Software Engineer - Backend

Swoop Technologies; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop Technologies is seeking a backend-focused engineer for a hybrid role based in Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week.

You’ll develop APIs for SwoopOS, build SDKs for internal and external use, author Python packages, and collaborate with firmware, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver a scalable platform. Requirements include a Bachelor's in CS, 3+ years in backend, strong Python, production Kubernetes, and eligibility for US security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience.
• 3+ years in backend software development and API design.
• Proficient Python coding and understanding of data models.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Security standards knowledge; eligible for US clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and build new services and features interfacing with firmware, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
• Design and build SDKs for internal and external use; collaborate with 3rd parties.
• Author Python packages used across multiple services.
• Ensure high availability and SLAs across the Kubernetes-based production stack.
• Tune data storage for scale and real-time streaming availability.

Skills

Python

Backend development

Kubernetes

Security awareness

US security clearance

Data structures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact

Swoop’s operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re-imagined in how Swoop’s OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user-facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.

About Swoop

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world.

This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact

Swoop’s operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re-imagined in how Swoop’s OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user-facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
• Design and build SDK’s for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
• Author new Python packages for common functionality used across multiple services.
• Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
• Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real-time availability in a streaming architecture.

You Should Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• 3+ yrs in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
• Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
• Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Understanding of basic software security standards
• Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance
• Travel Requirement - 5-20%

Bonus if you have

• Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
• Experience handling multimedia data structures

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Compensation Range: $125K - $250K