Desktop CPQ Application and Automation Engineer
Aechelon Technology2 months ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$126k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the Electron main process and React renderer architecture, including the security boundary between them.
- Design and evolve the local SQLite schema, migrations, synchronization, upsert logic, and data integrity practices.
- Lead integrations with NetSuite, Jira, Confluence, and Perforce, including authentication and error handling.
- Define testing, linting, code review, and release practices while improving maintainability.
- Mentor and unblock engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Partner with sales, finance, and operations stakeholders to scope initiatives and define the technical roadmap.
- Own cross-platform packaging and automatic updates using electron-builder and electron-updater.
- Shape the Contract Analyzer module, including document extraction and optional AI-assisted analysis.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of production software development experience with JavaScript and Node.js, including project or team leadership experience.
- Deep React expertise and strong architectural judgment for component and state design.
- Strong SQL and relational data modeling skills, including schema evolution, migrations, and synchronous database access patterns.
- Strong understanding of Electron's process model, IPC, context isolation, and secure preload bridges, or comparable desktop/security-model experience.
- Experience designing and maintaining third-party API integrations using real-world OAuth or token-based authentication.
- Strong Git and GitHub proficiency, including branching workflows, pull requests, code reviews, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction through architecture decisions, testing strategy, and engineering mentorship.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with non-technical business stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with Electron desktop applications and electron-builder release packaging.
- Preferred familiarity with NetSuite, SuiteQL, ERP systems, CPQ or quoting domains, document generation, templating, and finance or sales operations workflows.
- Preferred experience with docxtemplater, docx, mammoth, pdf-parse, xlsx, or production LLM/AI SDK integrations.
Benefits
- Base salary of $126,000-$160,000 per year for California locations.
- Company performance-based profit sharing.
- 401(k) plan.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance plans.
- No relocation reimbursement is provided.
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About Aechelon Technology
Aechelon Technology builds visual simulation systems for military and government training, including image generators, geospecific visual and sensor databases, and realistic 3D models, plus integration services. It sells hardware, software, and content to U.S. Government agencies and defense prime contractors for flight and sensor-training simulators. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in South San Francisco, the company is privately held and backed by Sagewind Capital.