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Lead Software Engineer

Slingshot Aerospace Inc.
Charlotte, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

What You’ll Do :

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will design and build capabilities that advance the development of our products. You will deliver your own timely high-quality code and support your team by mentoring and providing assistance when needed. You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to implement the right-sized solution that meets product requirements in a timely manner. As the technical owner of a project, you will be a key advisor to senior leaders.

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include : intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Position Responsibilities :

  • Own the overall technical leadership and direction for a portion of Slingshot’s projects, supporting your fellow team members to achieve success in a sustainable long-term manner.
  • Balance timely delivery with the operational stability of the overall system.
  • Foster an environment and culture of personal and professional growth.
  • Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by the team.
  • Lead the software development lifecycle, from idea creation, planning, and development, all the way through to deployment.
  • Provide productionalized support of the architecture and capabilities developed by the team, as well as coordinate technical design and implementation across teams to deliver customer requirements as extensions to core capabilities.
  • Participate in customer engagements and lead technical discussions.
  • Act as a mentor for other team members.
  • Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above).

Pre-Requisites

  • Must be eligible to obtain or maintain US Government Security Clearance.
  • Minimum Requirements

  • 7 years of experience in software development.
  • Served as a tech lead or equivalent role for 3 years.
  • 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience using our stack or similar technologies (Node.js, Typescript, Python, Java / Kotlin, GraphQL, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, React).
  • Adept in working with cloud-based deployments (AWS) PaaS and IaaS offerings, including some experience with Infrastructure-As-Code solutions.
  • Capable of working with containers and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS).
  • Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI / CD tools (GitHub Actions).
  • Experience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and CloudEvents, data platforms, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Leading initiatives to ensure unit and integration tests are part of the Definition of Done.
  • Knowledgeable in database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j).
  • Skilled in collaborating with data scientists in incorporating AI / ML / LLM into existing software products.
  • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
  • Preferred Skills

  • Possess security compliance accreditation such as NIST 800-53, DoD ILs, FedRAMP in higher-classification cloud or air-gapped environments and have experience supporting organizations to obtain accreditation.
  • Experience with fast-moving software technology startups and product organizations.
  • Knowledge of frontend technologies, specifically React, Three.js.
  • Demonstrated experience working in, or close collaboration with DevOps team members and infrastructure technology.
  • Familiarity with QA practice and collaboration.
  • Track record of supporting predictable software delivery with Product Team partners.
  • Prior Space and Aerospace Industry experience is a bonus but not required.
  • Proficient in integrating complex external systems with APIs.
  • Experience with simulation technologies like HLA / DIS.
  • These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed - if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.

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