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Blue Origin · 23 hours ago

Software Engineer III

Huntsville, AL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $231K/yr

5+ years exp

Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. They are seeking a Software Engineer III to support the development of software applications that enhance efficiency in their Engines business unit, with a focus on aerospace applications and tool deployment.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop full stack web applications to visualize the status of inventory and production data

Create front-end GUI’s and back-end API’s

Write code in multiple languages & frameworks such as: Javascript/Typescript, HTML, React, Next.js, CSS, MaterialUI, Bash scripts, etc

Identify the need for more efficient algorithms & data structures and request assistance from senior developers in implementing as appropriate

Implement security best-practices such as API authentication with SAML & OAuth

Create Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Jobs to extract data from source systems, transform the data with business logic, and load materialized-data-views into local databases for fast retrieval

Write REST, SQL, & GraphQL, queries to retrieve data

Design & implement efficient database schemas (normalized and NoSQL) as appropriate

Interface directly with internal customers and subject-matter-experts during the full software product development life cycle to assess their problems, create prototypes, and continuously improve software

Work with other Blue Origin business units (i.e. Enterprise Technology & Site Reliability Engineering) in a friendly & collaborative manner as appropriate to facilitate cross-department collaboration & harmony

Strive to continuously improve the process of developing and deploying new software prototypes

Strike the appropriate balance between building quickly and accruing minimal technical debt

Pay down technical debt over time as appropriate

Create project plans & keep project task lists up to date (i.e. Jira boards)

Ensure business continuity in the absence of any given team member by thoroughly documenting source codes, architectures, and deployments, and ensuring multiple team members have (secure) access to key credentials, code repositories, and data stores

Attend daily technical standup meetings and be on-call to support production application issues

Work onsite at a Blue office

Mentor junior developers and perform code reviews

Take ownership of medium-sized projects & initiatives with minimal oversight

Involved in the full lifecycle of customer communication from gathering initial requirements to obtaining feedback on new features

Maintain responsibility for uptime of software applications

Provide input into project plans, schedules, & budgets

Qualification

JavaScriptReactNode.jsSQLAWSGitETLNoSQLAlgorithmsCode ReviewsProject ManagementMentoringCollaboration

Required

Computer Science Degree or equivalent work experience and at least 5 years of development experience, including the following:

Front-end skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6, Typescript, JSX, React), UX/UI design, data visualization, front-end styling frameworks such as Tailwind, MaterialUI, Bootstrap, etc

Back-end expertise: Creating web servers & APIs with Node.js and/or other server-side web frameworks (e.g. Next.js, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, Flask, etc), fetching data from APIs (REST & GraphQL)

Database proficiency: Writing complex SQL database queries with many joins in highly normalized databases, designing normalized database schemas

DevOps' experience: Deploying websites to cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, Gcloud, Heroku, etc)

Version control experience: Git or Subversion

Experience in Algorithms & Data Structures: Strong understanding & working experience, or willingness & ability to continue education to learn

Experience leading junior software developers & performing code reviews

Experience leading projects

Preferred

Proficiency in implementing algorithms, graph, and tree traversal algorithms

Work experience in non-software engineering fields such as manufacturing, operations & logistics, mechanical engineering, and/or aerospace/rocket/propulsion engineering

Strong ability and passion for presenting complex data sets in simple and easy-to-understand ways

Experience working with pub/sub message brokers like Redis or Kafka

Proficiency in NoSQL databases

Expertise in deploying applications across various cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

Hands-on experience deploying AWS services including ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, and S3

Deployment of docker containers to Kubernetes using CI/CD pipelines

Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD, and AWS CDK

Experience in managing data pipelines for large, distributed datasets in an enterprise environment

Domain expertise in inventory control and/or MRP software

Experience leading large projects

Experience in Lean Startup project management philosophy