Software Developer – Ground Control System (GCS)

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Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, PRT
In-Office
Junior
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Robotics • Defense
The Role
Develop and maintain C#/.NET backend components for a mission-critical Ground Control System used in unmanned aircraft operations. Responsibilities include real-time telemetry, mission planning, payload control, APIs, messaging, asynchronous pipelines, concurrency, observability, testing, CI/CD, and architectural improvements. The role also supports AI-assisted agentic development, automation, and internal engineering tools.
Summary Generated by Built In

Mission:

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Developer to help design, build, and evolve TEKEVER’s Ground Control System — the core software that plans, monitors, and controls our unmanned aircraft missions.

In this role, you will contribute across different GCS initiatives depending on business needs, from real-time flight systems to mission tooling, payload control, comms/messaging, and operator workflows. You will also play a key role in our transition towards an agentic development approach, enabling more autonomy, automation, and AI-assisted engineering across the team.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex technical environments, values high ownership, and wants to help shape the future of a mission-critical product used globally.

What You’ll Do:

1. Technical Ownership & Delivery

  • Design, build, and maintain backend components of the Ground Control System using C#/.NET.

  • Implement robust real-time systems that manage telemetry, mission planning, payload operations, and operator workflows.

  • Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across different modules of the GCS codebase.

  • Contribute to modernizing architecture, tools, and engineering practices as the system evolves.

2. Architecture & System Design

  • Design APIs, messaging flows, asynchronous pipelines, and multi-threaded components for high-reliability environments.

  • Contribute to architectural decisions around modularity, data flows, error-handling, and system decomposition.

  • Work with classification systems, message processors, payload interfaces, and complex stateful components.

  • Help shape architectural direction in collaboration with software architects and product owners.

3. Agentic Development & Automation

As part of TEKEVER’s agentic engineering roadmap, you will:

  • Use AI/LLM-based tools to accelerate development, refactoring, documentation, and testing.

  • Support the design of internal autonomous agents that assist with coding, validation, CI/CD, and documentation.

  • Promote automation and tooling that reduces manual effort and increases engineering leverage.

  • Help define safe, reviewable, and high-quality AI-assisted workflows for the team.

4. Quality, Reliability & Operations

  • Ensure high-quality code through strong testing strategies, clean patterns, and consistent documentation.

  • Analyse complex performance and concurrency issues, especially in real-time data environments.

  • Improve system observability through structured logging, instrumentation, and monitoring.

  • Collaborate with DevOps and QA to ensure smooth delivery pipelines and reproducible builds.


What We’re Looking For:

Experience

  • 2+ years of professional software development experience.

  • Background in C# and .NET (Framework and/or .NET 6+).

  • Experience building real-time, high-availability, or mission-critical systems.

  • Experience with large desktop or client applications (WPF experience is a plus).

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in C#, async programming, multi-threading, and memory management.

  • Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, or event-driven workflows.

  • Familiarity with: Messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.); Docker / containerisation; CI/CD tooling (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.); Observability stacks (ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana); Data streaming or real-time telemetry

  • Experience with WPF/MVVM or desktop application architecture is an advantage.

Mindset & Soft Skills

  • Strong sense of ownership and engineering autonomy.

  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute to architectural decisions.

  • Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and system-design thinking.

  • Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset.

  • Enthusiasm for automation, AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement.

Why Join TEKEVER GCS

  • Work on software that powers real UAV operations around the world.

  • Influence architecture, tooling, and engineering practices across the GCS product line.

  • Help drive TEKEVER’s transition to agentic engineering and AI-assisted development.

  • Join a team that values autonomy, collaboration, and technical excellence.

  • Contribute to meaningful, high-impact missions across maritime, defence, and civil applications.

Do you want to know more about us ?

Visit our LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekever/

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of professional software development experience
  • Professional experience with C# and .NET Framework or .NET 6+
  • Experience building real-time, high-availability, or mission-critical systems
  • Proficiency in asynchronous programming, multithreading, and memory management
  • Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, or event-driven workflows
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and system-design skills
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with large desktop or client applications
  • WPF/MVVM or desktop application architecture experience
  • Familiarity with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
  • Familiarity with Docker or containerization
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins
  • Familiarity with observability stacks such as ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, or Grafana
  • Experience with data streaming or real-time telemetry
  • Enthusiasm for automation and AI-assisted development

TEKEVER Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TEKEVER and has not been reviewed or approved by TEKEVER.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health insurance, including Private Medical Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program are highlighted as core parts of the package. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and aimed at supporting wellbeing.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Annual leave commonly cited at around 25 days plus local bank holidays indicates a generous time-off policy. Flexible and hybrid working models complement the leave structure to support work-life balance.
  • Retirement Support — Company pension plans, including a match of up to 10% in some UK roles, are frequently emphasized. This level of contribution is portrayed as a strong component of total compensation.

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The Company
1,300 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

TEKEVER is a pan-European technology company developing AI-driven autonomous systems for civil and defence missions. It designs, manufactures and operates unmanned aerial systems, while providing data and intelligence services, AI-based analytics, mission management and training. Its capabilities support surveillance, search and rescue, maritime patrol, border security, emergency response and environmental monitoring through integrated operational solutions for customers worldwide.

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