Full Stack Software Engineer

DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO) is an Australian/US publicly listed company focusing on RF sensing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Sensor Fusion, Electronic Warfare, Rapid Prototyping and MIL-SPEC manufacturing.

Our capabilities are used to protect Military, Government, Law Enforcement, Critical Infrastructure, Commercial and VIPs throughout the world. 

Through our team of engineers we offer customers bespoke solutions and off-the-shelf products designed to suit a variety of terrestrial, maritime or airborne platforms.

DroneShield is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with relevant experience to join the development team in Virginia. The role is primarily focused on the development and integration of the DroneShield C2 platform, DroneSentry-C2. The C2 platform combines data from multi different deployed sensor types and displays this information to the user in a meaningful way. It represents an exceptional opportunity for a result-driven individual in a fast-paced, quickly growing market.

Responsibilities, Duties, and Expectations

• Facilitate close collaboration with the US-based commercial/Ops team and DroneShield’s Australian-based technology development team. Providing valuable feedback on bugs, issues, and feature improvements.
• Develop and deploy the software platform for end-users and trials across the US.
• Build features and improvements from conceptualisation to realisation working with both backend, middleware, and frontend technologies.
• Work closely with US-based partners on integration projects, both sensors being integrated into the DroneShield C2 and the C2 being integrated as middleware for larger platforms.
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines.
• Work in the field with the operations team to deploy and certify testing and end customer sites.
• Take operational responsibility for the services that are owned by your team.
• Test new and existing features with direct access to a range of DroneShield devices. Raise and resolve bug reports.
• Comfortable running software in Linux environments.
• Familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems.
• You’re self-taught and continuously learning. You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.

• BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages, preferably JavaScript, Ruby, Python or Go.
• Experience working with at least one modern JavaScript framework, Vue.js is ideal.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, and/or security software development.
• Experience using API frameworks for integration of software-based systems.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript (ideally Vue.js as a framework).
• Experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools.
• Familiarity with Docker, Postman, GitLab, AWS is favourable.

US Citizenship is a requirement and candidates who have defence experience and clearance would be a bonus.