Senior Software Engineer - FlightAware Backend; Onsite

Location

US-TX-HOUSTON-011 ~ 11 Greenway Plz ~ GREENWAY, Ste 2900

United States of America

US-TX-HOUSTON-011 ~ 11 Greenway Plz ~ GREENWAY, Ste 2900

Onsite

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Are you interested in engineering backend software for numerous web-based products that generate billions of views for industry partners and consumers?

Flight Aware has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 180+ million incoming messages an hour from over 34,000 individual data feeds—5 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

Flight Aware's Backend crew builds state-of-the-art systems that power the Flight Aware website and mobile apps used by millions of people. The Backend crew is at the heart of Flight Aware’s SaaS integration. The Backend wing is responsible to maintain a single source of truth for each flight tracked by Flight Aware. All of the communication about a flight that starts days before its departure through its ultimate arrival are coordinated by the Backend systems.

These systems range from data feeds that track aircraft, airport and gates to systems which dispatch live flight updates to web and mobile maps or the alerts you receive when an aircraft is delayed. Additionally, the Backend crew develops interfaces for product account self‑service and SaaS account integration with subscription management, billing and accounting services.

As a Flight Aware software engineer, you’ll be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future‑reaching organization. We attract engineers with a passion for aviation and data. Our team champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry‑leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support in order to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example.

You’ll get to learn alongside talented senior engineers and share your own expertise.

Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires  look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

• You will contribute to building new features from scratch and bring them all the way to production.
• You Will contribute to building and scaling out Flight Aware’s backend infrastructure that encompasses our streaming data feeds, databases, queueing systems, compute infrastructure, and analysis engines.
• Work to ensure customers have a seamless self‑service account management experience, extending integration with subscription, billing information and accounting management systems.
• Work to ensure that customers' access to services are secure and correctly provisioned according to the products they have purchased.
• You will work together with teams across Flight Aware to deliver cloud native microservices that power our website, mobile apps, data reporting, and more.
• You will write high‑quality, well‑tested code to meet the needs of your customers—some of the largest airlines and airports in the world.

• You will develop your technical acumen by working with cutting‑edge, in‑demand technologies including Go, Rust, Python, Kubernetes,…