Senior Software Engineer, Mission Software

Vast is looking for Senior Software Engineer, Mission Software, reporting to Senior Manager, Mission Software, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

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

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.

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

Pay Range: California

$160,000—$227,000 USD