About the position
Epirus is a high-growth technology company dedicated to overcoming the asymmetric challenges inherent to the future of national security. Epirus' flagship product, Leonidas, is a software-defined system built using intelligent power management techniques that allow power-hungry systems to do more with less. This is an opportunity to join a team of skilled software engineers developing across the full stack down to bare metal. We are tackling new and critical problems and developing products ranging from energy weapons to AI-powered sensors and drone swarm defense. As we enhance, scale and deploy our systems, we need software engineers who want to take ownership and work closely with a skilled team from planning through implementation. At Epirus you will: Create User Interfaces for cutting-edge systems, not just apps, create reliable and real-time optimized UIs, innovate to solve problems that are novel and critical to our nation, be a part of a talented team of skilled and experienced engineers and managers, and be part of a culture that enables ownership, values mentorship, and promotes work/life balance.
Responsibilities
- Make powerful insights into our architectural decision-making, including framework trade-offs, state-management solutions, API and business layer patterns, and error-handling strategies
- Collaborate effectively with UX/UI designers to ensure the seamless translation of design concepts into functional, user-friendly interfaces
- Collaborate effectively with our backend teams to improve API designs
- Integrate novel front-end tech into our stack
- Take ownership of significant new features and plan them with meaningful technical document requirements descriptions, design wireframes, and software design diagrams
- Optimize not just performance but developer experience, CI/CD, and testing
- Be a force for readability and clean coding patterns in our codebase
- Mentor and collaborate effectively
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of professional front-end/UI development experience, JavaScript and TypeScript Expert
- Mastery in building UI applications with React
- Competence in at least one set of front-end build tools, bundling, and transpilation
- Competence in at least one set of testing frameworks for unit, integration, and e2e testing (e.g., Jest, Playwright)
- Mastery of CSS, SASS, and experience with Bootstrap, Tailwind, Material-UI, Shadcn
- Experience optimizing performance for real-time React applications
- Experience with Agile/Scrum development
- Experience working with a design/development pipeline
- At least 1+ years with at least one of the following: web-based 3d rendering, data visualization, mapping libraries
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with wireframing/design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Work/life balance
- Mentorship opportunities
- Diverse and inclusive work environment
