Frontend Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Join Improbable U.S. Defense & National Security and you will help users leverage our synthetic environment development platform to plan and train for the most complex security threats in the world. Working along experts in AI, Machine Learning, computational modeling, and distributed systems, you will put multiplayer gaming technology to life-saving use.  

Our mission? To enable the most realistic and effective virtual worlds ever experienced. Our team in Arlington, VA, and across several other locations in the US, is focused on applying our technology to solve real-world Defense and National Security problems.  

At Improbable, you will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them, and who compel you to improve yourself. We’re motivated by the fulfillment of solving hard problems to achieve something profound and transformative. 

Your Mission

Our software engineers working in this area are delivery focused, working in diverse technical teams to design, build, deploy, and evaluate models and simulations and the technologies that power them. Our work delivers new solutions to some of the most important challenges we face today.

• You will contribute to opinions, best practices, and technology choices to set us up for delivering the best possible solutions to our customers.
• Operating in a PoC heavy environment, you will have a lot of scope for impact in a customer facing capacity. Helping to break through and define loose requirements as well as cutting through ambiguity
• Working closely with product managers, designers and scientific modelers, you will to help determine and design what we will build.
• Writing coherent, logically abstracted, well-tested, and well-structured code.
• Collaborate closely and effectively with members of other engineering teams to find the best path to delivering a high quality solution.
• From time-to-time you may be asked to assist with back-end engineering to ensure customer success.

• 3+ years of experience engineering Single Page Web Applications with a modern framework in complex environments. React preferred but will consider other UI frameworks like Vue or Angular.
• Designed and engineered complex end-to-end flows of data from APIs to render large volumes of data on screen.
• Have expertise in Typescript, React, Redux, this would be a major advantage.
• Great experience working on high performance web applications.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD practices to deploy and maintain scalable UI components and recommending and establishing UI development Best practices.
• Have great experience in customer facing environments and feel comfortable in this capacity
• Not afraid of ambiguity or loose client requirements. You are happy to forgo perfection over pragmatism in your work.

While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.