Software Frontend Engineer

ABOUT AirLab

The joint CAAS-Thales innovation lab known as ‘AIR Lab’ started to operate on 1st November 2019 with the objective to develop Proof of Concepts (POCs) or Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) of advanced and open technologies for future Air Traffic Management (ATM). Currently, the joint lab employs a team of 40 Thales engineers and 12 CAAS engineers and air traffic controllers operating in a vibrant ecosystem involving several Singaporean SMEs and start-ups, as well as key research institutes.

Thales engineers include 10 domain experts – with more than 10 years of experience – coming from Thales ATM centers of competence in France and Australia. These experts are coaching both the local Thales and CAAS engineers.

The POCs and MVPs are co-developed with the CAAS engineers who have access to the same development tools and environment used by the Thales Engineers (provided by the Singapore branch of Thales Digital Factory). The POCs and MVPs are defined in collaboration with CAAS air traffic controllers through iterative workshops.

AIR Lab research outcomes will feed the next generation of products, including clearly disruptive outcomes addressing Safety and Security for Open architecture, data driven ATM Twin, Green Aviation, Trajectory Based Operations.

As the AIR Lab was recently extended for another 3 years, 4 work streams are now embarked:

Regional Experimental Platform, FF-ICE/TBO, Green Aviation, Future-proof Interoperable Platform-Agnostic, Safe and Secure Platforms. These work streams are supported by the AIR Lab DataLake platform which provides data transformation and serving services in the cloud.

AIR Lab 2.0 continues to benefit from research conducted in Europe through new architecture research which, among other objectives, aims at meeting much stricter safety standards for ground ATM systems in development by the European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA). This breakthrough architecture study is co-funded by the French government (CASSIOPEA).

Regional Collaboration Platform (RCP) has been initiated in AIR Lab 1.0 and has the view to addressing regional needs.

ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

As a Frontend Software Engineer with Backend development experience at AIR Lab, you will thrive if you have a passion for coding, designing, and engaging in discussions about Frontends, UI/UX and HMIs in general, but with some capacity to understand and develop backend services. You take pride in both the quality of your technical implementations and the overall delivery. You enjoy collaborating with a diverse team, bringing together various ethnic and cultural perspectives.

You are eager to dive deep into technical challenges, identify solutions, and effectively communicate your findings, helping the team learn and grow. You are enthusiastic about exploring new technologies and finding innovative ways to apply your knowledge. You also inspire and motivate your teammates to embrace continuous learning and take an active role in all aspects of engineering activities at AIR Lab.

KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Software Frontend Engineer, you are accountable for:

• Design and build user interfaces that are responsive, scalable and innovative.
• Implement features and associated automated unit and integration tests. If appropriate implement security and load tests.
• Improve the UI frameworks and associated tests frameworks to increase productivity and quality.
• Improve and maintain the total cost of UI components; this activity includes raising efficiencies around FinOps, CloudOps.
• Work with the architects to effect best practices to the engineering organization.
• Write and review the necessary technical and functional documentation in documentation repositories (e.g., backstage.io, JIRA, READMEs).
• Work in an agile, cross-functional multinational team, actively supporting the team's success.

KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:

Education

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology with a minimum of 3 years of related working experience.

· Master's degree in Computer Science or Data Science, if applicable.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Working knowledge of designing and building software applications using:
  • Typescript
  • React and React state management libraries (e.g. Zustand or Redux)
  • GraphQL
  • Geospatial data visualization framework (e.g. DeckGL, Cesium, MapBox…)
  • CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind)
  • Unit testing tools (e.g. vitests, playwright)
  • Vite (or other build tool chains like NextJS)
• Proficiency in distributed source code management tools like GitLab, Github and practice GitOps.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Familiar with development and deployment technologies for cloud (e.g., Azure Cloud, AWS, GCP), Kubernetes and container workloads (e.g., Kaniko, Docker) in general.
• Full stack development knowledge (Spring Boot, Web/Webflux, Kafka, Data, Security), Kotlin language, Kafka streams.
• Working knowledge of designing application with a “shift-left” cybersecurity approach.
• Working knowledge of other languages (e.g., Python3, Scala2 or Scala3, Go, TypeScript, C, C++17, Java17).
• Familiar with cloud deployment models (e.g., public, private, community and hybrid) and service models (Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service).

Essential / Desirable Traits

• Possess learning agility, flexibility and pro-activity.
• Comfortable with agile teamwork and user engagement.

YOUR CAREER AT THALES

Future opportunities will allow you to discover other domains or sites. You will be able to evolve and grow your competencies in different areas:

• Room and attention to personal development.
• Build your talents in another domain of Thales Group, discovering new products, new customers, new country or go to a more complex Solution.
• Choose between a technical expertise or a leadership path.
• Build an international career within a leading Engineering Group.