Software Engineer

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Job description

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Maxar is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Platforms Ordering team. This is a hybrid/remote position located in the Westminster, CO area.

Life with Us

Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost effectiveness.

You will be part of the Platform Ordering team responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining APIs for the Maxar Geospatial Platform. The software you build will support commercial, USG, and International customers. Additionally, you will be responsible for helping to lead small development teams across multiple product families and use cases.

Your Career

In this role, you will help lead development teams, develop, test, and operate highly-available and scalable full-stack software that enables the streaming, downloading, and ordering of Maxar data holdings for commercial and government use. We are investing heavily in modernizing and unifying our software products, where you will play a vital role. You will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities
Be a leader within the smaller, focused development teams which contribute to our overall Platform APIs. These APIs will impact a wide array of products, and as such will require post-deployment support.

Develop back-end software for high-performance, data processing systems within an Agile team environment.

Perform peer reviews, create test cases and procedures to verify software functionality.

Help architect particular features and capabilities, as well as document the ensuing implementation choices.

Participate in software requirements evaluation, generation, design, implementation, and testing discussions.

Minimum Requirements:

Must be a US citizen or permanent resident

4-6 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree

Programming experience with Python and Java

Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab)

Exposure to database technologies and management principles

Experience building services on AWS, including use of serverless computing technologies

Experience with a large shared monolithic codebase and continuous integration and deployment workflows and tooling

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with query languages (SQL, PL/SQL) and databases (relational, NoSQL, and graph databases e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j)

Experience with utilizing automated testing and linting (PyTest, Black, Flake8, Radon, iSort)

Experience with user-interface design and development

A background developing REST API endpoints

Experience with service-oriented and microservice architectures

Strong written communications

Highly focused self-starter that likes solving problems

Passion for learning and teaching new technical skills

In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$89,000.00 - $189,000.00 annually.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at:

This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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