Senior Software Engineer
Chaosindustries•4h ago
United KingdomOnsite$1Full-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
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- CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators
- border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly
- stay ahead of evolving threats.
- CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel
- Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle
- London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com .
- The Role
- You’ll join a small, highly collaborative team working across London and San Francisco, building the software behind some of the world’s most advanced radar systems.
- Working alongside software, hardware
- the teams who take these systems into the field, you’ll design the backend services, data pipelines
- operator-facing applications that turn raw sensor data into decisions people can act on.
- The systems you build must be reliable, resilient, secure, and performant - enabling operators to depend on them in the environments where they matter most.
- This is a high-ownership role where you’ll influence architecture and help define the engineering foundations of a rapidly evolving platform. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy scaling distributed systems and solving hard data problems.
- What You’ll Build
- Backend Services - develop high-performance Python services that ingest, process, and distribute real-time sensor data with low latency, high reliability, and security at scale.
- Operator Interfaces - build and evolve the web applications operators use to monitor live missions and investigate what the sensors saw (TypeScript and React).
- Cloud Platform - design and build secure, scalable Azure services that power distributed radar systems, defining the infrastructure as code and instrumentation for the systems you own.
- Platform Architecture - help shape the technical direction of the platform, making architectural decisions that support new capabilities, increasing scale, and long-term maintainability.
- What We’re Looking For
- We’re looking for exceptional software engineers who are excited by solving hard technical problems and building systems that matter. You don’t need experience with every technology we use - we value strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity
- the ability to learn quickly.
- You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Enjoy building scalable backend systems and taking ownership of production services.
- Enjoy solving complex distributed systems and real-time data challenges.
- Are eager to learn new technologies and adapt to new technical domains.
- Care deeply about reliability, security, and scalability.
- Get real leverage from AI coding tools, with a considered view on what to delegate to them and what not to.
- Communicate well and enjoy collaborating across teams.
- Are motivated by building technology with meaningful real-world impact.
- Requirements
- Right to work in the UK.
- Willingness to travel. You’ll be based in our Soho office in London, but most of the team is in San Francisco - expect to co-locate there for around a week each quarter.
- Why CHAOS?
- Health Benefits: private medical, dental and vision benefits (for employees & dependents) will be 100% paid for by the company
- Additional benefits : 5% pension match
- Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
- Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices
- The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity
- benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.
- Recruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or compensated.
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Required skills
PythonTypeScriptReactAzureDistributed SystemsSecurity