Job Description

Frontend Software Engineer - Marine industry

Location: Plymouth onsite 5 days per week

Salary: Up to £50k salary

We partner with a software engineering firm that specialises in edge-based sensor-driven cognitive artificial intelligence to deliver safety-critical marine autonomy. Drawing on decades of experience in manned and unmanned vehicle design, manufacture and operations, coupled with vast experience in automation and autonomous systems software architecture and computer vision experience.

Role:

• Reporting to the Chief Software Engineer you will work on building the frontend including UI and utilising React/Javascript.
• Perform design and development of various web applications, software products and libraries
• This is a key role really building out the customer user interface that controls a number of backend marine autonomy applications
• Write technical documents explaining procedures, functions as well as end-user operational documentation.

What are we looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a similar discipline.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript along with their respective coding practices.
• A strong understanding of backend JavaScript frameworks, such as NodeJS and ExpressJS.
• Strong debugging skills, and the ability to independently detect bugs/problems and solve them.
• Fluency with Linux and windows development environment and Docker containers.
• Knowledge of communication techniques (i.e., RestAPI, WebSockets, MQTT, etc.)
• Strong understanding of software design methodologies.