Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.

Vast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications, reporting to the Senior Manager, Enterprise Applications, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. As a software engineer on our growing team, you’ll have an opportunity to learn and grow under the mentorship of seasoned engineers from aerospace and big tech, building powerful software that helps expand humanity into space.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to design and implement web applications using modern frontends and application servers that consume apis and micro-services in a heterogeneous environment


• Work with the team to design and implement backends including data modeling, apis, and supporting pipelines


• Rapidly iterate on tooling and design new applications as the company grows


• Influence and adopt software practices and patterns that will scale to what will eventually become a very large codebase and team

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, an engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience


• 6+ years of software development or relevant industry experience


• Experience building, shipping, and supporting complex, data-intensive full-stack software applications

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience working on ambiguous problems


• Experience working with multiple programming languages


• Experience with API Design


• Experience with one or more of the following platforms and frameworks
  
  
  
  • React, Vue, or similar
  
  
  • GraphQL
  
  
  • Nodejs
  
  
  • OAuth
  
  
  • Terraform
  
  
  • FastAPI
  
  
  • PostgresSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server
  
  
  
  

Pay Range:

• Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $125,000 - $171,500


• Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $155,000 - $196,000


• Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Applications: $177,600 - $235,500

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY