Lead Software Engineer - St. Albans

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