About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

As a Full Stack Software Engineer on the Operations Software team, you will build and maintain web-based command, control, and monitoring tools used to operate large-scale satellite and ground-asset systems. You will partner with operators, reliability engineers, and other software teams to design simple, reliable interfaces and backend services that keep mission-critical systems safe and scalable.

• Develop well-architected, highly reliable, responsive, and performant web applications to command, control, and monitor thousands of assets
• Create aesthetic and easy-to-use user interfaces that reduce operator cognitive load and maintain strong safety guardrails
• Collaborate on architecture, design, and code reviews with other engineers and cross-functional partners
• Translate operational needs into pragmatic, maintainable technical solutions
• Measure, profile, and improve application performance and reliability in production
• Own features end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline and 1+ years of professional experience building full-stack software; OR 3+ years of professional experience building full-stack software in lieu of a degree (relevant internships count)
• 1+ years of experience in full-stack development, software engineering, data engineering, or data science
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward simple, reliable designs

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Preferred Skills & Experience

• Frontend experience with Angular, React, or a similar JavaScript framework
• Programming experience in Python or a similar object-oriented language
• Experience with PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, or similar relational databases
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with version control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems
• Expertise in profiling and improving application performance
• Experience with build systems (Make, Bazel/Pants/Buck, Gradle) and package managers (pip, npm)
• Strong attention to detail and a drive to deliver exceptional operations tools
• Willingness to own outcomes and drive improvements in operational tooling

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Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Ability to participate in an on‑call rotation (nights and weekends) for production support

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Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range:

• Level 1: $125,000 - $165,000 per year
• Level 2: $145,000 - $200,000 per year

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience. Base salary is one part of total compensation; additional elements may include long-term incentives (stock or cash awards), discretionary bonuses, and other benefits.

Benefits highlights may include comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage; access to a retirement plan (401(k)); short- and long-term disability insurance; life insurance; paid parental leave; paid vacation and holidays; and other standard employee discounts and perks. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law.

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Export Control / ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. government export regulations, applicants must meet one of the following:

• U.S. citizen or national, or
• U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or
• Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or
• Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, or
• Be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

If you have questions about export control requirements, please raise them during the hiring process.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

If you have questions about how your data is used, please contact us directly.