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Senior Software Engineer, Ground Software

Vast

Saas

51-200

Long Beach, CA, USA

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About the job

Overview:

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in August 2025. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.

Vast is looking for Senior Software Engineer, Ground Software, reporting to Senior Manager, Ground Software to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and manufacture of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. As a software engineer on our growing team, you'll have an opportunity to learn and grow under the mentorship of seasoned engineers from aerospace and big tech, building powerful software that helps expand humanity into space.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

Work with team to design and implement web applications using modern frontends and application servers, that consume apis and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment
Work with team to design and implement backends including data modeling, apis, and supporting pipelines
Rapidly iterate on tooling and design new applications as the company grows
Influence and adopt software practices and patterns that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline
6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience
Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Experience working on ambiguous problems
Production DevOps experience (Docker and K8s preferred)
Experience working with multiple programming languages
Experience working with time series data and databases
Experience with CAD software and the hardware engineering processes
Experience with API design
Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks
- React, Vue or similar
- NextJS
- GraphQL
- Nodejs
- OAuth
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server