Senior Frontend Engineer — Real-Time Geospatial UI

KBR, Inc; Beavercreek, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K plan with company match

Flexible work schedule

Job summary

KBR, Inc. in Ohio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain our front-end situational awareness and planning tool suite, spanning 3D geospatial interfaces and real-time data services.

The role involves building responsive UIs with React, TypeScript, Next.js and Ant Design, plus backend APIs with Node.js, while ensuring reliability in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and JavaScript.
• Experience building production React applications.
• Experience designing backend services and APIs with Node.js.
• Experience with MongoDB, Postgres, ArangoDB or similar databases.
• Ability to work across frontend, backend, data, and deployment concerns.
• Experience writing maintainable, tested, production-quality code.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, logging, and diagnostics.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems across multiple services.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new common operating picture tools, workflows, and platform capabilities.
• Develop responsive, accessible user interfaces using React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Ant Design.
• Build and maintain interactive 2D and 3D geospatial experiences using CesiumJS, ground data, air data, satellite data, terrain, imagery, and vector layers.
• Extend the framework’s modular tool architecture, including dynamic tool loading, configuration, docking layouts, and RPC-based communication.
• Develop backend APIs and supporting services using Node.js, Fastify, Express, TypeScript, REST, and server‑sent events.
• Integrate real‑time operational data from multiple sources, including tracking, sensor, communications, environmental, and situational awareness systems.
• Design and optimize client‑side and server‑side data flows for real‑time, historical, and time‑windowed geospatial data.
• Work with MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, IndexedDB, and Dexie‑based offline data stores.
• Implement synchronization, caching, retry, batching, idempotency, and offline/online reconciliation strategies.
• Build software that functions reliably in disconnected, degraded, and bandwidth‑constrained environments.
• Contribute to Electron desktop packaging, deployment, and local service integration.
• Improve system performance, observability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering planning.
• Create automated tests and maintain type‑checking, linting, build, and release quality gates.
• Collaborate with product owners, domain experts, operators, and other engineers to translate operational needs into usable software.

Job description

KBR, Inc. in Ohio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain our front-end situational awareness and planning tool suite, spanning 3D geospatial interfaces and real-time data services.

The role involves building responsive UIs with React, TypeScript, Next.js and Ant Design, plus backend APIs with Node.js, while ensuring reliability in disconnected or bandwidth-constrained environments.