Senior Frontend Engineer - Lead UAS Flight Platform

Callen-Lenz; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme via Royal London

Share Incentive Plan

Green Car Scheme

Life assurance (6x salary)

Income protection 75%

Private Health Insurance

Private Dental Insurance

Training & development opportunities

Volunteer day per year

Professional membership reimbursed

Job summary

Callen-Lenz in Salisbury, UK, is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to lead the development of flight control and ground station software using modern web technologies. You will drive frontend projects, collaborate across teams and deliver within milestones.

Salary £50,000 - £60,000, full-time, on-site in Salisbury. The role requires a degree in computing, strong React/JavaScript skills, and experience with API integration, code reviews and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a computing related subject.
• Proven experience in at least one modern JavaScript library, e.g. React.
• Expert in cross-browser and device compatibility.
• Ability to use the command line with tools including Node.js and NPM.
• Experience collaborating with a software team using version control tools such as GitHub.
• Ability to handle data via APIs e.g. Rest.
• Experience reviewing the code of other engineers using pull or merge requests.
• Good working knowledge of styling preprocessors e.g. SASS.
• Ability to write vanilla UI code including HTML, CSS and JavaScript without relying on frameworks such as Bootstrap.
• Significant experience working as a Front End Engineer on complex web-based projects.
• Collaborating in a team using issue tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence and CI/CD.
• Creating new software features from user stories and meeting all acceptance criteria.
• Mentoring and coaching junior software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership of Frontend software projects.
• Write robust, efficient and testable Front End Code using JavaScript, HTML, CSS and other modern web technologies.
• Lead a team to deliver software releases iteratively to milestones and/or deadlines.
• Help estimate and refine software development tasks.
• Ensure code quality is maintained by contributing to code reviews.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Skills

React

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Node.js

NPM

GitHub

REST APIs

Code Reviews

SASS

Vanilla JS

JIRA/Confluence

CI/CD

Mentoring

Education

Bachelors in Computing/Related

Tools

GitHub

JIRA

Confluence

CI/CD

Node.js

NPM

Job description

Callen-Lenz in Salisbury, UK, is seeking a Frontend Software Engineer to lead the development of flight control and ground station software using modern web technologies. You will drive frontend projects, collaborate across teams and deliver within milestones.

Salary £50,000 - £60,000, full-time, on-site in Salisbury. The role requires a degree in computing, strong React/JavaScript skills, and experience with API integration, code reviews and CI/CD.