Maxar Intelligence is seeking a Software Engineering Manager of Streaming APIs & Scalability to join our Maxar Geospatial Platform Core team, which is based in Westminster, CO.
Job Description:
Maxar's MGP Core engineering team is growing and we're looking for aSoftware Engineering Manager of Streaming APIs to join Maxar in our innovative team and contribute to our Maxar Geospatial Platform initiative. This engineering team falls under Maxar's Customer Platforms and Insights organization, working on a unified platform powering applications used by all of Maxar's customers. We're looking for a manager that is inspired by mentoring a talented group of world-class engineers, scaling our development efforts, and partnering with product to ideate and deliver exceptional products.
This position is located in Denver, Colorado or can be performed remotely. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Life with Us
Your Project: Lead development and oversee the execution of our Streaming APIs & Scalability team. This engineering effort includes delivering Maxar APIs with high availability, performance, and scale. Delivering Maxar's industry leading geospatial data and analytics to our customers. You will work with cross-functional engineering leads on delivering roadmaps, understanding requirements, and building out the next generation platform for Maxar API products.
Your Career: We're very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your supervisor to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.
What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, remote work, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
What you'll do day-to-day:
Embrace and uphold Maxar's Core Values: We Put the Mission First, We Work Better Together, We Stay Curious, We Act Like Owners, We Do it Right, and You Matter.
Work with Product Management to prioritize, scope and plan business milestones.
Build technical roadmaps to achieve business milestones.
Foster a positive engineering culture in line with Maxar's values.
Establish SLAs, governance processes, best practices and mitigation procedures across development lifecycle and sustainment for all API services
Ensure your team has the people needed to be successful.
Support timely delivery of engineering solutions to deliver business needs, while providing a transparent view to progress.
Actively coach and mentor team members in their careers.
Minimum Requirements :
Must be a U.S. Citizen and willing and able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Four additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree
2 years of engineering management experience, or 2 years of proven tech leadership experience with the eagerness to take on more team building opportunities
Minimum of 5 years demonstrated experience with software engineering experience. (A Masters degree may count for 2 additional years of experience)
Understands and has practiced agile software development and management
Familiar with RESTful API design for developer audience
Excellent grasp of software engineering principles, ability to guide and coach engineers
Demonstrated design skills for large scale, performant, and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
Has had exposure to multiple languages and frameworks as either an engineer or manager
Comfortable managing team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus and expertise
Micro-service oriented architecture development experience and management
A solid understanding of software development methodologies and practices (SDLC, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.)
Preferred Requirements :
Development experience with current Java frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate)
Development experience with open-source geospatial software (e.g. GDAL/OGR, GeoServer, PostGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet, OGC)
Experience with container orchestration (kubernetes, docker, helm)
Development and architecture experience with AWS and related technologies
Experience working as a software engineer in an Agile environment (TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, etc.)
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all of our U.S. job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. To accommodate all locations, we have listed the bottom to the top of the possible range, and will share the target range for a specific location during the recruiting discussion. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidates unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:
$108,000.00 - $230,000.00 annually.We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at:
Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.This position will be posted for a minimum of three business days, and will be posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.