Senior Software Engineer (Python / TypeScript / Azure)

📋 Job Overview

Build the software behind some of the world’s most advanced radar systems. CHAOS Industries is a defense tech company founded in 2022 that has raised $1B from investors including 8VC, Accel and Valor Equity Partners. You’ll build the backend services, data pipelines and operator-facing apps that turn raw sensor data into decisions people can act on.

🏢 About CHAOS Industries

CHAOS Industries is a defense tech company founded in 2022 that has raised $1B from investors including 8VC, Accel and Valor Equity Partners.

🎯 The Role

You’ll build the backend services, data pipelines and operator-facing apps that turn raw sensor data into decisions people can act on.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build high-performance Python services that ingest, process and distribute real-time sensor data with low latency, high reliability and security at scale
• Build the web apps (TypeScript and React) operators use to monitor live missions and investigate what the sensors saw
• Design and build secure, scalable Azure services for distributed radar systems, defining the infrastructure as code and instrumentation for what you own
• Work alongside software, hardware and systems engineers, and the teams who take these systems into the field
• Influence architecture and help define the engineering foundations of a fast-evolving platform

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience building scalable backend systems and owning production services
• Experience with distributed systems and real-time data problems
• Real leverage from AI coding tools, with a considered view on what to delegate and what not to
• Willingness to travel: you’ll be based in our Soho office, and most of the team is in San Francisco, so expect to co-locate there for around a week each quarter

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Python for backend services
• TypeScript and React for web applications
• Azure and infrastructure as code

🎁 Benefits

• Private medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents, 100% paid by the company
• 5% pension match
• Pre-IPO stock options, relocation assistance, and annual bonuses (coming soon)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Right to work in the UK required.