Senior Software Engineer, ASW Launch Ops

Stellenbeschreibung:

Build the operational platform covering site acquisition, infrastructure design, permitting, construction execution, deployment tracking, and launch readiness
Establish technical foundations for scaling Zipline from tens of sites to hundreds or thousands
Replace fragmented manual workflows with a unified, auditable, and automated operational system
Own critical product domains and their long-term technical health and strategic direction
Reduce manual coordination, shorten site-launch timelines, improve launch-date predictability, and provide visibility into execution, dependencies, and risk
Define APIs, data models, service boundaries, and architectural patterns
Build durable workflows supporting government and vendor interactions, physical assets, documents, permits, approvals, dependencies, state transitions, and exception handling
Create integrations across ERP, GIS, document management, permitting, construction and project management, asset management, and internal operational systems
Partner with users to create intuitive planning and execution tools, prototype workflows, validate them in real operating environments, and drive adoption
Build and operate business-critical services with health metrics, SLOs, observability, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms
Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and improve systems through postmortems
Ship production code, review critical changes, troubleshoot complex system behavior, and follow capabilities from discovery through operation
Drive alignment across technical and operational stakeholders
Mentor peers and strengthen practices in system design, automated testing, CI/CD, operational reliability, and pragmatic delivery

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience developing and maintaining full-stack production systems at scale, or demonstrated equivalent technical mastery
Ability to understand user needs, identify root causes, and design pragmatic solutions balancing business value, usability, technical simplicity, and maintainability
Ability to break down ambiguous operational problems and deliver software improving real-world processes
Strong fundamentals in maintainable system design, data modeling, robust APIs, frontend applications, backend services, distributed systems, and infrastructure
Experience modeling long-running workflows, external dependencies, physical assets, and complex state transitions with auditability, observability, and failure recovery
Experience building reliable integrations between internal services and external or enterprise systems
Comfort learning and working across Python, Go, PostgreSQL, React, Kafka, gRPC, AWS, Grafana, and Honeycomb
Thoughtful use of AI throughout design, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review
Ability to define service-health metrics and reliability goals, create runbooks, participate in on-call rotations, and drive improvements through incident reviews
Experience shipping high-impact capabilities with quantifiable results
Clear communication, decisive prioritization, and cross-functional influence without formal authority
Ability to balance speed with correctness and understand operational consequences in safety-critical operations

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining full-stack production systems, with a focus on operational efficiency, system design, and integration across various platforms. Capable of leading technical direction, mentoring peers, and driving improvements in system reliability and user experience.