Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Jobs at Icarus

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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

El Segundo

$120,000-$220,000 / year

full-timesenioraerospace

Tech Stack

Description

You will build and own end-to-end software systems that power flight operations, autonomy, and user interaction at Icarus, developing mission-critical backend services and clean frontends for ground control and monitoring. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ship tightly integrated systems and take them from concept to production with speed and ownership.

Requirements

2+ years building real full-stack software in production
Strong backend experience (Python, Go, Rust, or similar)
Strong frontend experience (React, TypeScript, or similar)
Experience designing APIs, databases, and distributed systems
Comfort working close to hardware, real-time systems, or operational data

Responsibilities

Build and own end-to-end software systems for flight operations, autonomy, and user interaction
Develop mission-critical backend services for telemetry, command and control, data ingestion, and analytics
Build clean, fast frontends for ground control, monitoring, and operator workflows
Design APIs and data pipelines connecting aircraft, ground stations, and users
Support flight test, field ops, and rapid iteration using real flight data

Jobs at Icarus

Mission Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere. What it’s like to work here At Icarus, we build solar-powered birds that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time. This is not a normal engineering job. We are pioneers, not corporate managers. Icarus deliberately optimizes for a high signal (engineers) to noise (management) ratio, where engineering, flight, and execution matter more than process, politics, or management overhead. You will work side by side with the CEO and a small team of world-class builders. You will own your subsystem end to end. Design it. Build it. Break it. Fix it. Validate it in the desert. Fly it. Then do it again, faster. We expect full extreme ownership. This is a high-trust, no-BS team, and everyone pulls their weight. We are hiring across the stack: mechanical, aerodynamics, RF, GNC, electrical, avionics, power electronics, energy storage, software, and systems. We want builders. No hand-holding. No fluff. No fake projects. No slide decks. No sitting in meetings all day. Just raw engineering, real hardware, and real flight. You must thrive under pressure, learn fast, troubleshoot in the field, and push hardware to its limits. We move fast. We go to Mojave at 4…

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