Flightradar24

Senior Aviation Platform Engineer

Flightradar24  •  Stockholm, SE (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Flightradar24 is one of the most successful growth-stage tech companies in Stockholm. Each month more than 50 million aviation enthusiasts visit Flightradar24 (app/website) and our Commercial services team has many of the biggest names in aviation on its customer list.

We are looking for a Senior Aviation Platform Engineer, who can quickly understand existing systems, work independently, and deliver value from day one. You will play a key role in evolving our aviation data and improving flight matching algorithms, working closely with other engineers and stakeholders. You will be part of a platform engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data solutions in AWS. The work includes both hands-on development and architectural decision-making.

The position requires that you are able to work in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation is not offered for this role.

What you’ll do

Your responsibilities include

  • Real-time aircraft telemetry

  • Global receiver networks (ADS-B, Mode-S, MLAT)

  • Noisy radio data

  • Flight trajectory processing and reconstruction

  • Aviation data pipelines

  • Geo-spatial computation

  • Airspace analytics

  • Aircraft state vectors

  • Large-scale historical flight datasets

  • Work with data that powers aviation insights

    • access to the largest open aircraft surveillance dataset in the world

    • systems used by millions of aviation enthusiasts every month

    • data that contributes to accident investigations and aviation safety

Who you are

  • Has several years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems

  • Is self-driven and comfortable making technical decisions independently

  • Can quickly understand and work within an existing codebase and architecture

  • Values clean code, testing, automation, and pragmatic engineering practices

  • Communicates clearly and professionally in English

About Flightradar24

Flightradar24 is the leading flight tracking and aviation data provider, leveraging the world’s largest ADS-B network. Our B2C platform serves millions, while our B2B solutions empower airlines, airports, and aviation stakeholders with essential operational insights.

All this is made possible thanks to our globally distributed network of 55,000+ radio receivers that feed real-time aircraft data into the Flightradar24 platform. Over a billion database entries are added each month and we are processing several years of historical data totalling many terabytes. Our proprietary flight tracking data is industry leading and even investigative government agencies from around the world rely on it for aviation accident investigations.

Benefits of working at Flightradar24 include:

  • Opportunity to impact a service with millions of end users from all around the world

  • Contribute to the value which Flightradar24 creates both for B2C and B2B but also for humanity.

  • Modern office in the heart of beautiful downtown Stockholm, Sweden

  • Being part of a diverse team

  • Flexible and social work environment with free beverages, fruit, and snacks

Flightradar24

About Flightradar24

Flightradar24 tracks positions of aircraft in real-time and turns that data into engaging consumer and business applications. The data comes primarily from a proprietary, crowd-sourced network of 50,000+ so-called ADS-B receivers hosted by private individuals and companies all over the world and tracks 250,000+ flights per day. This network of ADS-B receivers is the largest in the world.

In addition to ADS-B data, Flightradar24 is able to get positional data for non-ADS-B equipped aircraft through the use of Multilateration (MLAT). The ADS-B and MLAT data is merged with schedule and flight status data from airlines and airports to create a unique flight tracking experience. You can read more about how Flightradar24 works here:

http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

Each day Flightradar24 has over 5 million unique users and our app has been the #1 selling app overall in Apple’s App Store in over 130 countries. Most airlines and many other companies in the aviation industry (including Airbus, Boeing and Embraer) use our services. The Flightradar24 app has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Flightradar24 is frequently featured in the media:

Wall Street Journal

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-men-who-know-where-every-flight-is-1440610114

Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/18/us-airlines-flightradar-idUSKBN0O31Q720150518

The Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204838/Rush-hour-skies-Real-time-map-shows-plane-air-right-now.html

Bild

http://www.bild.de/digital/handy-und-telefon/apps/neue-live-apps-fuer-das-smartphone-25031054.bild.html

Le Monde

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/07/02/une-application-pour-savoir-ou-vont-ces-avions-qui-passent-dans-le-ciel

Industry
Aviation & Aerospace
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Stockholm, SE
Year Founded
2006
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