3 months ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end from product brief to production, including data models, APIs, frontend, tests, and rollout.
- Design and evolve domain models and APIs for work orders, engineering changes, effectivity, and defect records.
- Build fast, accessible React interfaces for factory-floor operators.
- Write and review Postgres schemas and migrations while maintaining data integrity.
- Partner with product, design, and manufacturing stakeholders to translate operational needs into software.
- Contribute to architecture, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- U.S. citizenship is required due to ITAR regulations.
- At least 5 years of full-stack engineering experience with production systems at non-trivial scale.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript, React, and Node.js-based backends.
- Deep experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres, and ORMs, preferably Prisma.
- Experience with indexing, migrations, transactional consistency, and shipping production-quality features with product and design teams.
- Ability to reason about complex domain models and turn them into maintainable software.
- Preferred: experience with manufacturing, supply chain, ERP, MES, PLM, or other industrial software.
- Preferred: familiarity with Docker, AWS or Azure, and Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
- Preferred: experience in both startup and scale-stage product engineering.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, and career-growth opportunities.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, equity grants, unlimited PTO, and a generous holiday calendar including a November and December holiday hiatus.
- Generous parental leave, Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, HSA, Hospital Indemnity insurance, Critical Illness insurance, and Accident insurance.
- Basic Life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance are 100% covered by Firestorm, with optional additional life insurance.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources, plus free legal and financial support services.
- The role is based at the San Diego, California headquarters; local candidates and candidates open to relocating are welcome, and relocation assistance may be included in the offer package.
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About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.