Senior Software Engineer, Mission Software — Space Station

Vast Space Llc.; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Equity

Paid time off

401(k)

Onsite meals and drinks

Job summary

Vast Space Llc. in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Mission Software to develop web applications and scalable backend services. You will work across frontend and backend domains, consuming APIs and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment.

The role emphasizes data-intensive full-stack work, production DevOps with Docker/K8s, and multi-language experience to support Haven Station infrastructure and space-related systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, math, or other engineering discipline
• 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience
• Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications

Responsibilities

• Work with team to design and implement web applications using modern frontends and application servers, that consume apis and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment
• Work with team to design and implement backends including data modeling, apis, and supporting pipelines
• Rapidly iterate on tooling and design new applications as the company grows
• Influence and adopt software practices and patterns that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team

Skills

Frontends

Backends

Full-stack

Data-intensive

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

React

NextJS

GraphQL

OAuth

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

React

NextJS

GraphQL

Job description

Vast Space Llc. in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Mission Software to develop web applications and scalable backend services. You will work across frontend and backend domains, consuming APIs and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment.

The role emphasizes data-intensive full-stack work, production DevOps with Docker/K8s, and multi-language experience to support Haven Station infrastructure and space-related systems.