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# Front-end Engineer

- **Company:** Comand AI
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Salary:** £70,064.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, GIS Applications, Interaction Design, TypeScript, Web Applications, Web Performance Optimization, ReactJS, Data Layers, Front End Software Development, Crud
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5878705997

## About the Role

We filter hardest on mission drive, low ego, attention to detail, and resilience under pressure. We want someone who cares about front-end engineering as a craft and can still move quickly when the problem is ambiguous.

Must-have:

 * Strong production experience with React and TypeScript, with front-end engineering as a core part of your craft
 * A track record of owning complex interfaces from problem definition through release and iteration
 * Strong product and design judgement: you notice weak hierarchy, inconsistent interactions, and confusing states before a specification points them out
 * Pragmatism and low ego: you can improve rough work from other engineers without turning every implementation choice into a philosophical debate
 * Comfort with ambiguity and changing priorities, while keeping the quality of what ships high
 * EU or UK citizenship (contractual requirement tied to our defence contracts)

Nice to have:

 * Experience with mapping, cartographic, GIS, or other geospatial applications
 * Front-end performance work involving large or real-time datasets
 * Experience building offline-capable or resource-constrained web applications
 * Experience creating or scaling a design system
 * Prior work in defence, government, or dual-use technology

## Description

You'd join the product development team as a front-end specialist, working closely with product design and engineering. You take an operational problem, explore it, come back with proposals, and iterate. Delivering a clear, fast and dependable user experience is critical to the person using it.

What this looks like in practice:

 * Own front-end delivery on Prevail, our operational planning platform, from interaction design through production
 * Build interfaces for real geospatial problems: interactive maps, multiple data layers, large datasets, and time-sensitive workflows well beyond a typical CRUD application
 * Work with product and design early, turning operational needs into clear flows and production-ready experiences
 * Raise the front-end quality bar across the team by reviewing and improving work from engineers with different specialities, including AI-assisted code
 * Make thoughtful trade-offs between speed and durability, especially when a high-stakes demo or deployment creates a short deadline
 * Help create reusable patterns that make the product more coherent as the team and surface area grow


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