Senior Software Engineer
Location: New York, NY
ABOUT FTAI AVIATION LTD. (NASDAQ: FTAI)
FTAI Aviation (NASDAQ: FTAI) owns and maintains commercial jet engines, specializing in the maintenance, repair and exchange of CFM56 and V2500 engines. Our Module Factory and PMA parts programs make engine maintenance substantially faster and cheaper than a traditional shop visit. We have offices and maintenance facilities in New York, Miami, Montreal, Rome, Portugal, Singapore, Dubai, the UK and Ireland, and we have grown from around 150 to nearly 1,800 employees in the last two years.
Most of our industry still runs on email and spreadsheets. We are building the software to replace that: tracking every engine, module and part through its life, and using that data to price work, forecast demand and deploy capital.
JOB OVERVIEW
We are building our software capability in-house and hiring a Senior Software Engineer to work across the full stack: data pipelines, the ontology that models our business, and the applications on top of it. Most of what you build runs on Palantir Foundry. We model our data in the Foundry ontology, land it through Transforms and streaming pipelines, and ship applications as OSDK React apps in Code Repositories, with Git, code review, CI/CD and versioned releases. Around Foundry there is a substantial systems problem: a heavily customized Oracle MRO ERP, change-data-capture pipelines running across four continents, Azure infrastructure, and acquired businesses whose systems need integrating. The work covers the full path from source system to user interface, and you should be comfortable at every point along it. This role requires onsite attendance 5 days a week in our New York, NY office.
Responsibilities:
- Build applications the business uses
- Own applications from requirements to production, built as OSDK React apps in Foundry Code Repositories
- Build data-heavy interfaces covering inventory and parts positions, work scoping, asset status across the fleet, and repair and quote pipelines
- Implement write-back so applications update operational systems rather than only reporting on them
- Build and own the data layer
- Build Transforms and streaming pipelines in Python and PySpark that land ERP, financial and operational data into Foundry
- Design and extend the ontology (object types, links, actions) so it models the business in recognizable terms rather than ERP table names
- Debug across the full path, from source database to rendered table
- Integrate the surrounding systems
- Work on change-data-capture from Oracle, Azure services, Microsoft Graph, vendor APIs, and integration work from acquisitions
- Build monitoring, alerting and runbooks for the pipelines you own. Operations in five times zones depend on them.
- Raise the engineering bar
- Set patterns for project structure, testing, code review and documentation; use AI coding tools as part of your normal workflow
- Help bring work in-house from Palantir Professional Services and onboard engineers hired after you
Qualifications:
Basic:
- Strong Python — production services and data pipelines, not scripts
- Strong TypeScript and React — must have built and maintained production applications
- SQL fluency and the judgement to turn a messy source schema into something usable
- End-to-end delivery — must have shipped features spanning a database, a service and a UI
- Git fluency — branching, pull requests and code review are routine
- Comfort working directly with non-technical users — ability to understand needs and build without heavy product management
- Able to come into the Meatpacking HQ office 5 days per week
Preferred:
- Palantir Foundry experience — Ontology, Transforms, Pipeline Builder, OSDK or AIP (customer-side, forward-deployed, professional services or ex-Palantir all count)
- Streaming or change-data-capture experience (Kafka, Debezium or similar)
- Cloud infrastructure experience, ideally Azure
- Experience in aviation, manufacturing, logistics or another operations-heavy industry
- Data visualization libraries (Recharts, ECharts, D3 or similar)
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement: Our company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local
Skills Required
- Strong Python experience building production services and data pipelines
- Strong TypeScript and React experience building and maintaining production applications
- Fluency in SQL and ability to transform complex source schemas into usable data models
- End-to-end software delivery experience spanning a database, service, and user interface
- Git fluency, including branching, pull requests, and code review
- Ability to work directly with non-technical users and understand business needs
- Ability to work onsite at the Meatpacking HQ office five days per week
- Palantir Foundry experience, including Ontology, Transforms, Pipeline Builder, OSDK, or AIP
- Streaming or change-data-capture experience with Kafka, Debezium, or similar technologies
- Cloud infrastructure experience, ideally with Azure
- Experience in aviation, manufacturing, logistics, or another operations-heavy industry
- Experience with data visualization libraries such as Recharts, ECharts, or D3
What We Do
FTAI combines advanced turbine technology and asset ownership to power the world’s most essential markets. Additional information is available at https://www.ftaiaviation.com.
