Senior Application Software Engineer

The role

You will design and build mission-critical software that connects engineering, manufacturing, and operations. This work enables satellite design, production, and mission execution.

What you will do

• Develop highly reliable software solutions used from factory floors to mission control.
• Create and evolve applications to improve spacecraft design, build, and operation.
• Partner with engineers, business partners and leaders to design efficient solutions.
• Build prototypes to test concepts and validate technical constraints.
• Own full-lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers.
• Contribute to software architecture design, deployment strategy, coding standards and quality processes.
• Articulate engineering tradeoffs to senior leadership to help drive decisions.
• Work with customers to drive adoption and product usability.
• Use data to drive prioritization of work and design of solutions.
• Mentor other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in full stack development, platform engineering or API development.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS.
• 3+ years of in-depth working experience with CI/CD such as GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD.
• Working experience with Docker.
• In-depth working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
• Expert working experience with one or more of the following static typed programming languages such as C#, Go, Java, C++, TypeScript.
• 3+ years of experience with structured database such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake or similar technologies
• Working experience with unstructured database such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar.
• Strong working experience with REST API or gRPC.
• Strong working experience with binary management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, AWS CodeArtifact or similar technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration and management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).

Nice to have

• Experience with Next.js, React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
• Working experience with testing tool such as Cucumber and Cypress.
• Experience designing scalable, high-performance software systems.
• Knowledge of build systems and package management tools (e.g., Make, Gradle, npm, pip).
• Familiarity with data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision/ coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown. They are mass-producing high-power satellite platforms for missions from LEO to deep space.