Senior React Engineer, Maritime App

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Software : Software Platform

Senior React Engineer for a defense technology company building a full-stack web application (part of an AI-powered OS) for controlling maritime products. The role focuses on frontend architecture, best practices, and developer experience, working across the stack with a Go backend.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement architectural patterns, tools, and best practices for building components, pages, services, and apps
  2. Proactively identify pain points and opportunities to improve our dev experience and infrastructure
  3. Work across the stack (front-end, back-end, build, CI/CD) to get things done
  4. Support and mentor fellow engineers on engineering best practices, and on how to best use our tools
  5. Lead the creation of net-new apps and/or break our app down into more focused experiences

Skills

Required

  • JavaScript or TypeScript
  • React
  • Designing architectural patterns, tooling, or best practices
  • Leading engineering teams in adopting them
  • Integrating tools and libraries (build systems, component libraries, testing frameworks, monitoring) into frontend codebases and CI/CD pipelines
  • Modern backend programming languages such as Go, C++, or Rust
  • High empathy for your fellow engineers and users
  • Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience
  • U.S. Person status

Nice to have

  • Go
  • gRPC/protobuf
  • NixOS
  • AI agents to augment software development teams

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities