engineering bar across the team.
- Support populAI deployments on-site at customer exercises, hackathons and industry events, and bring what you learn back into the product.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building complex web applications with React, TypeScript and Node.js.
- Track record of delivering non-trivial UI
- real-time data, dense information surfaces, or visualisations where clarity is the product.
- Experience designing and building REST APIs and service layers that back a complex web application.
- Ability to move comfortably between languages and layers of the stack, including contributing to C++ when a feature crosses the web/sim boundary.
- A communicative, proactive style
- visible in discussions, willing to challenge and be challenged, and able to raise the bar for the engineers around you.
- A product engineering mindset: energised by understanding customer problems and shipping things that create real value.
- Comfortable multiplying yourself with AI-assisted development workflows.
- Able to obtain and maintain UK Security Vetted status to at least SC level.
- Prepared to attend our office in Shoreditch at least once a week.
Tech Stack
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- React
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Hybrid working with 1 day per week in our fantastic office in Shoreditch, London
- Private Health Insurance
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave
- 3 extra days off at Christmas (on top of our standard 25)
- L&D budget
- Regularly scheduled socials
- Share options