Overview
Company OverviewMetrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. Metrea builds vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. Our solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond. The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that bridge the digital and physical realms, empowering operational readiness and elevating situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
Metrea is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual to join our software development team, building software solutions that provide geospatial data processing and visualisations.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the frontend development of product features, ensuring engineering decisions factor in technical debt, systems design, stability/reliability, monitoring/observability, and business need.
- Lead refactoring of complex systems or problems when warranted, making pragmatic trade-offs between perfection and technical debt aligned with business priorities.
- Lead the design process for complex technical problems or new product features.
- Debug and resolve complex software issues at speed.
- Collaborate closely with teammates, contribute to code reviews, and promote practices that improve accessibility, performance, stability, security, and overall code quality.
- Regularly mentor other engineers and assist with onboarding new engineers to the team.
- Communicate clearly the risk of technical problems to non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product, engineering and UI Design to ensure delivery against the product roadmap.
What You’ll Bring
- HND or BSc level qualification in Software Engineering or equivalent Computer Science related discipline
- 7+ years of demonstrable experience in an active software development role, developing web-based applications.
- Strong understanding of Web Platform capabilities—including Workers, WebSockets, and other low‑level APIs—and experience with browser graphics technologies such as Canvas and WebGL.
- Understanding and experience of team delivery in an Agile software development environment.
- Drive to learn constantly and further your knowledge.
- Strong organisational skills, proactive approach to task delivery and required documentation.
- Great interpersonal skills, able to confidently communicate and articulate technical issues to non-technical team members.
In addition to the above, any of the following would be beneficial:
- Experience building geospatial or visualization‑heavy applications.
- Experience of developing with C#.
- Experience using Kafka and/or Kubernetes within a service-based architecture.
- Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases.
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
- Electric Car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrificed pension scheme
- Free lunch on office days
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- 30 days annual PTO plus bank holidays
- Bonus Scheme
- Personal development opportunities
Right to Work
The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to provide right-to-work documentation. Employee must be a UK citizen. Employee must be able to have and maintain a SC Clearance as a minimum.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Mission Data Limited is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
Harwell, Oxfordshire. This role requires the employee to be hybrid, with 3 days per week working from the office in Harwell.
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting.
Travel
This role may require occasional travel to other Metrea offices.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes—Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Our Firmware creates a web-like, highly collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift priorities, and operate with trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. It supports delivering elegant, effective solutions and upholding our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
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