Full-Stack Engineer for Real-Time Space Systems

Redwire Space; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwire Space seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end software powering our simulation and mission system platforms. You will create advanced React interfaces, implement high‑throughput services in Python/C++/Rust, and integrate with distributed systems within aerospace and defense environments.

You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to deliver reliable, data‑rich applications with strong API governance and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related STEM field.
• 1–5 years of fullstack experience across frontend and backend domains.
• Systems‑level understanding: concurrency, distributed systems, data modeling, caching, performance optimization.
• Modern frontend expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and UI engineering practices.
• Core web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, rendering pipelines, performance constraints.
• Advanced React patterns: hooks, contexts, scalable state management.
• Design systems & component architecture: libraries, CSS‑in‑JS, modular CSS.
• Complex visualization work: physics‑based simulations, realtime system behavior.
• Backend integration fluency: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build fullstack software capabilities for simulation and mission workflows.
• Develop frontend interfaces using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and scalable architectures.
• Implement high‑performance backend services in Python, C++, or Rust for APIs and pipelines.
• Integrate with distributed systems, simulation engines, and data pipelines.
• Design and maintain APIs with REST, GraphQL, and gRPC and strong schema governance.
• Build realtime processing pipelines for deterministic and multithreaded execution.
• Develop visualization tools for physics‑based simulations and system behavior.
• Ensure reliability and observability with logging, metrics, tracing, and testing.
• Collaborate with systems engineers, mission analysts, UI/UX designers, and DevOps.
• Contribute to CI/CD and engineering rigor through testing and code reviews.

Skills

Frontend development

Backend development

React

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

C++

Rust

APIs

Distributed systems

UI/UX collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

REST

GraphQL

gRPC

WebSockets

Job description

Redwire Space seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end software powering our simulation and mission system platforms. You will create advanced React interfaces, implement high‑throughput services in Python/C++/Rust, and integrate with distributed systems within aerospace and defense environments.

You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to deliver reliable, data‑rich applications with strong API governance and observability.