Lead Software Engineer
Understanding Recruitment
Overview
In this role you will contribute to a fast-growing defense-tech startup building cutting-edge decision-making technology. You will integrate with a technically focused team that values problem-solving ability over language experience. The work spans backend and potentially full-stack efforts, leveraging a stack including Rust, Typescript, and React. You will join on-site in London, with equity opportunities and a performance-driven culture. This is an opportunity to shape scalable systems that inform critical decisions at pace.
Pay / Benefits- equity
- on-site in London
- Develop and maintain backend services; collaborate across cross-functional teams
- Contribute to high-throughput system design and performance optimization
- Support full-stack work when needed on frontend integrations
- Participate in architectural decisions for event-driven or unified event models
- Deliver high-quality code and participate in code reviews
- problem-solving
- collaboration
- adaptability
- Rust
- Typescript
- React
Reference: WJ-747_31186677 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:10 PM