Software Engineer - Backend

Swoop Search

$90K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent technical experience
  • 3+ years in backend software development focused on scalable code and modern APIs
  • Proficient in Python with a solid grasp of data structures and models
  • Experience with Kubernetes in production settings
  • Familiarity with software security standards
  • Active US Security clearance or ability to attain one
  • Willingness to travel 5-20% as required

Responsibilities

  • Develop and build new services and features in collaboration with internal teams
  • Design and create SDKs for both internal and external use
  • Author new Python packages for common functionality across services
  • Ensure high availability and meet service level agreements for code base
  • Optimize data storage for scale and near real-time availability in streaming architecture

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with flexibility to work in-office 3+ days per week
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge API and software development challenges
  • Collaboration with diverse technical teams including firmware, frontend, and infrastructure
  • Exposure to innovative applications in a scalable ecosystem
  • Potential for professional growth in a tech-forward environment
Full Job Description
This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week

Impact:

Swoop's operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re-imagined in how Swoop's OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user-facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.

What You'll Do:
  • Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
  • Design and build SDK's for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
  • Author new Python packages for common functionality used across multiple services.
  • Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
  • Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real-time availability in a streaming architecture.


You Should Have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
  • 3+ yrs in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
  • Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
  • Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
  • Understanding of basic software security standards
  • Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance
  • Travel Requirement - 5-20%


Bonus if you have:
  • Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
  • Experience handling multimedia data structures

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