Department: Product
Location: Reading (Hybrid)

About Altitude Angel

The end of 2024 marked a decade of Altitude Angel – a journey driven by innovation, collaboration and a shared vision of shaping future skies with the safe and unsegregated integration of uncrewed aviation.

Since the beginnings in 2014, we’ve transformed the landscape of drone and airspace management, delivering future proof solutions to connect skies and communities safely and efficiently.

By laying the foundations for the safe integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into shared airspace, we’ve paved the way for the future of advanced air mobility (AAM).

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Altitude Angel, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of aviation technology. You will design and build robust, scalable systems that power our world-leading Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) platform, enabling the safe integration of drones into airspace.

We are looking for a talented individual who is passionate about engineering solutions, not just developing code. You will have the opportunity to innovate, solve complex challenges, collaborate with a talented team, and play a hands-on role in delivering tomorrow’s skies.

What You will Do

• Design, engineer and test high-quality, highly-scalable solutions to complex problems
• Effectively communicate status, progress and risk for all deliverables undertaken
• You will support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release, and support) whilst also ensuring our applications meet quality standards and striving to constantly innovate app functionality and design
• Consistently deliver code of a high-standard and on-time
• Support our drive for continuous improvement across technology, process and personnel
• Maintain and improve documentation
• Option of team leadership and line management

Requirements

What You will Bring

• Commercial C# experience
• Experience with working with containerized applications
• Experience in supporting and troubleshooting production applications
• Experience with GIT source control
• Experience with Typescript
• A vocal, pragmatic and experienced presence in a scrum team
  

Desirable

• Experience with cloud services
• Experience in team leadership/scrum-mastering
• Experience with release processes and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with project tracking tools such as Azure DevOps
  

Our Stack

• .NET 8
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Azure SQL
• Azure CosmosDB
• PostgreSQL
• Vue.js
• Azure Monitor & Application Insights
• Prometheus/Grafana
• Azure DevOps

Who You Are?

• Creative problem-solver who thrives on a challenge
• Passionate about remaining up to date with concepts and best practices for coding our API first, cloud-based apps and services
• You have excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
• You are a clear, well organised logical thinker with the ability to respond to dynamic situations when under pressure, applying the same clear, logical thinking

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

At Altitude Angel we are dedicated to creating a positive working environment which empowers our employees to be the best version of themselves. Through personalised Career Development Plans and generous home/work life-balance considerations, we support our team to work in the best way for them.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Company Pension Scheme
• Cyclescheme
• Employee referral scheme
• Quarterly team socials
  

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Altitude Angel

Here at Altitude Angel we are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness in line with our mission to safely and securely open the skies for all. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation, our products and Altitude Angel's achievement as well. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

Apply Today

With drones becoming more and more prevalent, we are looking for individuals who are eager to help us build and deliver the solutions which have the potential to change the world. If you want to join us and be at the forefront of the aerial revolution, apply today.