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Application Software Engineer

K2 Space

Los Angeles, CA • On-site

$123K - $160K/yr

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Job description

Our enterprise software team builds the digital backbone that powers K2 Space's satellite design, manufacturing, and mission operations. We develop tools that connect engineering, production, and mission control into a seamless ecosystem - enabling our hardware to get from concept to orbit faster than ever before.

We're looking for engineers who are curious, collaborative, and driven to deliver mission-critical software that helps turn ambitious space projects into reality.

Responsibilities

  • Develop highly reliable software solutions used across K2 Space - from factory floors to mission control.
  • Create and evolve applications that improve how we design, build, and operate our spacecraft.
  • Partner closely with engineers, business partners and leaders across disciplines to understand their challenges and design efficient solutions.
  • Build prototypes to test concepts and validate technical constraints.
  • Develop prototypes into working product features.
  • Own full-lifecycle feature development from inception to happy customers.
  • Actively contribute to software features and bug fixes.
  • Understand tradeoffs in competing engineering options and be able to articulate these tradeoffs to senior engineers and contribute to implementation progress.
  • Work with customers to drive adoption and make progress on product usability.
  • Understand priorities communicated by senior staff and work to develop solution with minimal oversight.
  • Ability to balance being strongly opinionated on tech stack while remaining open-mind and willingness to reevaluate with new data point.
  • Actively contribute to building a culture of transparency, empathy, integrity and engineering excellence.
  • Actively mentoring other staff members and help team members build good culture and engineering practices.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics or a STEM discipline or 1-3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
  • 1+ years of experience in full stack development, platform engineering or API development.
  • 1+ years of experience with AWS.
  • 1+ years of in-depth working experience with CI/CD such as GH Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD.
  • 1+ years of in-depth working experience with Git.
  • 1+ years of in-depth working experience with Docker.
  • 1+ years of in-depth working experience with Kubernetes (prefer AWS EKS).
  • Working experience with one or more of the following static typed programming languages such as C#.NET, Go, Java.
  • 1+ years of experience with structured database such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Snowflake or similar technologies
  • 1+ years of experience with unstructured database such as NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar.
  • Working experience with all aspects of software engineering best practices.
  • Working experience with REST API or gRPC.
  • 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).
  • Working experience with OAuth 2.0 and OIDC.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Next.js, React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
  • Working experience with TypeScript.
  • Working experience with testing tool such as Cucumber and Cypress.
  • Foundational knowledge of scalable, high-performance software systems.
  • Knowledge of build systems and package management tools (e.g., Make, Gradle, npm, pip).

Compensation and Benefits:

  • Base salary range for this role is $123,000  $160,000 + equity in the company
  • Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
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About K2 Space

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Industry

Guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing

Company size

11 - 50 Employees

Headquarters location

Los Angeles, CA, US

Year founded

2022

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