HIRING NOW: Technical Lead – Full Stack Developer

About Us

Our mission is to save lives by redefining exceptional human performance and unlocking every individual’s full potential. Our vision is to transform the way people are trained by unlocking the untapped resource of human performance data in simulation and training.

We envision a future where simulation is within arms reach of anyone who needs it, and individuals can access personalised, adaptive learning environments, so that they can develop the skills they need to flourish.

Our customers are some of the biggest aerospace, defence and renewable energy companies in the world. We work closely with them to deliver cutting edge simulation solutions to their end users.

We believe in creating shared value for our customers, investors, employees and community by adopting the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ and the B Corporation constitution. This means our company has a legal obligation to balance sustainable profit, with sustainability for people and the planet.

Purpose of role:

Our HEAT product enables our customers to capture, store, analyse and present data insights on trainee performance during simulation sessions. The HEAT platform is integrated with a variety of client simulations to enhance training outcomes.

This role at VRAI will lead the technical research and development of the HEAT product, and ensure its reliability for our customers.

Main Responsibilities:

You will be joining the Dev team being responsible for leading backend & front end development and maintenance of HEAT.

You should be able to:

●  Lead a team towards a common technical goal

●  Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget

●  Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code

●  Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments

●  Identifying risks and technical challenges and forming contingency plans as soon as

possible

●  Design both client and server-side architecture

●  Build front-end applications that have been designed by our product experience team

●  Develop and manage efficient and effective databases

●  Write effective APIs for a range of client requirements

●  Test development to achieve software correctness

●  Troubleshoot, debug support and upgrade software deployments

●  Create or adopt best in class security and data protection settings

●  Write accessible, comprehensive technical documentation and user guides

●  Work with data scientists and analysts to constantly improve software and services

Requirements/Qualifications to the role:

●  Lead or senior dev experience

●  5+ years experience as a Microsoft Azure developer

●  Able to work under pressure

●  You are up to date with the latest software development practices

●  Experience with API development in .NET

●  Experience with CI/CD Pipelines like Github Actions, AzureDevOps, Jenkins, or others

●  Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Arm/Bicep templates

●  Experience using React front end development

●  Good understanding of networking and security in both software development and

infrastructure

●  Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture including Microservices

●  Experience with code versioning tools like github and different branching strategies

●  Excellent communication and team working skills

●  Degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Bonus Points:

●  Experience developing distributed on-prem solutions

●  Experience designing data intensive applications

●  Experience with containers and container orchestration

●  Experience in related industries such as gaming, simulation, esports, fitness etc

●  Participated in high profile open source projects

Characteristics that are important for the role:

●  Take responsibility – own your work either when it succeeds or fails

●  Good problem solving skills, innovative, creative, proactive, collaborative

●  Comfortable being customer facing, enjoy relationship building

●  Be agile, iterate, always be delivering

Benefits:

●  Competitive benefits package regularly benchmarked against the market

●  Talent dense & cognitively diverse team – engineers, scientists, designers etc

●  Flexitime & Hybrid working

●  Private medical insurance + mental health support

●  Pension contribution

●  Sick pay

●  5G SIM card

●  Hardware packaged