Staff Software Engineer, Data [Remote in London

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.

The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. 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. 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. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. 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.

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 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 capabilities—including Workers, WebSockets, and other low‑level APIs—and experience with browser graphics technologies such as Canvas and WebGL.
• Understanding and experience of team delivery in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience building geospatial or visualization‑heavy applications.
• Experience of developing with C#.
• Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases.

Benefits:

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

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.

This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.

This role requires the employee to be hybrid, with 3 days per week working from the office in London. This job operates in an office setting. This role may require occasional travel to other Metrea offices.