Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Swarm Aero is building swarming unmanned aerial vehicles and Command & Control software for autonomous aircraft networks. The Software Engineer, Frontend Lead will own and architect the frontend for Legion’s real-time C2 platform, building collaborative interfaces for aircraft control, telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, and data link management while establishing frontend standards and delivery practices.
Responsibilities
- Own and architect the frontend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
- Build real-time, collaborative interfaces for controlling large numbers of aircraft simultaneously, even when comms drop
- Design and ship new UI concepts for representing vehicle telemetry, sensor data, scheduling, crew resources, data link management, and more, much of it with no existing playbook to follow
- Set the frontend architecture, patterns, and standards that the rest of the team builds on
- Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps
Skills
- • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- • 8+ years building complex, production frontend applications, with a track record of owning frontend architecture
- • Elite UI/UX instincts and the tools to back them up
- • Deep experience building production web interfaces with React or a comparable modern framework
- • Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction for a frontend team
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
- • Experience with both immediate mode (games, simulation) and retained mode UI paradigms
- • A track record with performance-sensitive application development
- • Familiarity with video streaming protocols
- • WebGL/OpenGL experience
- • Experience with geospatial applications
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k
- PTO and paid sick leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Daily catered lunch (office)
- Paid parental leave
- Direct impact on a critical national security mission
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