Senior Backend Engineer, Space Operations Intelligence – Autonomy

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🕒 May 26

🏈 Alabama, Arizona, +29 more states – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote 🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote ⛰️ West Virginia – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Slingshot Aerospace

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

💰 $25.2M Grant on 2022-03

Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Security

Slingshot Aerospace is a leading AI and data-driven platform focused on optimizing satellite operations and enhancing space traffic coordination for operators worldwide. Renowned for its innovative solutions in space domain awareness, Slingshot Aerospace provides advanced tools for space security, defense missions, training, and market analysis. The company's comprehensive offerings include space object tracking, AI-driven training agents, and astrodynamics services. Through its Global Sensor Network and sophisticated data fusion techniques, Slingshot transforms disparate space data into actionable insights, improving operational efficiency and reducing risks in an increasingly complex orbital environment. Trusted by government and commercial space operators, Slingshot Aerospace is committed to making the space domain safe, sustainable, and secure for future generations.

📋 Description

• Execute all position responsibilities in alignment with Slingshot’s core values, mission, and purpose • Work across the technology team with product managers, designers, and engineers to build rightsized solutions that advance Slingshot’s SOIA capabilities • Meet product requirements in a timely manner while not compromising operational stability • Participate in Agile software development and deployment processes • Provide ongoing support for services and applications that are mission critical to real-time space operations intelligence • Communicate methods, findings, and hypotheses with stakeholders • Work across both frontend and backend services to deliver value to internal and external users • Build data platforms/pipelines, microservices, interactions with AI agents, and distributed systems powering SOIA workflows • Build and document APIs (REST, GraphQL) supporting high volume, real-time data flows • Develop advanced data interfaces and interactive user experiences that streamline operator decision cycles • Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by anyone on the team

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development • 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or related field • Active security clearance required; Top Secret preferred • Experience using our stack or similar technologies (Java/Kotlin, GraphQL/GraphQL subscriptions, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Python) • Adept in working with cloud-based deployments (AWS) including PaaS and IaaS offerings and Infrastructure-as-Code • Capable working with containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS) • 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 • Knowledge of database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) • Skilled in collaborating with data scientists to incorporate AI/ML/LLM into production software • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off