[Hiring] Software Engineering Manager @Slingshot Aerospace

Role Description

We're seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building the backend services, APIs, and integrations that connect Slingshot products, customer environments, third-party platforms, and vendor-provided capabilities.

• Directly responsible for the performance, development, and day-to-day execution of a software engineering team.
• Create clarity around priorities, help engineers grow in their careers, remove delivery blockers, and foster a healthy team culture built on accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Collaborate on technical direction for the systems owned by your team.
• Guide architectural decisions and ensure integrations are secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with broader product objectives.
• Develop consistent and scalable approaches to product integration.
• Establish clear API contracts, data exchange patterns, testing strategies, and operational practices.
• Keep internal teams and external partners aligned throughout delivery.

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience in backend, platform, distributed-system, or integration-focused environments.
• Strong systems architecture and technical design capabilities.
• Experience directly managing or formally leading a software engineering team.
• Experience managing team priorities, capacity, technical dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Experience designing, building, or operating RESTful APIs, service-oriented or microservice architectures, event-driven systems, and resilient integration workflows.
• Experience with Kotlin, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, Kafka, and Typescript.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices.
• Active or prior TS/SCI clearance.

Requirements

• Experience working with external vendors, technology partners, customer engineering teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Judgment and communication skills to balance technical quality, delivery needs, team health, and long-term maintainability.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity with approximately 20% travel to customer, vendor, partner, and Slingshot locations.
• Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.

Company Description

At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world.