Ground Software Engineer

Summary

Join AST SpaceMobile, a company building the world's first space-based cellular broadband network, SpaceMobile. We are seeking a full-stack engineer to develop software and infrastructure supporting ground software and mission operations. The successful candidate will have experience in software design principles and operations development. This role involves designing and implementing software applications for satellite mission operations, designing and maintaining network infrastructure for ground-to-satellite communication, debugging software, and collaborating across sub-systems. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter and comfortable leading development efforts. This position offers significant latitude in system development.

Requirements

• At least 3-5 years in a software/application development position
• Must have space experience
• Experience in both front-end and back-end development
• Strong software engineering experience
• Familiarity with version control systems
• Familiarity with networking concepts and Fundamentals
• Experience with programming languages like C, C++, Java, Python, Go, or other programming languages
• Experience with frameworks such as: NodeJS, FastAPI, NestJS, Fiber
• Express, OpenAPI, Swagger, TypeORM
• Angular, Vue, React
• Flutter, Swift, Android Studio
• Experience with concurrent (multithreaded) programming practices and libraries
• Experience with containerization such as Docker
• Comfortable working on different operating systems such as Linux and Windows depending on the task
• Experience using both relational and non-relational databases
• Familiarity using cloud providers (specifically AWS)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software applications in support of mission operations for constellation-based satellites
• Design, implement and maintain a network infrastructure in support of ground to satellite communication systems
• Debug and troubleshoot any software bugs identified in network or full-stack software
• Collaborate across various sub-systems and address any pain-points through ground software applications focusing on automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with implementing DevOps concepts complex environments Continuous integration
• Continuous testing
• Continuous deployment
• Continuous monitoring
• Experience using container managers such as Docker-Compose or Kubernetes
• Experience developing platform agnostic applications (works on iOS, android and web)
• Strong front-end design and development experience
• Experience with front-end mockup software such as Adobe XD or Figma
• Experience with shell scripting languages such as bash and powershell