Job Description

About X-Bow:

X-Bow Systems is a cutting-edge aerospace technology company focused on revolutionizing solid propellant propulsion systems for space exploration and defense applications. Our team of innovative engineers and scientists is committed to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in rocket propulsion and manufacturing.

About the Role:

X-Bow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex systems problems, designing distributed architectures, and building platforms that transform how aerospace and defense engineering is performed.

In this role you will develop core capabilities underpinning our Digital Engineering ecosystem, including communication infrastructure, workflow automation, engineering applications, lifecycle information services, and visualization tools.

This is a highly collaborative role working alongside systems engineers, data engineers, data scientists and domain specialists. The ideal candidate will be capable of taking ownership of software capabilities from concept through deployment, working closely with stakeholders to translate engineering challenges into production quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable backend services and event-driven capabilities supporting engineering workflows and information exchange across multiple systems.
• Develop APIs and services powering internal applications and engineering tools
• Design mechanisms for discovering, navigating, and contextualizing engineering information
• Collaborate with data engineers to develop metadata models, information services, and data processing pipelines
• Build user-facing applications, dashboards, and visualization capabilities
• Extend and maintain existing custom engineering applications including materials, testing, and analytics platforms
• Partner with domain experts to transform complex engineering processes into intuitive software experiences
• Contribute to platform architecture, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability

Desired Skills:

Strong experience in several of the following:

• Python
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• FastAPI, Flask, or similar backend frameworks
• SQL
• REST APIs
• Messaging brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQT, etc)
• Docker
• Kubernettes
• Azure, AWS
• Git and CI/CD tooling
• Distributed systems design
• Microservice architectures

Helpful but not required:

• Graph databases
• GraphQL
• Search technologies (Elastisearch, OpenSearch, Solr)
• Workflow platforms
• Data pipelines
• Manufacturing or industrial software
• PLM, ERP, or MBSE familiarity

Education:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar.

Location:

Remote work is possible, but hybrid is preferred in one of our primary engineering locations of Austin TX, Huntsville, AL or Salt Lake City UT.