Ground Software Engineer

Join an ambitious, fast-scaling defence start-up building cutting-edge autonomous systems with real-world impact. This is an opportunity to take ownership of mission-critical software, solve complex challenges across cloud infrastructure, networking, and hardware integration, and help shape the technology underpinning next-generation defence capabilities. Expect high autonomy, rapid execution, and the chance to make a tangible impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software supporting remote hardware systems, including data ingestion, processing, visualisation, and secure control workflows

• Build operator-facing applications, dashboards, and tools to improve system visibility and usability

• Develop automation for routine operations, scheduled activities, and alerting to reduce manual intervention

• Deploy and maintain cloud-hosted software, including containerised services, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure as code

• Support integration with external hardware, communications equipment, and network interfaces

• Configure and validate third-party connectivity services, ensuring reliable end-to-end data flow between remote systems and cloud infrastructure

• Monitor application, infrastructure, and network health using observability and diagnostic tools

• Develop and execute software validation procedures using simulators, test environments, and integration test setups

• Diagnose and resolve issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and connected systems

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the reliability and availability of operational systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining software services, APIs, or operational applications

• Experience deploying and operating cloud-based software, ideally using AWS, Kubernetes, and automated delivery pipelines

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, including routing, VPNs, and secure connectivity

• Experience integrating software with external hardware, communications systems, or network-connected equipment

• Familiarity with third-party infrastructure or connectivity services and end-to-end system integration

• Experience building services that process real-time or high-volume data and interact with relational or time-series databases

• Comfortable working in Linux environments and using command-line tools

• Strong programming and scripting skills; Python or C++ experience, ideally

• Familiarity with Git, Docker, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices

• Experience supporting distributed systems or fleets of connected devices is advantageous

This person will play a key role in scaling a world-first product from initial launch to global deployment. Apply now with a resume.