Software Engineer

Do you want to be part of a team that is breaking world records and changing computing?

Founded in 2015, Hadean are a venture backed startup, reimagining distributed, spatial and scalable computing for web 3.0 and the metaverse. Hadean’s products have helped organisations including Microsoft, Epic Games, Minecraft and the Francis Crick Institute to achieve the impossible and contribute solutions to global problems.

Our distributed cloud platform provides the foundations of web 3.0 applications for the metaverse, enterprise organisations and the defence sector. At the heart of our technology is the Hadean Platform, an intuitive and cloud-agnostic approach to build highly scalable applications.

The role: You’ll be working on the design, implementation, and maintenance of our products, ensuring their operational integrity and striving to deliver optimal solutions for our customers. You will have proven experience working on deep tech, innovative architectures, and researching the latest approaches to software engineering that will help us gain a competitive edge in terms of performance and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute full lifecycle software development using Agile methodologies.
• Write well designed, testable, maintainable, scalable and efficient code.
• Uphold good software development practices that include estimation, code reviews, testing, debugging, adhering to code standards, and seeking improvements across the entire software development lifecycle with the end user in mind.
• Perform analysis work in collaboration with other team members in Product and Engineering.
• Assess technical debt, raise potential issues and address them to ensure we remain efficient and effective.
• An area of proficiency or specialism may be defined with this role and with it comes the complete technical responsibility to ensure that the given area meets all business and technical requirements.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

About You

As much as we’re determined to hire based on specific skill sets and experiences, we’re even more obsessed with hiring the right people who share our values. You will love working on meaningful projects, making a difference and want to leave your mark on the world. You’ll possess a ‘can do’ growth mindset. You will be self-aware that you may have gaps and want to improve. You will be open to change and will constantly strive for improvement and greatness. You will be comfortable with the uncertainty that comes with being part of building game changing products, you will have the resilience and grit needed to handle the biggest of challenges. And most of all, you’ll truly be a team player. You find value and appreciate the difference in other people and how they may see things differently to you. You know that our collective potential is limitless but only if we unite and unselfishly act as one. For this particular vacancy, we’re also looking for the following:

Your Skills

• Ability to perform effectively to tight deadlines, working well both independently and as part of a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to efficiently pick up new programming languages/paradigms
• Comfortable managing personal priorities, deadlines and deliverables in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives.

Your Knowledge

• B.S/M.S. in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer/developer
• A strong background in C++ development and Linux
• Familiarity with backend development services and APIs
• High level understanding of distributed computing

Experience with at least one of the following:

• Rust
• Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Windows application development
• DevOps
• Full stack development and React

Nice to have:

• Strong empathy for customer experience
• Visual Studio extension development
• Low level performance programming
• Data engineering
• Cloud automation (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, …)