Maxar is seeking a talented and security-oriented Software Engineer with API and front-end development experience to join our Usage, Billing, and Metrics team within Maxar Geospatial Platform Core.
Job Description
You will be part of the team responsible for developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining highly available and highly performant APIs for tracking usage within the Maxar Geospatial Platform, and building UIs for metrics and analytics of said usage. This engineer will contribute to a unified platform powering applications used by all of Maxar’s customers (Commercial, USG, and International).
In this role, you will have the freedom to design and engineer solutions to drive innovative, modern approaches to meet our user needs and customer requirements. A successful candidate will be a passionate developer that embraces modern software development and insists others do as well. You will introduce automation and evangelize new tools and processes within a collaborative team environment. You will assist our Usage team with scaling, monitoring, and optimizing our APIs. You will build solutions, resolve defects, conduct code reviews, and communicate statuses in daily stand-ups within an agile workflow. This position participates in an on-call rotation to ensure our APIs are available, accessible, and performant.
This position is located in Westminster, CO or can be performed remotely. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
Life with Us
Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise, geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost effectiveness.
Your Project: Deliver Maxar APIs with high availability, performance, and scale. Build interactive UIs that allow our analysts and Product team to understand our users, as well as UIs that monitor the health of Maxar Geospatial Platform Core services. You will work with cross-functional engineering, dev/ops, QA, security, and Product teams to support delivery of industry leading geospatial data and analytics to our customers.
Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members 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-today
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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
For all other states, 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.
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: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
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.
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
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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.
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