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Lead Javascript Engineer

Improbable believes in a future where new, virtual worlds will augment human experience and become as meaningful, lasting and rich as the physical world. We call this the Multiversal Self.

Our platform, SpatialOS, lets developers transcend the limits of regular computation, allowing swarms of servers running in the cloud to cooperate in order to simulate worlds far larger and more complex than any single server could.

At Improbable, you are surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them, and who compel you to improve yourself. We’re motivated by the fulfilment of solving hard problems to achieve something profound and transformative.

will be to form and technically lead a new team, with immediate opportunity for impact, on a brand new platform for decision making and virtual training.

You will be building a new class of application, critical to the Improbable Realities vision, significantly enhancing the security of nation states. Your users will be key figures in our national security organisations; with the tooling we build vastly increasing the capabilities for planning and meeting the threats of the modern world.

Technical leadership at Improbable does not include direct line management but rather focusses on technical architecture, mentoring, developing the skills of the division and working with other technical leads to think about product direction, delivery and best practice.

You will have the opportunity to contribute in the prototyping, iteration and design of this project from its earliest point, leveraging a modern stack including TypeScript, Golang, React, gRPC and Styled Components.

You will help pioneer techniques for simulation playback, mapping capabilities, turn-based wargaming and much more. While a lot of the work will focus on the front-end architecture and capability, there is significant work on our back-end services written in Go and Java.

Areas for Impact

• Leading a critical component of a strategic project for the UK government, owning parts of our core offering and expanding it to become a core platform offering.
• Responsibility for delivering key functionality for a new application that will rapidly change the nature of wargaming and course-of-action analysis for a new generation of tacticians and commanders
• Building a highly configurable, high performant product, connecting multiples of users in a reliable fashion.
• Architecting and building scalable and reusable components in Javascript and Golang for others engineers to adapt and use as our customer base expands
• Leading system design allowing for performant geospatial data rendering and analysis; we’re taking cutting edge mapping data, and complex geospatial models and allowing decision makers in government to interact with them.
• Senior leadership in a cross-functional team of designers, UX researchers and engineers to build highly customisable, intuitive applications
• Examples of work that we've done in the past can be found on our engineering blog here: https://improbable.io/blog/grpc-web-moving-past-restjson-towards-type-safe-web-apis

We’d like to hear if you if you identify with ANY of the following:

• Experience architecting and leading performant, high-performance Full Stack applications (bonus points for Typescript, Golang, Java etc)
• Strength across the stack; we leverage Golang extensively but welcome a range of OO languages and experiences
• A real passion and ability to mentor developers and share your knowledge
• Proficient with Typescript (although your experience may be rooted in Javascript and frameworks like Angular or Vue; that’s fine by us!)
• Fluency with React (or similar frameworks) on data-intensive web applications
• Read more about our division here: http://bit.ly/2lt8DnI
• Nb: While we think the above experience could be important, we can’t predict the future and so we’re keen to hear from applicants that believe they have valuable experience. If you identify with the team & mission, but not all of the suggestions, then please still apply!!

The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Improbable are made up of an incredible range of talented people. Improbable is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.