
Desktop CPQ Application and Automation Engineer
Aechelon TechnologyBase 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 Inc. is now a Shield AI company. Follow @Shield AI for updates. Aechelon Technology is a leading provider of visual simulation image generators, associated geospecific visual and sensor databases, realistic 3D models and integration services for the US Government and Government Prime Contractors. Since 1998, Aechelon Technology has maintained an unparalleled track record in program deliveries for the US Marine Corp, US Navy, US Air Force, US Army, Special Operations Command, US State Department Foreign Military Sales program and US Coast Guard, with all excellent Past Performance Evaluations. The Company has demonstrated its ability not only to deliver the visual system hardware and software, but also to provide comprehensive integration services, logistics support and program management with the delivery of image generators and databases for training programs for platforms including P-8A, BAMS, AV-8B, AH-1W, UH-1N, MV-22, MH-53, CH-53, C2-A, EA-6B, T-45, CH-47F, MH-60R, MH-60S, MMH, F-16, F-18 and F-35, and for simulation of advanced multi-sensor pods such as ATFLIR, WESCAM-20HD, LITENING II+ and AN/ASS-44C. In addition, Aechelon Technology has collaborated with the Joint Services Night Vision Training Systems and works with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1) on the delivery of 21 enhanced Night Vision Goggles (NVG) mission rehearsal training capabilities, for use by the Navy/Marine Night Imaging and Threat Evaluation (NITE) Labs worldwide.