Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
About The Position
Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise. Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field
- Deep expertise with backend building RESTful APIs and scalable containerized applications through Kubernetes or related frameworks
- Expertise with one or more cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Experience with designing data models for custom complex applications
- Hands-on experience integrating Gen AI via API and a familiarity with employing RAG in custom applications
- Knowledge of visualization technologies such as D3.js, Plotly, Grafana, Superset, or related technologies.
- Exceptional analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams
- Clear communication skills that are essential for working across diverse stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Solid foundation in building tools for hardware, IoT, especially processing and analyzing time-series data
- Experience building with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to connect data sources to LLMs
- Previous experience with coaching and managing a small engineering team
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Experience in aerospace or a related field, particularly with flight test data analysis and aircraft health monitoring
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable full-stack web applications that automate workflows for engineering, operations, and other stakeholders across the business
- Work directly with internal customers to gather requirements, iterate on UI/UX, and drive adoption of new tools and other stakeholders.
- Develop, deploy and scale time series datasets and enable analytics, anomaly detection & visualization over them.
- Own data orchestration using tools like Prefect or Apache Airflow to schedule, monitor, and scale recurring data workflows.
- Work with our Data Engineering Team to build a custom web app to conduct complex data reviews following flight tests. Partner with key engineering stakeholders to iterate on new features and drive adoption.
- Manage the CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure required to host internal tools securely.
- Mentor a team of engineers working on deploying custom internal tools.
Benefits
- pay-for-performance culture
- reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
