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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 front-end engineering.
This role is a 3-month fixed-term contract with the potential to extend contingent on the program's renewal. This role is eligible for Slingshot Aerospace's standard benefit offerings, with the exception of equity.
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 React, Typescript, Kotlin/Java, GraphQL, Python 3
- 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)
- 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 asynchronous processing and/or data streaming technologies, such as AWS Kinesis, Kafka, or ZeroMQ, KNative
- Experience implementing interactive 3D web applications using the Three.js library and other related technologies, such as WebGL, WebXR, React-three-fiber, drei, and GLSL
- 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: El Segundo, CA - we may be able to accommodate US-based remote work
Pay Range: $126,264.00-$144,444.00
US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.
Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.
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