2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship backend services, APIs, data models, and workflows for production planning and execution.
- Define models for production, materials, inventory, resources, work, processes, constraints, and operational state.
- Build distributed systems that operate across cloud, factory, disconnected, and air-gapped deployments, including synchronization, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
- Integrate Crucible with PLM, ERP, quality, test, optimization, and other production systems.
- Improve performance, observability, testing, and failure handling for production-critical software.
- Partner with software leadership and architecture on service boundaries, data ownership, system interfaces, and technical direction.
- Review critical code and designs, improve development practices, and mentor or assist other engineers with difficult backend problems.
Requirements
- 8+ years building and shipping backend or distributed software in production.
- U.S. person required due to ITAR regulations.
- Strong backend software engineering fundamentals and sound judgment in selecting technologies and system designs.
- Strong experience with at least one modern backend language.
- Strong relational data modeling, API design, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience designing systems with complex state, workflows, consistency requirements, synchronization, or distributed state challenges.
- Experience operating and debugging production software.
- Ability to take ambiguous technical problems from design through deployment.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Preferred: production backend experience with TypeScript/Node.js, GraphQL, and Prisma or similar technologies.
- Preferred: experience with disconnected or intermittently connected systems; manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, ERP, or MES software; external enterprise or industrial integrations; or aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, or other complex physical systems.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Generous company holiday calendar, including July and December holiday hiatuses.
- Generous parental leave.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
- Hospital indemnity, critical illness, 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 and additional work-life services such as legal and financial support.
- Role is based in San Diego, CA; 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.