Software Engineer, Full Stack

About the role

You’ll collaborate closely with frontend, backend, autonomy, and product teams while growing your skills across the full stack and contributing to production systems used in real-world, high-stakes environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain backend services and APIs that power frontend experiences.
• Improve performance and reliability across the stack, from browser rendering to service interactions.
• Build and iterate on UI/UX in Skydio cloud.
• Collaborate with autonomy, product, and field teams, incorporating feedback from real-world operations.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing software across the stack.
• Experience building or integrating backend services (e.g., REST/GraphQL APIs, service-to-service communication, or data pipelines).
• Familiarity with cloud-based systems and distributed architectures.
• Understanding of performance, reliability, and maintainability considerations across frontend and backend systems.
• Experience with modern web development technologies such as React and TypeScript.
• Product intuition and empathy for users operating in time-sensitive, high-stakes environments.
• Ability to work across teams and contribute to features from development through production.

Bonus points

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or orchestration tools (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal).
• Interest in autonomy, robotics, or real-time systems.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Knowledge of database management systems (e.g., SQL).

Benefits

• Paid vacation time, sick leave, holiday pay.
• 401K savings plan.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $110,000 - $180,000.

Schedule

This role is Hybrid 3 days a week in the office out of our San Mateo, California office. We are quite flexible on the days but all employees would be expected to be able to commute to our office 3 days a week or would be open to relocation closer to the office. We offer candidates relocation packages to help with this move.