Aviation Software Engineer - Rust & Flutter, Remote-First, London

Building innovative, robust software harness AI for the aviation sector

London / Mostly Remote; £40k - £100k DoE

This London based startup is tackling tough challenges in the aviation sector through innovative software solutions. They have sector expertise through their founders, and with venture investment already secured, they are growing their team and are looking for top rated software developer contributors to join their team.

As their latest team member, you will contribute to the build and scaling of mission-critical products, supporting complex real-world operational workflows. You will collaborate with product and operational stakeholders, and understand the importance of a distributed and federated architecture.

• You are smart, demonstrated through academic excellence (likely top grades at A-level / IB and a 1st class STEM degree from a top 10 ranked UK university).
• You are not just interested in software development, you have been programming in different languages for fun (likely since a child), and can evidence substantial projects and code.
• For recent graduates, you have relevant software internship experience and interesting projects to discuss. For experienced applicants, you have worked on sophisticated software that has shipped that is mission-critical, uses modern software methodologies and you are able to delve into the depths of it to describe its characteristics.
• Strong software engineering skills and aptitude to pick up new languages. The company’s tech stack is Rust, Flutter / Dart, and Postgres; experience with these is highly beneficial. Additionally, any exposure with gRPC, Arrow, Prometheus, Grafana, or Docker would be desirable.
• As the sector is in aviation, any personal interest in this evident through flying lessons, flight simulators etc would be nice.

Offices are based in London (Hammersmith area) although this is a remote‑first company. Expectations are that you minimally will be in the office a few days per month, with at least one week per quarter in the office.

Candidates must have full, unrestricted rights to work in the UK. No sponsorship is available.

Please apply (quoting ref: CV27633) only if you are eligible to live and work in the UK. By submitting your details you certify that the information you provide is accurate.