Graduate Software Engineer — Graphics & Platform
Sensat🚀 Go deep on graphics. Build across the platform.
📍 London, Shoreditch | Hybrid | 2–3 days week in office
👤 Reporting to Head of Engineering
💻 Full-time | Entry-level / Graduate
Visualisation is a core part of what we build at Sensat.
It’s where huge, complex and often messy project datasets are turned into something engineers and project teams can actually see, understand and use. Done well, it can help a team spot an issue earlier, understand what’s happening across a project and make better decisions.
We’re looking for a Graduate Software Engineer who wants to build real depth in computer graphics, 3D data and geospatial technology, while also developing as a well-rounded software engineer across our wider platform.
Graphics and data processing will be where you go deepest, and it’s a genuinely difficult area to learn in. You’ll get exposure to large-scale 3D datasets and real production engineering problems early in your career, rather than spending your first year watching from the sidelines.
You won’t be expected to figure everything out alone. You’ll have a mentor, work that’s scoped to stretch you without sinking you, and a team that expects you to ask questions.
Over time, you’ll build specialist knowledge in an area many software engineers never get the chance to work in, alongside a broader understanding of how a production SaaS platform fits together.
🛠️ What you'll be doing
You’ll spend most of your time working around graphics, geospatial data and the processing pipelines that power our visualisation platform, gradually broadening your experience across the wider product.
You’ll:
- Work on pipelines that process, optimise and serve large-scale geospatial and CAD datasets for the web.
- Get hands-on with modern 3D formats including glTF, USD, 3D Tiles and point clouds, learning how they’re stored, streamed and rendered efficiently.
- Implement and improve rendering features using WebGL-based technologies, supported by engineers who know the platform inside out.
- Work with the maths behind 3D graphics, including transform hierarchies, matrices, rotations and camera systems.
- Contribute production code to the wider Sensat platform, with opportunities to work across Golang, Postgres, Angular and AWS as you develop.
- Write tested, maintainable code and build strong engineering habits through code reviews, pairing and regular technical feedback.
- Work alongside Product and customer-facing teams, so you understand how the things you build are actually used by our customers.
- Take on increasingly complex problems as your confidence and knowledge grow.
You’ll have a mentor, regular feedback and properly scoped work designed to stretch you without throwing you in at the deep end.
💭 You might be the kind of person we’re looking for if...
You enjoy understanding what is happening underneath the surface.
When something doesn’t quite make sense, you want to pull the thread and figure out why.
You’re probably someone who:
- Gets genuinely interested in graphics, rendering, 3D technology or geospatial problems.
- Likes difficult technical problems that require a bit of thinking rather than an obvious copy-and-paste solution.
- Is comfortable asking questions when you’re stuck, but will have a go at investigating the problem first.
- Wants feedback and sees code review as a chance to get better.
- Enjoys learning how different parts of a system fit together.
- Cares about writing good software, not just getting something to compile.
- Wants to develop real technical depth while still understanding the wider product you’re building.
🎯 Your experience might look something like this…
This is a graduate role, so we’re not expecting years of commercial experience.
What we do need is evidence that you’ve already started developing solid software engineering and graphics fundamentals, whether that’s through university, placements, internships, personal projects or open-source work.
Must haves:
- Software development experience through a Computer Science, Software Engineering or related degree, placement, internship or substantial personal projects.
- Familiarity with at least one computer graphics API or library such as OpenGL, Vulkan or WebGL.
- Comfortable with 3D linear algebra, including transform hierarchies, rotation matrices, quaternions and Euler angles.
- Experience working in a systems or compiled language such as C, C++, Rust or Go.
- An interest in understanding lower-level technical problems rather than staying purely at application level.
Bonus points for:
These are genuinely bonuses, not a secret second must-have list:
- Writing your own graphics shaders.
- Experience with WebGL-based libraries such as three.js, luma.gl, deck.gl or Babylon.js.
- Familiarity with formats such as glTF, USD or 3D Tiles.
- Exposure to GIS, geospatial or remote-sensing concepts, including coordinate reference systems, raster/vector data or point clouds.
- Personal projects, university work or open-source contributions involving graphics, games, simulation, mapping or 3D technology.
If some of those terms are things you’ve only started exploring, that’s okay. Curiosity and strong foundations matter more to us than arriving with a perfectly matched tech stack.
🌱 You’ll thrive here if...
Sensat works well for people who enjoy ownership, trust and learning quickly.
We’re a relatively small engineering organisation, which means you’ll be close to the people making decisions and close to the problems our customers are trying to solve.
There’s plenty to learn, but you won’t be expected to figure everything out alone.
You’ll thrive here if you:
- Ask questions and actively seek feedback.
- Are comfortable saying when you don’t know something.
- Take ownership of problems and follow them through.
- Enjoy working collaboratively rather than disappearing into a corner with your code for three weeks.
- Can adapt as you learn more about the problem.
- Want your work to have a visible impact on the product and its users.
🤝 Why Sensat?
Work on unusual engineering problems early in your career.
Large-scale geospatial data, CAD, point clouds and interactive 3D rendering aren’t things every graduate engineer gets exposure to.
Build real technical depth.
Graphics and data processing will be your core focus, giving you the chance to develop specialist knowledge in an area many engineers never get to work in.
Become a broader engineer too.
You’ll also gain exposure to a production SaaS platform across backend, frontend, databases and cloud infrastructure.
Learn with proper support.
You’ll have mentoring, regular feedback, code reviews and engineers around you who expect you to ask questions.
See where your work goes.
You’ll be able to connect the software you build with real customer problems and see how your work is used in practice.
If you’re looking for a graduate engineering role where you can go deep technically, build things that actually ship and learn from difficult real-world problems, we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
📈When Sensat succeeds, so will you, with equity share options
🏝️Take a break using your 30 days of annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
🏝️Take a break using your 30 days of annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
🌎 A flexible working environment
🎓 Continue learning every day through your £500 personal development fund
🥳 Regular social events! We’ve been to the theatre, racing around the tracks go-karting, had movie nights, watched the London Symphony Orchestra, line dancing lessons and murder mystery...
💓 We’ve got your back, be it immediate access to mental health support through Spill or enhanced Family Leave for those welcoming a new arrival, we support you throughout your journey here.
🩺 We care about our people and want to make essential healthcare accessible and affordable. That’s why we have an Opt-in Corporate health and wellbeing cash plan (offering up to £1700 in cash back annually) provided through BHSF.
💻 We want to enable you to do your best work without having to think about whether your tech will work, so we'll set you up with a MacBook, mouse & keyboard and £250 towards setting up your WFH environment.
💸 Pension: with Penfold. Employer contribution of 3%, employee contribution set at 5% but can be increased (relief at source or salary sacrifice).
🏋 Access to the benefits of our Fora office membership, including access to their gyms and fitness classes, events and dog friendly office
🚲 Other benefits including cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans, eye-care vouchers, payroll giving
At this time, we are only able to accept applications from those who have a right to work in the United Kingdom. Our office is in Old Street, London.
Diversity, Equality & Inclusion
We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need, and our recruitment processes are conducted in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.