Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run.
We want you as a talented Senior Software Engineer to help us in our mission by leading the development of our in-house Model-Based System (MBSE) Engineering tool suite, and the integration of the MBSE tools into the flight software to improve our engineering efficiency.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

In your capacity as a Senior Software Engineer, your role will be continuously evolving, but day to day your duties will include:

• Design and architecture of complex software tools
• Implementation of command line tools for Model-Based System Engineering
• Building integration tests for the MBSE tools
• Release management for the MBSE tools
• Documentation and user training
• Development and test of flight software configuration and code generation tools
• Build-up of a tool to develop the MBSE and flight software tooling
• Schedule and backlog management

In the role of Senior Software Engineer ideally, you will have the following:

• Expert level knowledge with at least one general purpose programming language
• Very good experience with Python
• Very good understanding of patterns in software engineering
• Experience with development and testing of user facing software applications
• Experience with agile software development philosophy
• Experience with backlog management
• Readiness to work in a fast-paced environment with strict deadlines
• A plus would be
• Work with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Experience with data modeling, management and governance
• Experience designing APIs
• Databases working knowledge
• Knowledge of other programming languages, but specially JavaScript and/or C/C++
• Experience working in the space industry, or other industries using an MBSE approac