GCS Software Engineer: Real-time, AI-Driven Automation

NIF; Caldas da Rainha; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKEVER is seeking a skilled Software Developer to design, build, and evolve the Ground Control System that plans, monitors, and controls unmanned aircraft missions. You will contribute across real-time flight systems, mission tooling, payload control, comms, and operator workflows, aligning with an agentic development roadmap.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of professional experience, strong C#/.NET skills, and a track record of real-time or mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Background in C# and .NET (Framework and/or .NET 6+).
• Experience building real-time, high-availability, or mission-critical systems.
• Experience with large desktop or client applications (WPF experience is a plus).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend components of the Ground Control System using C#/.NET.
• Implement real-time systems that manage telemetry, mission planning, payload operations, and operator workflows.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across modules of the GCS codebase.
• Contribute to architecture decisions around modularity, data flows, and system decomposition.

Skills

C#

Async programming

Multi-threading

Memory management

API design

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Observability stacks

Job description

TEKEVER is seeking a skilled Software Developer to design, build, and evolve the Ground Control System that plans, monitors, and controls unmanned aircraft missions. You will contribute across real-time flight systems, mission tooling, payload control, comms, and operator workflows, aligning with an agentic development roadmap.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of professional experience, strong C#/.NET skills, and a track record of real-time or mission-critical systems.