At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station when it launches into low-Earth orbit in 2026. It is part of our stepping stone approach to continuous human presence in LEO. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications, reporting to the Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the 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 the 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, an engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience.
- Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on ambiguous problems.
- Experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Experience with API Design.
- Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks
- React, Vue, or similar
- GraphQL
- Nodejs
- OAuth
- Terraform
- FastAPI
- PostgresSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
Pay Range:
- Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $125,000 - $171,500
- Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $155,000 - $196,000
- Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $177,600 - $235,500
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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What We Do
Vast is developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.
Vast’s mission is to enable large populations of humans to live and work in space, permanently.
Our solar system has the resources and room for humanity to thrive and expand without destroying Earth’s biosphere. Unlocking these resources requires in-space infrastructure and industry at an unprecedented scale.
We are building a world-class team to engineer the human experience in space.
Why Work With Us
We're developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system in order to enable large populations to live and work in space. Not only is what we're working on groundbreaking, but the team prides itself on living by our values of respect, curiosity, action, and excellence making it a lot more fun to achieve our goal.
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