Software Engineer, Fullstack

You will help architect the frontend for Legion's Command & Control platform, which lets a single operator plan, direct, and execute missions across a networked swarm of heterogeneous aircraft in real time. This involves building distributed real-time infrastructure, designing new UI concepts for telemetry and sensor data, and owning full stack features end to end. The role focuses on creating the interface that controls the largest drone swarm on the planet.

Responsibilities

• Help architect the frontend for a C2 system directing swarms of heterogeneous aircraft
• Build distributed, collaborative real-time infrastructure 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
• Own full stack features end to end, from design through deployment
• Ship early, ship often, backed by strong CI/CD, QA, and DevSecOps

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years building complex full stack applications with real frontend and backend depth
• Strong UI/UX instincts and the tools to back them up
• Built production web interfaces with React or a comparable modern framework

Nice to have

• 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
• Working fluency in C++
• Experience with geospatial applications

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company
• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
• 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
• A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems