Full Stack Engineer

Quindar

Full Stack Engineer developing backend and frontend systems for satellite operations at Quindar. Contributing to mission-specific software for U.S.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeDenver • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2GraphQLJavaScriptKubernetesNoSQLPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and cloud-native applications for satellite operations workflows.
Develop mission-specific software for U.S. government customers while contributing to Quindar’s core product platform.
Design, integrate, and troubleshoot services using AWS technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, Fargate, EKS, CloudWatch, S3, EFS/EBS, EC2, and RDS.
Work across backend and frontend systems, including integration with React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and modern application frameworks.
Improve the scalability, security, cost efficiency, reliability, and performance of software used in satellite operations.
Build and support containerized and serverless architectures using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with satellite operators, customers, product managers, frontend engineers, backend engineers, and other cross-functional partners to understand requirements and deliver new capabilities.
Troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and improve maintainability, resilience, and observability over time.
Automate development, deployment, and operational workflows to help teams move quickly and reliably.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Secret clearance.
4+ years of professional experience in backend development, full-stack engineering, DevOps, or a related software engineering role.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong proficiency with Python and experience building production backend services.
Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting APIs, distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases, caching systems, event-driven systems, and multi-tier architectures.
Experience with AWS services and cloud-native development patterns.
Hands-on experience with Docker, containerized applications, and Kubernetes systems.
Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or similar.
Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript, with experience either developing full-stack or frontend software or closely integrating with frontend engineers.
Experience with version control systems such as Git, GitHub, GitLab, or similar tools.
Strong technical analysis, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
Ability to work independently, manage projects with minimal guidance, and deliver high-quality work on time.
High standards for software maintainability, quality, resilience, security, and performance.
Strong communication skills across engineering, product, customer, and operations stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
Each year we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend developmentfull-stack engineeringDevOpsPythonAPIsdistributed systemsrelational databasesNoSQL databasesevent-driven systemsmulti-tier architectures

Soft Skills

technical analysisdebuggingtroubleshootingindependent workproject managementhigh-quality workcommunication

Certifications

Active Secret clearanceBachelor’s degree in Computer Science