Senior Software Engineer, ASW Launch Ops

• 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.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Full-Stack Production Systems
• System Design
• API Development
• Operational Reliability
• Integration Development

Hard Skills

• Python
• Go
• PostgreSQL
• React
• Kafka
• GRPC
• AWS
• Grafana
• Honeycomb
• Data Modeling

Soft Skills

• Clear Communication
• Decisive Prioritization
• Cross-Functional Influence

Industry Keywords

• Site Acquisition
• Infrastructure Design
• Permitting
• Construction Execution
• Deployment Tracking

Tools & Technologies

• ERP Systems
• GIS
• Document Management
• Project Management
• Asset Management