What You’ll Do:
As a Software Engineer supporting Slingshot’s Platform via Full Stack development, you will design and build capabilities that will enable our products to help solve satellite owner-operator problems. You will be a multiplier for the entire engineering team by not only delivering high-quality code on time but by helping your teammates do so as well, and by mentoring and providing support whenever needed. You will find, evaluate, and leverage new technologies; solve complex problems; and deliver value to end users.
This position will be supporting back-end engineering.
Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance orientation, and industry expertise.
Position Responsibilities:
- Work across the technology team interacting with product managers, designers, and other engineers in implementing the right-sized solutions
- Meet product requirements in a timely manner while not compromising the operational stability of the overall product
- Participate in Agile software development and deployment processes
- Provide ongoing support for the services and applications that are critical to our business needs
- Communicate methods, findings, and hypotheses with stakeholders
- Work on both the frontend and backend to solve problems and deliver value to both internal and external users
- Build data platforms/pipelines, microservices, and distributed systems
- Build and document APIs (REST, GraphQL)
- Develop advanced data interfaces and interactive user interfaces
- Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by anyone on the team
- Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)
Pre-Requisites
- Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in software and application development, including 2+ years of experience designing and building durable, scalable, and high-availability systems
- Experience using technologies such as Node.js, GraphQL, React, and Typescript
- Experience with cloud-based deployments, PaaS, and IaaS offerings (most notably AWS)
- Experience with authentication and authorization standards and tools (OAuth, OIDC, RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC, Keycloak)
- Experience with database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
- Experience with containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
- Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)
- Experience with asynchronous processing and/or data streaming technologies, such as AWS Kinesis, Kafka, or ZeroMQ, KNative
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Preferred Skills
- Advanced degree in computer science or a related field
- Active Secret DOD clearance or higher
- Experience with Government security configurations such as STIGs and NIST
- Early-stage data-centric startup experience
- Experience working within DOD software factory environments
These skills are guidelines. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed - if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Location: Remote, United States
Pay Range: $126,264.00-$144,444.00
Classification: Full-time Exempt (computer employee exemption)