Slingshot Aerospace

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Slingshot Aerospace

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Montana

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKafkaKotlinKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBPostgresPythonReact

About the role

  • Design and build backend capabilities to help solve satellite owner-operator problems
  • Act as a multiplier: deliver high-quality code, mentor teammates, and support engineering team productivity
  • Evaluate and leverage new technologies to solve complex problems and deliver user value
  • Work across the technology team with product managers, designers, and other engineers to implement right-sized solutions
  • Meet product requirements timely while maintaining operational stability
  • Participate in Agile software development and deployment processes
  • Provide ongoing support for services and applications critical to the business
  • Communicate methods, findings, and hypotheses with stakeholders
  • Work on both frontend and backend to deliver value to internal and external users
  • Build data platforms/pipelines, microservices, interactions with AI agents, and distributed systems
  • Build and document APIs (REST, GraphQL) and develop advanced data interfaces and interactive UIs
  • Translate architecture ideas into technical specifications executable by the team

Requirements

  • Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance
  • 7+ years of experience in software development
  • 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
  • Experience with Java/Kotlin, GraphQL (including subscriptions), REST, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Python
  • Adept in cloud-based deployments (AWS) including PaaS, IaaS, and Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Capable working with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS)
  • Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)
  • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, CloudEvents), data platforms, microservices, and distributed systems
  • Knowledgeable in database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • Skilled in collaborating with data scientists to incorporate AI/ML/LLM into products
  • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time