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Salary: USD 115,000 - 165,000 / annual
True Anomaly builds autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors to secure the space environment and counter threats. Software is central to the company's engineering thesis, bridging military objectives, astrodynamics, and human/autonomous control of spacecraft and ground systems.
In this role, you will design, develop, and sustain satellite command and control, mission planning, mission data processing, and data analysis software systems using Elixir. You'll bring your voice to team collaborations on architecture, design, and code reviews, and interact with engineers from various disciplines to create emergent results. This is a greenfield opportunity with ownership of challenging problems and the chance to fundamentally impact the outcome of future conflict and the company's future.
No aerospace or space ground systems experience is required—you'll be working on resilient, fault-tolerant systems that demand strong software engineering fundamentals. The role offers world-class benefits including platinum healthcare, flexible work hours, highly competitive compensation, and a generous stock options package.
**REQUIREMENTS:**
- Elixir software development experience
- Front-end experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline, or relevant equivalent experience
- Functional programming experience in Elixir, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Ruby, or F#
- Proven experience developing resilient and fault-tolerant architecture
- Demonstrated leadership ability, exceptional written and oral communication skills, and aptitude for working across disciplines
- Enjoys debugging and problem-solving in live systems
- Experience with distributed systems
- Strong bias towards understanding and rejecting the status quo
- U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance
- Must conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations (ITAR); must be U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from U.S. Department of State
**PREFERRED SKILLS:**
- Deep understanding of Elixir and OTP including BEAM scheduling, GenServers, run queues, and pg or the Actor model
- React, TypeScript, React Three Fiber/three.js
- OAuth2 and role-based access controls
- Deep understanding of network protocols
- PostgreSQL or MySQL database experience
- Monitoring and tracing in distributed systems
