Staff Software Engineer
$150,000–$180,000 year
On-site · Denver, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Staff Software Engineer needed to own end-to-end software for Urban Sky's manufacturing operation, a full-stack MRP system tracking inventory, work orders, BOMs, quality holds, and serialized parts from receiving through final integration. You will design, build, deploy, and operate the shop-floor software used by technicians, logisticians, and quality inspectors, with emphasis on reliability, traceability, and auditability in an AS9100-regulated aerospace environment. You’ll own meaningful areas of the stack across backend, frontend, and infrastructure, lead architectural decisions, and collaborate directly with operators and stakeholders to translate complex physical processes into robust software. The role emphasizes ownership, rapid shipping of production code, and iterative improvement, with AI-assisted development as a core part of the SDLC.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in system design, data structures, and architecture
- Experience building and operating backend systems at scale
- Solid instincts for data modeling, schema design, and SQL
- Comfort with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices
- Experience owning production systems in environments that evolve quickly
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate as priorities shift
- Proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript, React, SQL, and modern web development tools
Desired Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong fundamentals in system design, data structures, and architecture
- Experience building and operating backend systems at scale
- Solid instincts for data modeling, schema design, and SQL
- Comfort with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices
- Experience owning production systems in environments that evolve quickly
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate as priorities shift
- Mentoring others and raising the bar for the team
- Learning quickly and adjusting course as new information emerges
- TypeScript and modern web development
- Designing clean APIs and well-structured monoliths
- Thinking carefully about data models, schemas, and migrations
- Infrastructure, reliability, and operational excellence
- Technologies (not a checklist) such as TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Vite, Mantine UI, tRPC, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Playwright, AWS, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines
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