Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Slingshot Aerospace(2 months ago)

RemoteFull TimeSenior$150,000 - $250,000Engineering

About this role

A Staff Backend Software Engineer at Slingshot Aerospace will design and evolve backend platform capabilities that enable satellite-focused products and services. The role emphasizes technical leadership and mentorship, contributing to architecture decisions and ensuring platform scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. The position aligns with the company's mission to create safer, more connected systems and requires U.S. employment eligibility.

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Required Skills

Java
Kotlin
Spring Boot
REST
GraphQL
Event-Driven
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
EKS

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Qualifications

4-Year Degree in Computer Science or Related
U.S. Citizen
Eligible For Government Clearance
TS/SCI (Preferred)

About Slingshot Aerospace

slingshot.space

Slingshot Aerospace provides data-driven software and applications that give space operators real-time situational awareness and mission planning capabilities to make space safe, sustainable, and secure. Their platform ingests and fuses heterogeneous space data to deliver mission-critical insights, analytics, visualizations, and tools that help customers understand what is happening in orbit and plan operations. Leading commercial and government space operators rely on Slingshot for operational decision‑making, space domain awareness, and collision‑risk management. The company focuses on scalable, actionable solutions to support resilient and sustainable space operations worldwide.