Meet Slingshot

At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software.

We move fast, we're not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you're in engineering, sales, product, or operations. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place.

What You’ll Be Launching

As a Senior Integrator Software Engineer, you will design, build and integrate capabilities that advance the development of our products. You will deliver your own timely high-quality code and support your team by mentoring and providing support when needed. You’ll work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and other engineers to implement the right-sized solution that meets product requirements in a timely manner. You lead the effort in deploying and managing the on-premise software components. As the technical owner of an integration project, you will be a key advisor to senior leaders.

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Your Mission — Should You Choose to Accept It

• Own the overall technical leadership and direction for a portion of Slingshot’s integration projects, supporting your fellow team members to achieve success in a sustainable long-term manner

• Balance timely delivery with the operational stability of the overall system

• Foster an environment and culture of personal and professional growth

• Turn architecture ideas into technical specifications that can be executed by the team

• Leads integration lifecycle, from planning to on-prem deployment.

• Productionalized support of the architecture and capabilities developed by the team

• Coordinates technical design and implementation across teams to deliver customer requirements as extensions to core capabilities and deliver to onsite locations.

• Participate in customer engagements and lead technical discussions

• Act as a mentor for other team members

• Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of the responsibilities listed above)

Pre-flight Checklist

• 7+ years of experience in software development

• Served as a tech lead or equivalent role for 3+ years

• 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

• Experience using our stack or similar technologies (Java/Kotlin, Python, GraphQL, REST, Docker, React, TypeScript)

• Adept in working with cloud-based deployments (Azure, AWS) PaaS and IaaS offerings including some experience with Infrastructure-As-Code solutions

• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes

• Deep working knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions)

• Experience with event-driven architectures including Kafka and CloudEvents, data platforms, microservices, and distributed systems

• Leading initiatives to ensure unit and integration tests are part of the Definition of Done

• Knowledgeable in database design, performance, and troubleshooting (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)

• Skilled in collaborating with data scientists in incorporating AI/ML/LLM into existing software products

• Proficient in integrating complex external systems with APIs

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance

Bonus Cargo

• Possess security compliance accreditation such as NIST 800-53, DoD ILs, FedRAMP in higher-classification cloud or air-gapped environments and have experience supporting organizations to obtain accreditation

• Experience with fast-moving software technology startups and product organizations

• Knowledge of frontend technologies, specifically React, Three.js

• Demonstrated experience working in, or close collaboration with DevOps team members and infrastructure technology

• Familiarity with QA practice and collaboration

• Track record of supporting predictable software delivery with Product Team partners

• Prior Space and Aerospace Industry experience is a bonus but not required

• Experience with simulation technologies like HLA/DIS

*These skills are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed- if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply.

Location: Remote, Greater Colorado Springs Area

US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.