Full Stack Software Engineer

Minerva Defence; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options vesting over three years

Bupa private medical insurance

6% employer pension contribution

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Enhanced mat/pat leave

Enterprise level AI tooling

Relocation support/home office budget

Job summary

Minerva Defence in the United Kingdom is seeking a capable full‑stack software engineer to own end‑to‑end feature development from frontend to backend, embedded, ML or networking. You will design, implement, test and ship features used by frontline operators, taking responsibility across the stack.

You will join a small, focused team building software, hardware and networking for unmanned systems, with opportunities to explore new areas and deploy reliable updates in real‑world environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping production software at a high standard.
• Solid grounding in backend and frontend development.
• Strong understanding of devops.
• Willingness to expand your skillset into new areas if required.
• Willingness to be involved in field testing of features.

Responsibilities

• Take a lead on developing new features based on customer feedback or Minerva products.
• Work across the full stack including backend, frontend, embedded, networking or ML.
• Ensure reliable, robust feature updates that improve operational output.

Skills

Production software

Backend development

Frontend development

DevOps

Field testing

Willingness to learn

Tools

Linux

Edge ML

Cyber-security

Job description

As a full stack software engineer with Minerva you will be responsible for taking feature requests from frontline users and designing, implementing, testing and shipping them. We are looking for engineers who are comfortable taking full ownership of this process across the whole stack; whether that is backend, frontend, embedded, ML or networking.

Minerva Defence is one of the fastest-growing defence technology companies in Europe. We create the software, hardware and networking that make unmanned systems effective on the modern battlefield, all ideated, designed and manufactured end-to-end in the UK, and in active use today. We are deliberately low-profile: a team of around 70, small in headcount and outsized in effect. We look for people who are not just talented but genuinely committed to the work, the team, and the purpose behind it.

You will work directly on products used by large numbers of frontline operators on a daily basis. You will be responsible for implementing features to improve their operational output, whether direct user requests or ideas of your own. We expect our full stack engineers to take complete ownership of the features they write, across implementation, field testing and deployment. As a result, we are looking for candidates who are comfortable across the full stack, including networking and lower-level work, and who are willing to jump into learning about new areas they are less familiar with if that’s what is needed to get the job done in a reliable way.

Responsibilities

• Take a lead on developing new features based on customer feedback, or novel Minerva products.
• Work across the full stack, whether that’s backend (largely Python), frontend, embedded, networking or ML.
• Do whatever it takes to ensure our users get reliable, robust feature updates which improve their operational output in a timely fashion.

Requirements

Minimum:

• Proven experience shipping production software at a high standard
• A solid grounding in backend and frontend development
• A strong understanding of devops
• Willingness to expand your skillset into new areas, if that is what is required.
• Willingness to be involved in field testing of the features you own

Preferred:

• Experience with Linux and lower-level languages
• Experience with networking and cyber-security
• Experience with deploying and optimising machine learning models on edge devices

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation including;

• Share options vesting over three years
• Bupa private medical insurance
• 6% employer pension contribution
• 25 days leave plus bank holidays
• Enhanced mat/pat leave
• Enterprise level AI tooling
• Relocation support/home office budget