Understanding Recruitment

Understanding Recruitment

St. Albans, London

Lead Software Engineer - St. Albans

Full-Time£100,000 - 100,000 per yearأمسUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Production experience with Rust, or contributions to production grade open source repositories.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience.
  • Experience working with Tokio or other asynchronous frameworks such as async.std or Smol.
  • Ideally, a background in a core programming language such as C, C++, or Core Java.
  • Candidates from functional backgrounds such as Scala, Erlang, or Clojure are encouraged to apply.
  • Experience developing low-latency, high throughput systems.
  • Nice to have: Experience working with drones or robotics, and working with microcontrollers.
Responsibilities:
  • Architect, build, and support reliable, high-performance systems for coordinating swarms and handling sensor data.
  • Develop streamlined communication methods and real-time data processing tools tailored for robotic platforms.
  • Work hand-in-hand with multidisciplinary teams to connect backend infrastructure with robotic applications and sensor arrays.
  • Enhance overall system efficiency, expandability, and dependability within distributed robotic setups.
Technologies:
  • Architect
  • Backend
  • Clojure
  • Erlang
  • Hardware
  • Support
  • Java
  • Robotics
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Security
  • C++

More:

We are a dynamic scale-up based in London, valued at over 2 billion Euros, specializing in aerial intelligence hardware and software. Our main focus is on the manufacturing of UAVs while developing cutting-edge software that provides actionable insights in defense, security, and professional services. We are excited to expand our Rust Engineering team, focusing on building a greenfield command and control center for unmanned systems. Join us to be part of this pioneering journey!

last updated 33 week of 2026

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About Understanding Recruitment

Understanding Recruitment

Understanding Recruitment

St. Albans

IT

Skills & Technologies

JavaC++RustScalaAIUI

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