HavocAI
Principal Frontend Engineer
$185K–$205K
Remote · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of frontend engineering experience; significant Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical scope.
About the job
Architects and builds scalable, real-time geospatial interfaces for operators commanding autonomous systems.
What you'll do
- Design and implement frontend architecture for high-frequency real-time data and large geospatial feature sets.
- Build, review, and guide scaling decisions for the map interface, data flows, and performance.
- Identify architectural risks, communicate technical decisions, and mentor senior engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including significant Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical scope.
- Production experience building and scaling high-volume real-time applications and map-based geospatial applications.
- Expert experience with React and TypeScript, plus browser performance and geospatial rendering optimization.
- Experience with real-time communication technologies and client-side data architecture, including degraded-connectivity scenarios.
Nice to have
- Experience taking an internal operational tool to a multi-tenant product; data visualization depth.
- 3D and WebGL experience, or experience in defense, aerospace, robotics, or other operationally critical systems.
Pay
$185K – $205K USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript, MapLibre, Mapbox GL, Deck.gl, WebSockets, MQTT, gRPC-web
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