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Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Hivemind Shared Services Engineering team. The Shared Services team builds and operates common services, SDKs, APIs, and customer-facing applications that connect Shield's products across autonomy software, aircraft platforms, and simulation technologies.
In this role, you will work across the full stack—from customer-facing web applications to backend services and product integrations. You'll partner with product and engineering teams to understand shared needs, transform ambiguous problems into durable, reusable solutions, and own your work from design through production operation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and operate full-stack applications, backend services, SDKs, and APIs
- Contribute to shared authentication, telemetry integrations, the Customer Support Portal, and future public telemetry APIs
- Partner with cross-functional teams to develop reusable capabilities that reduce duplicated engineering
- Establish secure, reliable, documented, and versioned interfaces for internal engineering teams and external customers
- Own solutions end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
- Contribute to technical direction through design reviews, thoughtful tradeoffs, and collaboration
Required qualifications:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated technical judgment in designing and operating full-stack applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems
- Systems thinking and ability to turn recurring or ambiguous needs into coherent, reusable solutions
- Track record of owning production software from initial design through operation and continuous improvement
- Effective collaboration and communication across engineering, product, and organizational stakeholders
Preferred qualifications include experience creating shared capabilities adopted across multiple products, depth in identity/authentication, public APIs/SDKs, or OpenTelemetry/telemetry data, building modern web applications with backend services, and building secure software in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
