Senior Full Stack 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
- 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
- Expert understanding and Experience leading with one JavaScript SPA framework (React is preferred) with its associated libraries (e.g. Redux, RxJS) and tooling (e.g. Webpack/Rollup, Jest, Yarn)
- Hands-on experience working with Node.js and its associated frameworks (Express, NestJS, Gatsby) for the development of websites and APIs
- Proficiency with containerized deployments (Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience configuring and deploying and optimising database technologies (relational and document-based , Postgress would be ideal)
- Experience in engineering back-end microservice architectures and distributed platform technologies (Kafka preferred), as well as working with RESTful and gRPC services
- Experience with implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, including git branching, automated testing and the establishment of automated deployment pipelines
- Adopting an engineering delivery mindset, capable of making challenging decisions and prioritising technical choices to align with Skyral’s objectives
What the job involves
- We are a multi-disciplinary team working together to build customer solutions from Core components (including an application development kit, base models that come with the platform, tools to help modellers build models more quickly and tools to help store, manage and process data) and customised data and integrations
- 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
- Develop and maintain server-side logic and APIs
- Develop reusable client-side layers that streamline access to other Skyral services, promoting efficiency and modularity in the software architecture
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify practical, high-impact solutions, in evolving or uncertain problem areas
- Contribute across the stack — working on back-end services, data architectures, and front-end web applications as required
- Set up, develop and maintain project pipelines and infrastructure
- Design, implement and optimise database schemas and manage data storage solutions
- Optimising our use of Kafka in processing simulation outputs including working on publishers and consumers
- Review engineer's work to enable the highest quality of code to be delivered for all projects
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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