Vast is building artificial gravity space stations to enable long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Ground Software to support the development of systems required for the design and build of these human-rated space stations, starting with Haven-1, the world's first commercial space station.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience.
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications.
- 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 + Nodejs + OAuth + Terraform + PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
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.
Other
- full-time, exempt position
- located in our Long Beach location.
- The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by [22 C.F.R. § 120.62] or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing.
- Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer
