Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Skyral
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Development platform for synthetic environments
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Development platform for synthetic environments
21-100 employees
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More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower every decision maker with technology.
Role
Who you are
- Comfort in operating in ambiguous, fast-changing customer environments
- Ability to engage with customers to understand their evolving requirements and collaboratively shape the technical vision
- Pragmatic decision-making: able to prioritise technical choices that align with Skyral’s objectives, balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering meaningful outcomes, not just technical outputs
- Proven expertise with at least one leading JavaScript SPA framework (React is preferred)
- Experience building web service APIs (such as a RESTful and gRPC services)
- Experience working with server-side frameworks including Express and Elysia
- Experience working in a Typescript-first codebase
- Exposure to runtimes and build tooling including NPM, Vite, Rollup, Node and Bun
- Experience of CI/CD workflows and cloud deployment technologies including GitHub Actions, Google Cloud, Argo and Kubernetes
- Experience of working as part of an Agile product development team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Software Engineer to help create and improve these solutions, and empower our users to make synthetic environments and supporting applications at the level of complexity and scale they desire
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable Skyral applications, often in situations where requirements emerge and evolve as projects progress
- Produce reusable client layers that facilitate access to other Skyral services
- Provide frontend development setup config and tooling that speeds up the development of the customer solutions teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify practical, high-impact solutions, in evolving or uncertain problem areas
- Supporting the product owner and the technical delivery manager with requirements capture, planning, backlog refinement, and stakeholder collaboration
- Collaborating with other product development and project teams across the defence business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Skyral, born from Improbable's defence division, launched in late 2023 and quickly delivered its first product for the UK Ministry of Defences. Now operating independently, its core platform, Skyral Shadow powers large-scale simulations across infrastructure and human behavior or mission planning and decision support.
The company is seeing support for its mission too, having received substantial funding in 2025 which will help it expand globally and grow its commercial footprint. With over 60% of work now outside defence, it's rapidly becoming a key player in digital twins across sectors like national security, healthcare, and infrastructure.
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Company benefits
- Enhanced parental leave: We’re proud to offer 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave at full pay
- Hybrid working: We understand that a one-size-fits all approach to work hours doesn’t suit everyone. Our hybrid working policy requires employees to spend a minimum of two days per week at our central London office. Outside this requirement, you’re empowered to work with your manager to determine a work schedule that suits your needs, whether in the office or through a hybrid model arrangement
- Unlimited paid holiday: We value and support the need to maintain a work-life balance, whether it’s taking time off during school holidays to be with your children, or simply having the flexibility to enjoy extended weekends without the stress of monitoring your remaining days off
- Dog friendly office
- Private medical & dental insurance
- Company pension
- Company swag
- Employee Assistance Programme
Company HQ
Finsbury, London, UK
Leadership
Jason Kennedy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 4 years at Improbable as a Director of Simulation Engineering and VP of Engineering. Prior to that, they spent 6 years at Raydon Corporation in several Directorial roles, and almost 8 years at ENSCO Avionics in various roles, including Staff Technical Manager.
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