Software Engineer - Frontend

Frontend Software Engineer

Preferred Location: Ottawa

Reports to: Engineering Lead

Type: Full-Time

The Role:

You will lead the development of our operator interfaces and visualization platforms, bridging complex backend telemetry with intuitive, high-performance web applications. Working closely with hardware and embedded system teams, you will design, test, and operate resilient user interfaces optimized for real-time data visualization in constrained, forward-deployed environments.

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-performance dashboards, geospatial maps, and user interfaces that surface critical system states, live telemetry, and analytics for operators.

• Build frontend interfaces and dashboards that surface critical system state and analytics for operators

• Engineer frontend state management and asset delivery to ensure interfaces remain highly responsive over bandwidth-constrained edge networks.

• Implement frontend-facing APIs (BFF architecture) and lightweight backend services to ingest, normalize, and stream mission data smoothly to the client.

• Connect frontend applications with sensors, embedded systems, and edge compute nodes to ensure robust, fault-tolerant data flows.

• Maintain comprehensive frontend and integration testing suites (Jest, Cypress, PyTest), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment tooling.

• Work alongside embedded, mechanical, and systems engineers to define clean data interfaces and validate end-to-end system performance.

• Travel to sites as required to support field operations, troubleshoot live UI performance under pressure, and rapidly iterate based on operator feedback.

• Mentor peers and contribute to frontend engineering standards, reusable component libraries, code reviews, and technical design documents.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong production experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python; comfort writing clean, testable, and type-safe code.

• Deep practical experience with modern web frameworks (React, Vue, or similar) and state management libraries.

• Experience with charting, graphing, or geospatial mapping libraries (D3.js, Chart.js, Leaflet, Mapbox, or WebGL) for rendering real-time telemetry.

• Comfort with lightweight Python web frameworks (Flask, FastAPI, or similar), SQL databases, and relational data modeling.

• Experience with one or more of: Android, ATAK/TAK plugin development, AWS services (ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3).

• Proficiency with Git, JSON/YAML config, containerization, and CI/CD tooling.

• Proven ability to work closely with hardware teams, a low-ego approach to problem-solving, and comfort debugging system interfaces under pressure in field environments.

• Eligibility for Canadian security clearance preferred; Canadian citizenship an asset.

No defence background required.

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Why Join Us

Building something meaningful starts with the right people. At Dominion Dynamics, you’ll:

• Shape Canada’s future by building real defence capability for the CAF and our allies.

• Make decisions that ship in a high-trust environment with short feedback loops and rapid iteration.

• Move fast, field faster, and work directly with the operator — our systems are in the field with the CAF now.

• Have an impact from day one with equity, responsibility, and direct access to leadership.

If you’re curious, hands-on, and driven by the opportunity to make a difference, this is where you belong!

 

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary and company equity

• Comprehensive health benefits

• Additional equity granted based on impact

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