Senior Software Engineer

Forterra is a company focused on transforming the battlefield through autonomous systems. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver mission capabilities through user interface software, collaborating with customers and partners to develop production-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

• You are an accelerator: you will rapidly prototype and mature operator-facing mission capabilities to support customer evaluations, demonstrations, and early operational deployments
• You are a technical leader: you will work with senior stakeholders, mentor and develop junior engineers, and contribute to the development of technical strategy

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience developing production systems for complex or safety-critical environments within defense
• Strong expertise in C++ and Python, with demonstrated experience building user-facing applications leveraging modern web technologies (Node, React)
• Experience delivering user-facing applications, including UI-driven workflows, operator tools, and mission planning systems
• Technical leadership experience with proven ability to own complex features or subsystems end-to-end, from requirements through field deployment, while collaborating across teams and developing junior engineers
• Demonstrated success integrating in-house and third-party developed software components into cohesive, operator-ready capabilities
• Willing and able to validate solutions in real operational environments, working shoulder-to-shoulder with users during field tests, exercises, and demonstrations to rapidly iterate and harden capabilities. Prior Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) experience is a significant attribute
• Experience developing mission-oriented user interfaces, command-and-control tools, or operator-facing software for defense, robotics, or other autonomous systems
• Familiarity with distributed systems, extensibility, and service-oriented architectures, particularly as they relate to UI-driven mission workflows
• Experience with modern UI frameworks or visualization technologies used in operational or industrial software (specific frameworks optional)
• U.S. security clearance eligibility