Senior Software Engineer
Builds and owns frontend for SkyNav mission planning and ground control app using React and ElectronJS, creating intuitive UIs for maps, telemetry, and real-time aircraft data visualization. Requires 5+ years frontend experience, JavaScript proficiency, and cross-functional collaboration in fast-paced autonomy environment.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Own the frontend development of SkyNav, our mission planner and ground control application.
- Design and implement intuitive, high performance user interfaces for mission planning, monitoring, and visualization.
- Build rich, interactive experiences for maps, timelines, telemetry, and geospatial data.
- Work closely with product and flight teams to iterate quickly based on operator feedback from live, in the field and forward deployed missions, including time spent at flight test ranges and customer sites.
- Collaborate closely with autonomy, GNC, flight operations, and backend engineers to translate real world requirements into usable operator interfaces.
- Improve frontend architecture, performance, reliability, and maintainability as SkyNav scales.
- Contribute to UX, interaction patterns, and technical direction for operator facing tools.
- Participate in code reviews and help raise the frontend engineering bar across the team.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily focused on frontend development.
- Strong experience building complex, stateful user interfaces with React.
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience building large scale frontend applications.
- Proven experience shipping a production desktop application using ElectronJS.
- Experience building mission planning, mapping, or visualization heavy applications, including geospatial or 3D components.
- Working proficiency in Python and experience collaborating with backend and autonomy systems.
- Experience working with real time data, operator facing tools, and reliability critical interfaces.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including system design, testing, and maintainable architecture.
- Ability to work cross functionally with autonomy, flight operations, and hardware teams in a fast moving environment.
Bonus Points
- Experience managing complex frontend application state using MobX.
- Experience with geospatial or 3D visualization libraries such as CesiumJS, Three.js, or similar.
- Background in mission planning, mapping, robotics, autonomy, or aviation related software.
- Familiarity with real time systems, telemetry visualization, or control interfaces.
- Experience building operator facing software where clarity and reliability matter more than visual polish.
- Startup experience shipping production software with real users and real consequences.
Skills
React, JavaScript, Electronjs, Python, Mobx, Cesiumjs, Three.Js, Geospatial Visualization
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