Senior Full Stack/Platform Software Engineer

About the role

X-Bow Systems is a cutting-edge aerospace technology company focused on revolutionizing solid propellant propulsion systems for space exploration and defense applications. Our team of innovative engineers and scientists is committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in rocket propulsion and manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services and event-driven capabilities supporting engineering workflows and information exchange across multiple systems.
• Develop APIs and services powering internal applications and engineering tools.
• Create mechanisms for discovering, navigating, and contextualizing engineering information.
• Collaborate with data engineers to develop metadata models, information services, and data processing pipelines.
• Build user-facing applications, dashboards, and visualization capabilities.
• Extend and maintain existing custom engineering applications including materials, testing, and analytics platforms.
• Partner with domain experts to transform complex engineering processes into intuitive software experiences.
• Contribute to platform architecture, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in several of the following:

• Python
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• FastAPI, Flask, or similar backend frameworks
• SQL
• REST APIs
• Messaging brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, etc)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure, AWS
• Git and CI/CD tooling
• Distributed systems design
• Microservice architectures

Desired Skills

• Strong experience in several of the following:

• Graph databases
• GraphQL
• Search technologies (Elastisearch, OpenSearch, Solr)
• Data pipelines
• Manufacturing or industrial software
• PLM, ERP, or MBSE familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar.

Location

Remote work is possible, but hybrid is preferred in one of our primary engineering locations of Austin TX, Huntsville, AL or Salt Lake City UT.