What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer position at Portside?
About Portside, Inc.
Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated fullstack (.NET, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS) engineer to join our Flight Scheduling System (PFM) team. This system is a mission-critical "system of record" for business aircraft operators that supports scheduling of aircraft and crew member operations. It provides flight and crew legality checks; keeps track of crew training, rest, and qualifications; and manages passenger details and documents. The system also offers record keeping and reporting, integrated fuel pricing and ordering, and integrates with other Portside and third-party platforms and products. These integrations include tasks like aircraft maintenance, ordering services for crew and aircraft, performing safety checks and weight-and-balance calculations for the aircraft, filing flight plans, among many other functions.
You’ll be working with a team of professional engineers who are in love with aviation, eager to share their in-depth knowledge, and captivated by the idea of building a world-class flight management system.
Key Responsibilities
Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced and motivated fullstack (.NET, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS) engineer to join our Flight Scheduling System (PFM) team. This system is a mission-critical "system of record" for business aircraft operators that supports scheduling of aircraft and crew member operations. It provides flight and crew legality checks; keeps track of crew training, rest, and qualifications; and manages passenger details and documents. The system also offers record keeping and reporting, integrated fuel pricing and ordering, and integrates with other Portside and third-party platforms and products. These integrations include tasks like aircraft maintenance, ordering services for crew and aircraft, performing safety checks and weight-and-balance calculations for the aircraft, filing flight plans, among many other functions.
You’ll be working with a team of professional engineers who are in love with aviation, eager to share their in-depth knowledge, and captivated by the idea of building a world-class flight management system.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable and secure software solutions using C#/.NET/HTML/JavaScript/CSS, following best practices (SOLID, DRY, KISS) to develop features for the Flight Management System that support flight and crew operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate PFM with other Portside and third-party platforms
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring they meet high performance, reliability, and security standards for internal and external system integrations.
- Write, maintain, and document high-quality code.
- Contribute to overall development goals by collaborating with other developers to ensure the applications are intuitive, responsive, and aligned with user needs in the aviation domain.
- NET, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C#, ASP, ASP.NET
- Proficiency in .NET and C#
- Strong knowledge of SQL
- Solid understanding of database normalization, indexing, stored procedures, triggers and user-rights
- Strong experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Web Components, native JavaScript module imports, OOP and functional methodologies
- Strong knowledge of how the web works:
- HTTP cycle, content-security-policy, cookies, tokens, etc.
- Experience in designing applications architecture, good understanding of the MVC, SOLID, DRY, KISS, design patterns and other development best practices; strong and consistent understanding of REST API
- Solid understanding and comfortable with GIT best practices
- Commits, tags, branching, pull-requests
- Great troubleshooting skills
- Strong motivation and willingness to learn
- Practical and results-oriented engineering mindset
- Desire to build reliable and efficient solutions
- Interest in business aviation and in becoming a domain expert in the field
- Comfort with pure JavaScript (outside of standard frameworks)
- Familiarity with VB.NET
- Good understanding of CI/CD principles and experience in writing unit and integration tests
- Experience working with Blazor and Telerik Component Libraries
- Experience with designing intuitive user interfaces with consistent styles and UX paradigms
- Experience with Google APIs (maps, geolocation, charts)
- Experience with Mobile App development and deployment (primarily iOS) via XCode, Flutter, Cordova, etc.
- Familiarity with newer Web API technologies (server-side-events, sockets, web/shared-workers, WebAssembly, notifications)
- Full-time employment
- Competitive salary
- Generous time off policy
