Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Cloud & Systems)

The Opportunity: At Skylift, we are revolutionising offshore logistics for the renewable energy industry. We deploy fleets of heavy-lift drones to execute complex, large-scale cargo delivery operations to offshore wind farms, turning missions that once took hours into minutes. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the mission-critical software that underpins these operations—from our cloud-based mission control to the real-time code executing on the drone itself.

This is a unique opportunity to solve deeply technical challenges where software has a direct physical impact. You will be responsible for designing systems where fault tolerance isn't just a goal, but a necessity, and where performance is measured in microseconds. If you are driven to build robust, high-performance systems that operate at the intersection of cloud, robotics, and logistics, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect End-to-End Systems: Lead the technical design of our comprehensive drone logistics platform, spanning cloud services, pilot interfaces, and on-drone flight control systems.
• Build Mission-Critical Software: Develop and optimise highly reliable, low-latency code that executes on our drones. This is a real-time environment where your software must perform flawlessly to ensure operational safety and success.
• Engineer for Resilience: Design and implement fault-tolerant systems that handle network interruptions, hardware failures, and other adverse conditions gracefully in challenging offshore environments.
• Drive Cloud & Frontend Development: Own major components of our cloud platform and pilot-facing applications, building scalable backend services (Go/Rust) and intuitive user interfaces (JavaScript).
• Set Technical Standards: Elevate the entire engineering team by establishing and advocating for best practices in systems architecture, code quality, testing, and CI/CD for both cloud and embedded environments.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide insightful code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship to other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex and reliable systems.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language (e.g., Rust, Go) for building performance-critical applications.
• Strong experience building and deploying cloud-native applications, including proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems principles, and building fault-tolerant services.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience with a modern frontend framework (e.g., React, Vue, SolidJS).
• A track record of technical leadership, demonstrating the ability to own projects and make critical architectural decisions with a high degree of autonomy.
• Purveyor of fine hand-whittled artisan code.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in robotics, avionics, or developing software for embedded or resource-constrained environments (RTOS).
• Familiarity with real-time communication protocols and low-latency networking.
• Background in data-intensive applications, geospatial systems, or mechatronics.
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• Specific experience with the SolidJS framework.