At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications, reporting to the Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the team to design and implement web applications using modern frontends and application servers that consume apis and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment.
- Work with the team to design and implement backends including data modeling, apis, and supporting pipelines.
- Rapidly iterate on tooling and design new applications as the company grows.
- Influence and adopt software practices and patterns that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, an engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience.
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on ambiguous problems.
- Experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Experience with API Design.
- Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks
- React, Vue, or similar
- GraphQL
- Nodejs
- OAuth
- Terraform
- FastAPI
- PostgresSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
Pay Range:
- Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications II: $135,000 - $192,500
- Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $159,000 - $226,000
- Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $188,600 - $267,000
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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