Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Group: D&S Capability: Engineering
Level: S2
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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 develop an understanding of the appropriate trade‑offs required based on the functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Collaborate closely with 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 the 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 the team, and effectively elevate issues to ensure we’re accurately tracking our delivery against the product roadmap.

• 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 such as 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.

• Experience working on geospatial visualisation products.
• Experience developing with C#.
• Experience using Kafka and/or Kubernetes within a service‑based architecture.
• Experience working with relational and/or non‑relational databases.

• Private Medical Insurance
• Subsidised gym membership / plans through Wellhub
• Electric Car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• £1500 Training Allowance
• 30 days annual PTO plus bank holidays
• Eye Tests

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.

The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right‑to‑work documentation. Employee must be a UK citizen. Employee must be able to have and maintain an SC Clearance as a minimum.

Harwell. This role may require occasional travel to other Metrea UK offices.