Full Stack Engineer - Portal (AU)

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems. Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With an approximately $1bn market capitalisation and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters in Pyrmont, Sydney. There are approximately 200 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 300 staff by end of 2026. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Denmark, Germany and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

About the role

The role will be part of the DroneShield Customer Portal development team, but it will be easily extended and linked to other products, such as DroneSentry-C2 and other DroneShield products.  The Customer Portal currently serves as the backbone of customer interactions with their DroneShield devices, and a management system of customers and their owned systems.  In this role you will extend this functionality into enabling MLOps Pipelines, transportation of Big Data, scaling the application, integrating further with existing products, and continue to develop on the extensive APIs.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations 

• Design and develop the current systems to increase functionality and usability
• Build out the automated testing process for the Application
• Build features and improvements from conceptualisation to realisation working closely with the software engineering team
• Take operational responsibility for the services and code base that you will develop

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Between 3 and 5 years’ experience in software developing
• Experience working with at least one modern TypeScript framework, React is ideal
• Experience building Test Automation Frameworks with Web Browser Automation Tools (such as, but not limited to; Selenium, Cypress, Puppeteer) is extremely favourable.
• Experience using TypeScript is required
• Experience building REST APIs with NodeJS and/or Golang
• Experience developing microservices infrastructure is ideal
• Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, developing large software systems, and/or security software development
• Previous ‘start-up’ or ‘scale-up’ experience is favourable
• Familiar with Docker, Postman, GitLab, AWS is favourable

Who you are

• You are a lifelong learner. You’re self-taught and continuously learning. You are interested in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise
• You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools
• You are comfortable running your software in Linux environments
• You know and care about sound engineering practices like continuous delivery, defensive programming and automated testing
• You’re familiar with designing and building distributed and scalable systems
• An abundance of ambition and motivation to grow the company and compete with the big players in the industry.

Note for recruitment agencies: we do not accept floated candidates from external recruiters unless they were instructed to do so.