Full-Stack Engineer (Back-end) - 12 month FTC

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 and is a 12-month fixed-term contract.  

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, Python 3, Typescript, and Docker
• 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 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.

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