Real-Time GCS Engineer — AI-Driven Automation

Tekever; Caldas da Rainha; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekever is seeking a Software Developer to design, build, and evolve the Ground Control System (GCS) that plans, monitors, and controls unmanned aircraft missions. You will contribute across real-time flight systems, mission tooling, and operator workflows, with a focus on ownership and robust engineering.

You’ll work on AI-assisted development and automation, improve performance, reliability, and observability, and collaborate with architects and product owners to shape the system's future.

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 robust real-time systems that manage telemetry, mission planning, payload operations, and operator workflows.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across different modules of the GCS codebase.
• Contribute to modernizing architecture, tools, and engineering practices as the system evolves.

Skills

C#

.NET

Real-time systems

WPF

API design

Distributed systems

Messaging

Docker

CI/CD

Observability

Telemetry

Async programming

Multi-threading

Debugging

MVVM

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Job description

Tekever is seeking a Software Developer to design, build, and evolve the Ground Control System (GCS) that plans, monitors, and controls unmanned aircraft missions. You will contribute across real-time flight systems, mission tooling, and operator workflows, with a focus on ownership and robust engineering.

You’ll work on AI-assisted development and automation, improve performance, reliability, and observability, and collaborate with architects and product owners to shape the system's future.