Senior Staff Applications Engineer

The role

You will own and run internally developed engineering applications that manage technical data across product releases. You will develop C#/.NET Blazor web applications and support engineers across several disciplines.

What you will do

• Develop, maintain, and extend C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core) Blazor web applications
• Own the full development lifecycle including feature development, bug fixes, code review, testing, release, and technical documentation
• Build and maintain importers and exporters for data
• Administer applications as production services including deployment, monitoring, backups, upgrades, and user access
• Own the CI/CD pipeline and Git-based configuration control model
• Create and maintain integrations with enterprise tools such as Jira, Cameo, and Polarion
• Triage and resolve user-reported issues and data-integrity problems
• Partner with Systems Engineering to translate ICD change requests into tool updates
• Produce user documentation, release notes, training, and operational runbooks

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Production-grade C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core) development
• Experience with Blazor or a comparable modern component-based web UI framework
• Comfort working in a layered / Domain-Driven Design architecture and evolving a schema-driven domain model
• Solid Python scripting for data import, processing, and automation
• Hands-on experience with Docker-based build and deployment
• Deep Git proficiency including branching, merging, tagging, protected branches, pull-request and release workflows (Bitbucket)
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines and/or TeamCity)
• Ability to independently own a mission-critical internal application from feature development through production operations
• Ability to communicate clearly with a technical engineering user base
• Hands-on experience using Claude Code (or comparable AI coding agents) to generate, refactor, test, and document production code

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of avionics data buses (ARINC 429, ARINC 664/AFDX, ARINC 717, CAN, RS-422, analog, discrete) and Interface Control Document concepts
• Aerospace or regulated-industry experience, including configuration management and change-control discipline
• Experience with MBSE/SysML tooling (Cameo) and model-based interface definitions
• JSON/structured schema design and validation for interface data
• Experience building plugin/extension architectures or application authentication/SSO integration
• Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows

About the company

Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform. They deliver air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems, aviation-related physical artificial intelligence solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide.