Senior software engineer

Stell Engineering, Inc

Early stage start-up – $7M+ in VC funding

Must be US citizen or green card holder (due to ITAR restrictions)

Team of aerospace veterans with deep supplier quality engineering expertise: Raytheon, Airbus, Anduril, Hadrian, Palantir, SpaceX, Mission Control

Base salary range $160-$180k + equity

We are actively hiring for this position, start date is ASAP

About Stell

Stell helps engineers at hardware companies in heavily-regulated industries (Space, Aviation, Medical Devices) do documentation and tracking of technical contract compliance.

Stell’s key innovations are (1) a user-interface for building text-rich documentation while enabling the complex linking needed to describe hardware systems, and (2) secure collaboration on technical contracts, replacing email and PDFs for our customers and their customers.

Stell’s simple yet powerful interface makes collaboration across internal teams and external partners (like suppliers) fast – so you can supercharge your engineering projects ⚡

 https://www.stell-engineering.com/

In this Senior Software Engineer role you will:

• Architect, develop, deploy, and maintain mission-critical enterprise web applications with high availability
• Collaborate with CEO and Head of Engineering to define technical roadmaps, implement system architecture patterns, and establish engineering best practices
• Partner with aerospace and defense sector clients within AWS GovCloud environments, ensuring FedRAMP compliance and NIST security standards
• Develop proof-of-concept implementations to evaluate technology viability, conduct performance benchmarking, and assess technical debt tradeoffs
• Drive architecture, design, and code reviews, mentoring junior engineers and influencing critical technical decisions
• Work across our databases, API, client codebases, and infrastructure

This may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience with significant exposure to enterprise-scale distributed systems
• A proven track record building and scaling web applications capable of handling concurrent users and high transaction volumes
• Experience employing domain-driven design principles and solving complex technical challenges with appropriate design patterns
• Proficiency in React ecosystem, component optimization techniques, and front-end performance tuning
• Experience integrating and fine-tuning large language models (transformers) via APIs and implementing prompt engineering techniques
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, including IAM policies, VPC architecture, and security group configuration
• Experience writing infrastructure as code using Terraform modules
• Experience configuring and managing Kubernetes clusters, including deployment strategies, service mesh implementation, and resource optimization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Early stage start up experience
• Familiarity with DevOps practices
• Strong understanding of security best practices and secure coding principles
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment

What Stell brings to the table:

• Flexibility and autonomy at work in a hybrid work environment – we have offices in LA in SF and value our in-person culture, meaning we expect the team to be on-site 3 days a week
• Mission to support Aerospace and US Manufacturing – we exist to serve hardware engineers developing and building some of the most important tech in our time (rockets, satellites, drones!)
• Sizable equity as part of the compensation package- you become an owner of this company
• Competitive salary
• Healthcare, vision, dental