Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack
Observable Space5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own multi-quarter technical roadmaps for platform systems and translate company goals into durable architectural decisions.
- Define and evangelize engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.
- Drive distributed-systems architecture and long-term technical scalability across the stack.
- Identify and resolve systemic technical risks before they become production incidents.
- Lead multi-team technical design processes by writing RFCs, facilitating alignment, and driving decisions to closure.
- Develop senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and structured feedback.
- Translate technical tradeoffs into business impact for executives, customers, and other non-technical stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver customer solutions.
- Interview candidates and help define engineering hiring standards.
- Design, build, and maintain Kotlin backend microservices, C++ edge applications, and reactive frontends.
- Design and optimize relational database schemas, ETL pipelines, and data warehousing solutions.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues across backend, frontend, and edge systems.
- Ensure production reliability and performance and establish observability practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years in a Staff, Principal, or technical lead capacity.
- Ability to influence technical direction beyond an immediate team through documents, standards, or organizational initiatives.
- Track record of improving engineering quality, velocity, or culture at an organizational level.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, C++, or C#.
- Extensive experience with data modeling, relational database management systems, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
- Experience working in a test-driven development environment.
- Strong product sense focused on user experience and outcomes.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Preferred experience with foreign function interfaces for calling Rust and C++ from the JVM.
- Preferred experience with Kotlin backend programming, TypeScript, and React.
- A love of astronomy, physics, and science is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Cutting-edge projects in an innovative environment
- Collaborative, inclusive culture with professional growth opportunities
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About Observable Space
Observable Space builds vertically integrated optical systems and software that let satellites and spacecraft see, navigate, and communicate. Its products span ground-based telescopes and stations, in-space sensor payloads, and free-space laser communications, paired with embedded compute, cloud orchestration, and developer APIs. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles and manufactures in-house, selling hardware and supporting software to satellite operators, space agencies, defense users, and research institutions.