TypeScript Software Engineer - Well-Backed Defence Start-Up - London
TypeScript Software Engineer required to join a very well-backed defence start-up focused on making industrial production faster, more scalable, and more sustainable. You will join a lean but elite team that is looking to triple in size over the next 12 months. You will work across the stack - infrastructure, backend, data, and automation - and help design resilient systems that operate in demanding, real-world conditions. This is a high-ownership role for engineers who want to move fast, make real decisions, and see their work running in production environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and develop critical systems in TypeScript and React for automation, live data processing, and operator-facing tools
- Rapidly deploy, test, and improve software running in production environments
- Engineer highly reliable, high-performance systems for mission-critical use cases
- Own projects end-to-end across infrastructure, backend services, data/ML systems, and observability
About You:
- Exceptional coding skills in TypeScript and React
- Experience with DevOps, cloud infra, and deploying software in production environments
- Can move comfortably across infrastructure, backend, data and automation
- Proven ability to lead projects
- Understanding of hardware/software integration and love solving hard technical challenges
- Thrive in high autonomy, high impact environments
Preferable Skills:
- Data engineering experience
- Start-up or 0 to 1 product experience
Why Join
- Build software that directly powers physical production
- Make a real-world impact
- Join early and help define both the product and the engineering culture
- Work with a mission-driven, high-calibre team
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
This role is for exceptional engineers who are motivated by ownership, urgency and execution in a fast-paced start-up environment. If you want to commit fully to building something real and important, get in touch.
TypeScript Software Engineer - Well-Backed Defence Start-Up - London
