Full-Stack Engineer for Spaceflight Test Platforms

York Space Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

PTO

401K

Job summary

York Space Systems is hiring for a full stack engineer to support SIT platforms used on the production floor. You will work on backend services, data modeling, and real time frontend views for mission testing.

Collaboration with test engineers and other teams is required to iterate and deliver reliable software for spaceflight testing. The role emphasizes production readiness, automated testing, and end-to-end platform ownership with opportunities to grow into broader responsibilities within a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or greater in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong full stack fundamentals, with backend development as the primary strength
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python
• Experience designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization (we use PostgreSQL)
• Experience integrating with systems and APIs owned by other teams or third parties
• Experience shipping user facing features, gathering feedback, and iterating quickly
• Experience supporting a production application with an active user base
• Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and containerization
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

• Develop and extend backend services for mission critical test execution, including data modeling and query optimization
• Build and maintain user facing interfaces, including real time views into running tests
• Integrate products with lab, ground, and test infrastructure owned by other teams across the company
• Work directly with test engineers on the floor to gather feedback, understand how tests actually get run, and iterate on the platform based on what you learn
• Translate high level designs and requirements into high quality, production ready code across the stack
• Develop automated tests for our products and the systems it interfaces with
• Support test like you fly, test driven development for spacecraft flight software, ground software, and space vehicle integration
• Write and execute test plans, procedures, and reports in collaboration with other York developers
• Triage and fix bugs across a TypeScript monorepo: a Node (Hono) API server with Postgres persistence, a React frontend, and a Kafka/NATS ingest path.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Troubleshoot and debug full stack products and its supporting tools and infrastructure
• Provide technical direction to more junior engineers, and create documentation and user guides
• Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences

Skills

Python

REST APIs

React

TypeScript

Docker

CI/CD

Git

Linux

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

WebSockets

Kafka/NATS

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

York Space Systems is hiring for a full stack engineer to support SIT platforms used on the production floor. You will work on backend services, data modeling, and real time frontend views for mission testing.

Collaboration with test engineers and other teams is required to iterate and deliver reliable software for spaceflight testing. The role emphasizes production readiness, automated testing, and end-to-end platform ownership with opportunities to grow into broader responsibilities within a