Full Stack Applications Engineer

About Adarga

In an era of information overload, Adarga delivers technology that enables our mission partners to act with speed, clarity and

confidence. By unlocking the value of their data, we help our partners make better decisions that achieve mission-critical outcomes.

Our team is a hybrid of domain specialists and technologists. We believe this layering of experience is key to building cutting edge AI that is operationally relevant, solving real problems, to drive real outcomes.

With our foundations set in NLP, computational linguistics and graph technology we now draw on the latest ideas in generative AI and knowledge representation, as we set our sights firmly on defining and building the next era of sovereign AI capability for mission partners across the Defence and National Security sectors.

To work at Adarga you have to care deeply about the mission. We exist to support those with the ultimate task: upholding the liberties and values that define our society. In today’s contested, multipolar world, this cannot be taken for granted. We want people who are comfortable with uncertainty, who want to own decisions, who want to drive a vision.

The Role

You will work with the Adarga Global Intelligence Centre (AGIC), building applications that augment the capabilities of intelligence analysts. Your goal is to help create the intelligence center of the future where technologists and analysts partner seamlessly to deliver outcomes greater than the sum of their parts.

In this role, you will rapidly prototype small, low-fidelity capabilities to support analysts in their mission work, while also identifying opportunities that can be scaled and productized into end-to-end workflows that underpin Adarga’s software go-to-market strategy. You will collaborate closely with Adarga’s product team and Mission Group EMEA, building on top of Adarga’s flagship product CATALYST, and act as a pioneer, scanning for new trends, opportunities, and emerging needs that can be fed back into the Catalyst roadmap.

What You Will Do

• Prototype front-end interfaces for product experimentation

• Design, implement, and deploy scalable backend services, APIs, and pipelines for multimodal data including text, multimedia, and geospatial sources

• Design and implement AI-driven capabilities including agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), large language models (LLMs), and advanced natural language processing techniques to support mission-specific needs

• Collaborate with AI/ML researchers to operationalize models, from fine-tuning through deployment on USG compliant systems

• Engineer secure, resilient solutions that meet USG compliance requirements

• Work directly with mission owners and analysts to scope requirements, conduct user testing, and deliver deployable capabilities

• Identify opportunities for capabilities to be scaled and productized into software workflows

• Travel up to 25 percent to engage directly with U.S. defense and intelligence customers 

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer

• Professional experience with Python, Java, and a front-end framework

• Deep experience with distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines

• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB

• Familiarity with caches and storage solutions such as Redis and S3

• Experience deploying software within secure, resource-constrained, or government-owned environments

• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on knowledge of hyperscale, NEO, and on-premises cloud technologies

Diversity & Inclusion at Adarga 

Adarga recruits, trains, promotes & employs regardless of race, background, gender, colour, religion, disability, age, gender identity or any other protected status. In addition to this, we actively promote and encourage diversity of thought through multiple avenues. Adarga is dedicated to building and maintaining an inclusive environment where people feel valued, appreciated, and free to be themselves without prejudice.