Job Specifications
Title: Software Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Group: D&S Capability: Engineering
Level: S2
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Company Overview
Metrea 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.
Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Group Overview
The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate 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.
Role And Responsibilities
Write high quality, and well tested code and documentation in-line with our engineering principles.
Balance short term needs against long term stability when responding to incidents or production issues.
Contribute to the overall design of the product and develops an understanding of the appropriate trade-offs required based on the functional and non-functional requirements.
Collaborate closely with your teammates, including regularly contributing to code reviews, to promote good practices which will improve accessibility, performance, stability, security and overall quality of the code.
Regularly mentor other less experienced engineers and help with on-boarding new engineers to your team.
Examine existing code and identify opportunities for improvement.
Adhere to our Ways of Working when delivering on assigned tasks.
Communicate progress regularly and clearly with your team, and effectively escalate issues to ensure we’re accurately tracking our delivery against the product roadmap.
Skills And Experience
HND or BSc level qualification in Software Engineering or equivalent Computer Science related discipline
2+ years of demonstrable experience in an active software development role, developing web-based applications.
Strong understanding and practical experience of web development using JavaScript Frameworks e.g. React/Angular.
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 working on geospatial visualisation products.
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.
Our Culture
Metrea’s single core value, “rooted in humility,” is supported by four key attributes: entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning, and over-deliver. These attributes, combined, form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. We explore these attributes during the hiring process when we grow our teams and continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for.
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
£1500 Training Allowance
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Eye Tests
Right to Work
The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
Employee must be a UK citizen.
Employee must be able to have and maintain a SC Clearance as a minimum.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
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About the Company
Metrea, formerly Meta Aerospace, offers a deep stack of defense capabilities and services for our customers and partners, allowing them to anticipate, secure, and defend their interests in a rapidly changing problem space. We architect cutting-edge solutions across a wide variety of missions from ISR services, to multi-mission electromagnetic technologies, to simulations applications.
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