Lead Integration Software Engineer

What You’ll Do:  

As a Lead Integrator Software Engineer, you will design, build and integrate capabilities that advance the development of our products. You will deliver your own timely high-quality code and support your team by mentoring and providing support when needed. You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to implement the right-sized solution that meets product requirements in a timely manner. You lead the effort in deploying and managing the on-premise software components.  As the technical owner of an integration project, you will be a key advisor to senior leaders.  

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:  

• Own the overall technical leadership and direction for a portion of Slingshot’s integration projects, supporting your fellow team members to achieve success in a sustainable long-term manner  
• Balance timely delivery with the operational stability of the overall system 
• Foster an environment and culture of personal and professional growth
• Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by the team
• Leads integration lifecycle, from planning to on-prem deployment.
• Productionalized support of the architecture and capabilities developed by the team
• Coordinates technical design and implementation across teams to deliver customer requirements as extensions to core capabilities and deliver to onsite locations.
• Participate in customer engagements and lead technical discussions
• Act as a mentor for other team members
• Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)  

 Pre-Requisites  

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance  

 Minimum Requirements  

• 7+ years of experience in software development  
• Served as a tech lead or equivalent role for 3+ years
• 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• Experience using our stack or similar technologies (Java/Kotlin, Python, GraphQL, REST, Docker, React, TypeScript)
• Adept in working with cloud-based deployments (AWS) PaaS and IaaS offerings including some experience with Infrastructure-As-Code solutions
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes
• Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)
• Experience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and CloudEvents, data platforms, microservices, and distributed systems
• Leading initiatives to ensure unit and integration tests are part of the Definition of Done
• Knowledgeable in database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)
• Skilled in collaborating with data scientists in incorporating AI/ML/LLM into existing software products
• Proficient in integrating complex external systems with APIs
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time  

 Preferred Skills  

• Possess security compliance accreditation such as NIST 800-53, DoD ILs, FedRAMP in higher-classification cloud or air-gapped environments and have experience supporting organizations to obtain accreditation 
• Experience with fast-moving software technology startups and product organizations
• Knowledge of frontend technologies, specifically React, Three.js
• Demonstrated experience working in, or close collaboration with DevOps team members and infrastructure technology
• Familiarity with QA practice and collaboration
• Track record of supporting predictable software delivery with Product Team partners
• Prior Space and Aerospace Industry experience is a bonus but not required  
• Experience with simulation technologies like HLA/DIS  

 *These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, w