Backend Software Engineer

About the position

As an agile team, we commit code and perform code reviews with a goal of performing a production push daily. The successful candidate is a motivated self-starter who loves technology and can grow our software platform enabling frequent and seamless production deployments. You will be working within the realm of Advanced Air Mobility on an application designed to provide an airspace integration capability between a vehicle and supporting airspace system(s). The client aids in the planning of aircraft operations and provides a real-time interface for message exchanges with supporting airspace systems to provide situation awareness for the operator and adjacent services.

Requirements

• Kafka messaging
• Java Spring, with a deep knowledge of event driven architectures and microservices
• Solid expertise in building highly scalable, highly available, distributed, loosely coupled systems
• Passion for writing high-quality, reliable code; unit and integration tests; and clear and concise documentation
• B.S. in Software, Mechanical, Aeronautical, or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years experience
• US Citizenship Required

Nice-to-haves

• RESTful API design for developer audience - OpenAPI, Swagger
• Sync/async 3rd party system integration
• Web technologies (HTTP, RESTful APIs, Spring, Spring Reactive, SpringBoot, XML, JSON, Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker)
• CI/CD tools, Jenkins, git
• Elastic containers and Kubernetes
• NoSQL databases like Mongo DB, Redis
• Building meticulous systems visibility - metrics, centralized logging, tracing
• Cloud computing platforms
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Geospatial databases
• Observability concepts and tools like Datadog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana
• GraphQL and gRPC
• Python, Nodejs, Go
• Familiarity with Air Traffic Management
• Familiarity with unpiloted aircraft systems (UAS)