Software Engineer - Backend

About Swoop

At Swoop, we’re on a mission to rapidly integrate our most critical infrastructure, National Security assets, and leading‑edge innovation – a mission that fundamentally changes the future of how we connect. Working in stealth mode, our team has developed and fielded SwoopOS—an integrated platform of interoperable products to map, secure, and intelligently orchestrate device infrastructure at the edge. Whether it’s legacy or next‑gen equipment, Swoop allows systems to be interoperable, modernized, and their purposes reimagined all through software.

If you want to be a part of an incredible team—high energy and creative, disruptive with exquisite technical acumen, and bounded by a core commitment to integrity and National Security…apply today!

This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in‑office 3+ days per week.

Swoop’s operating system challenges many paradigms defining a scalable API. Management, security, and interoperability each will be re‑imagined in how Swoop’s OS exposes interfaces to inputs and outputs within the stack. You will have a role developing APIs that Swoop developers leverage to build user‑facing applications running on the Swoop platform. These APIs will be further leveraged and exposed to 3rd parties to develop an ecosystem of novel applications running on the Swoop OS.

• Develop and build new services and features, working closely internally with our firmware team to interface with the SwoopOS, our frontend team to support our web application, and our infrastructure team to deliver a stable product to market.
• Design and build SDKs for internal and external use, working with 3rd parties as they develop applications to run on our OS.
• Work to standardize the manner in which we implement data structure handling, e.g. how we handle byte arrays across all parts of our code base.
• Ensure our services have strong availability and service level agreements across our code base, especially as it pertains to the runtime of our Kubernetes cluster in production.
• Tune data storage configurations to optimize for scale and near real‑time availability in a streaming architecture.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• 3+ years in backend software development writing scalable code and/or modern APIs structured from databases and distributed data sources
• Proficient Python coding ability with good understanding of data structures and data models
• Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Understanding of basic software security standards

• Experience with one or more of the following: async Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rust
• Experience handling multimedia data structures

Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

$125K — $190K offers equity

Our salary ranges are determined by role and location, and reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across the US. Within this range, compensation for this position will be determined by work location, relevant qualifications, experience, job‑related skills, market conditions, and other factors.