Software Engineer II, Mission Software

Vast is looking for a Software Engineer, Mission Software, reporting to Senior Manager, DevOps & Platform, 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.

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

Work with Flight Software team to design solutions that interface with flight software and simulation

Build tools and platforms that help all of our software teams move faster through all phases of SDLC (test automation, simulation management, continuous deployment, etc.)

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

2+ 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 API design

Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks

React, Vue or similar

NextJS

GraphQL

Golang

OAuth

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Pay Range: California

$135,300—$192,060 USD