Full Stack Software Engineer
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Summary
Redwire, a space and defense technology company, is hiring a full stack software engineer (all levels, 1-5 years) to build end-to-end software for its simulation, digital-engineering, and mission-system platforms - developing React/TypeScript frontends plus high-performance Python/C++/Rust backend services, APIs, and real-time data pipelines for aerospace and defense missions.
Redwire is an innovative space and defense technology company driving advanced capabilities across the aerospace sector. We are looking for a leader who can contribute to concept of operations development, mission solution design, and strategic analysis for spacecraft programs supporting National Security Space. This includes work spanning space domain awareness, space resiliency, mission autonomy, structures, sensors, and next‑generation space systems.
The Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining end‑to‑end software capabilities that power the company’s simulation, digital‑engineering, and mission‑system platforms. This role blends modern frontend engineering, high‑performance backend development, and systems‑level thinking to ensure that user interfaces, APIs, data pipelines, and real‑time services are coherent, scalable, secure, and aligned with mission and product objectives. You will develop advanced React interfaces, implement high‑throughput backend services in Python/C++/Rust, integrate with distributed systems and simulation workflows, and collaborate closely with systems
engineers, mission analysts, UI/UX designers, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable, data‑rich, and performance‑critical applications across aerospace and defense environments.
Major Responsibilities
- Design and build full‑stack software capabilities supporting simulation, digital‑engineering, and mission‑system workflows.
- Develop advanced frontend interfaces using TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and scalable UI architectures.
- Implement high‑performance backend services in Python, C++, or Rust for APIs, microservices, and real‑time pipelines.
- Integrate with distributed systems including simulation engines, data pipelines, and mission‑analysis tools.
- Design and maintain APIs including REST, GraphQL, and gRPC interfaces with strong schema governance.
- Build real‑time processing pipelines supporting deterministic, concurrent, or multi‑threaded execution.
- Develop complex visualization tools for physics‑based simulations and real‑time system behavior.
- Ensure reliability and observability through logging, metrics, tracing, error handling, and automated testing.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines including systems, mission analysis, UI/UX, and DevOps.
- Contribute to CI/CD and engineering rigor through testing, code reviews, and Git‑driven workflows.
Ideal Experience
- STEM foundation — Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related STEM field.
- Full‑stack engineering experience — 1–5 years building production systems across frontend and backend domains.
- Systems‑level understanding — Concurrency, distributed systems, data modeling, caching, and performance optimization.
- Modern frontend expertise — TypeScript/JavaScript, React, and contemporary UI engineering practices.
- Core web fundamentals — HTML, CSS, browser internals, rendering pipelines, and performance constraints.
- Advanced React patterns — Hooks, context architectures, compound components, scalable state management.
- Design systems & component architecture — Component libraries, design systems, CSS‑in‑JS, modular CSS, utility‑first approaches.
- Complex visualization work — Physics‑based simulations, engineering workflows, real‑time system behavior.
- Backend integration fluency — REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets.
Pay range
$102,000 - $128,000 per year
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Redwire Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with MIS is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
All offers of employment at Redwire Space are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the Click Here
EXPORT CONTROL REQUIREMENTS:
This position may require access to information, materials, or technology subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR") and/or the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"). To comply with these regulations, applicants may be asked to provide documentation to verify their status as a "U.S. person" as defined under the ITAR and EAR, or their eligibility to obtain any required U.S. Government export authorization. Redwire complies with all applicable anti-discrimination laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, and does not discriminate on the basis of citizenship status or national origin except as required by law.
This position may require access to information, materials, or technology subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ("ITAR") and/or the Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"). To comply with these regulations, applicants may be asked to provide documentation to verify their status as a "U.S. person" as defined under the ITAR and EAR, or their eligibility to obtain any required U.S. Government export authorization. Redwire complies with all applicable anti-discrimination laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act, and does not discriminate on the basis of citizenship status or national origin except as required by law.