Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
True Anomaly2 months ago
Denver, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver complex full-stack features across 2D/3D frontend interfaces and distributed Elixir backend services.
- Drive architectural direction, patterns, conventions, and frontend/backend layer boundaries.
- Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews, champion testing practices, and provide reference-quality implementations.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design discussions, and constructive code review.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA, space operators, and astrodynamics algorithm engineers.
- Ship iterative, well-scoped increments and document technical decisions and patterns.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience with meaningful depth across frontend and backend development.
- Expert command of HTML/CSS and modern TypeScript/JavaScript, including browser performance and internals.
- Deep expertise in React, including advanced component patterns, state management, and performance optimization.
- Strong proficiency in Elixir and OTP, including BEAM internals, process architecture, supervision, and fault-tolerant design.
- Hands-on full-stack testing experience with Vitest, React Testing Library, frontend end-to-end testing, ExUnit, property-based testing, and distributed-system integration testing.
- Experience designing component libraries, design systems, service architectures, API boundaries, and gRPC, RESTful, and WebSocket services.
- Strong PostgreSQL experience covering schema design, query optimization, and data modeling tradeoffs.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, commit hygiene, pull request quality, and collaborative code review.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance are required.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar discipline is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes technical leadership, complex data-dense applications, Three.js or React Three Fiber, advanced OTP, production observability and distributed tracing, and collaboration using Figma.
Benefits
- Base benefits include health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), parental leave, and a generous stock options package.
- Flexible work hours/location are mentioned, but the role is specified as onsite near Denver, Colorado, or Long Beach, California.
- The position offers platinum healthcare and competitive compensation.
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About True Anomaly
True Anomaly builds spacecraft and software for space defense, including autonomous satellites, precision-sensing payloads, mission command-and-control software, and space-based interceptors for national security and commercial operators. Founded in 2022 by former U.S. Space Force members, it is privately held and headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The company sells hardware, AI-enabled flight software, and mission operations services to U.S. and allied defense programs and space infrastructure providers.