Senior Software Engineer, Near Aircraft Charging Systems

XWING; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with company match

RSUs

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Paid time off

Job summary

Joby is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elevate Edge Applications Team in San Carlos, CA to develop charging software for aviation deployments. You will advance software from testing into production, with opportunities to expand into maintenance tooling and near aircraft systems.

You will work across backend and frontend stacks, collaborating with teams to deliver reliable software, while leveraging AI to accelerate development and testing in a fast-paced, hardware-adjacent

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or comparable field.
• 5+ years of full stack software engineering experience — backend and frontend.
• Deep understanding of APIs, web services, and system integration.
• Comfortable with streaming data patterns such as WebSockets, Kafka, or similar.
• Proficiency in C#, Python and Angular; able to learn Java and React as needed; leveraging AI to accelerate translation.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, and containerized deployments to Kubernetes.
• Experience leveraging AI tools/workflows to automate development and testing.
• Familiarity working near hardware (not firmware development).
• Excellent problem-solving, proactive mindset, and ability to work across teams.
• Strong Senior to Staff-level engineer capable of independent delivery.

Responsibilities

• Work on the user-facing charging software: monitor, control, and troubleshoot flows used during charge testing and charge sessions.
• Adapt the software as charging equipment and firmware capabilities develop.
• Contribute to building applications that support aircraft maintenance workflows across near aircraft systems.
• Work across the full stack — backend and frontend — spanning equipment interfaces and user-facing tooling.
• Leverage AI as part of development and testing workflows to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Full stack software engineering

APIs / web services

Streaming data (WebSockets / Kafka)

C# / Python / Angular

Java / React (adaptability)

AI for development

CI/CD & Git workflows

Kubernetes / containerization

Hardware-adjacent familiarity

Independent delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Git-based workflows

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Frontend frameworks (Angular / React)

Backend languages (C#, Python)

Job description

Joby is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Elevate Edge Applications Team in San Carlos, CA to develop charging software for aviation deployments. You will advance software from testing into production, with opportunities to expand into maintenance tooling and near aircraft systems.

You will work across backend and frontend stacks, collaborating with teams to deliver reliable software, while leveraging AI to accelerate development and testing in a fast-paced, hardware-adjacent