Full Stack Web Engineer at Shift

Shift5 is redefining the future of onboard operational technology (OT). As a fast‑growing scale‑up, we specialize in cutting‑edge cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for OT systems across defence, aerospace, and rail. We are a team of passionate, innovative professionals who thrive in a collaborative environment, driven by a shared mission to revolutionise how fleets operate. By unlocking and democratising the vast potential of onboard OT data, we help our customers’ fleets run smarter, safer, and more efficiently.

Ready to be part of the next frontier in transportation and critical infrastructure?

• Embrace Truth and Integrity:
  Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.
• User‑Centric Focus:
  Prioritise user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.
• Collaborative & Adaptable:
  Collaborate for excellence, learn from failures and drive iterative improvements, recognising every decision’s significance.

In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to:

• Interpret requirements and design specifications and take ownership of building features from the ground up.
• Design, build, and maintain full‑stack web applications that deliver both complex data visualisations and management dashboards for Shift5 systems.
• Build robust and scalable backend systems to process, analyse, and serve data from various sources.
• Create intuitive and user‑friendly frontend interfaces using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js) to provide a robust user experience.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to integrate data models and algorithms into web applications.
• Write clean, well‑documented, scalable, extensible, testable code to ensure application quality and maintainability.
• Work cross‑functionally across Shift5 engineering teams to build applications that integrate cleanly across other Shift5 componentry.

You’ll operate in a team‑based environment with engineers, product managers, programme managers and designers to conceive, implement and shape major features. Engineers are key contributors in shaping this design process and you’ll be a major factor in generating high‑impact products that literally save lives. This role resides in our Product Engineering team and reports to our Director, Software Engineering.

• 5+ years software engineering.
• 3+ years frontend web development experience in a modern web application framework (Vue, React, Angular, NextJS).
  React preferred
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• 3+ years backend web development experience (Node.js, Java, C#, GoLang). Node.js / Type Script preferred.
• Expertise with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Demonstrated delivery of scalable, observable, supportable, reliable applications.
• Deep understanding of software engineering practices and concepts.
• Experience with end‑to‑end feature design and ownership.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to efficiently multitask and accommodate change of priorities on demand.

• Active US Government TS clearance (and willingness to maintain) or an ability to obtain one.
• MS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Cyber Intelligence, or equivalent.
• SQL Experience or experience with big data systems such as Splunk, Data Bricks, Snowflake would be highly useful.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and building complex UI projects.
• Experience with Git, familiarity with monorepos and building complex web applications within a CI environment.
• Experience working with containerised applications.
• Familiarity with working with both on‑prem and cloud‑based applications.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Base Salary: $150,000-$200,000
• Bonus program and equity in a fast‑growing startup
• Competitive medical,…