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Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Icarus
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Los Angeles, CA$120k - $220kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior full-stack software engineer role at Icarus (Los Angeles, CA). Build end-to-end software powering flight operations, telemetry, analytics, and user interaction for a solar-powered Stratosphere-focused aircraft company.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own end-to-end software systems that power 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 that connect aircraft, ground stations, and users
  • Work closely with embedded, avionics, GNC, RF, and operations teams to ship tightly integrated systems
  • Support flight test, field ops, and rapid iteration using real flight data
  • Take systems from concept to production with speed and ownership

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Ability to move fast, own outcomes, and debug under pressure

Skills

Required:full-stack developmentbackend developmentfrontend developmentAPIs and distributed systemshardware/real-time systems familiarity

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity
  • Top market salary and bonuses
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Factory in El Segundo
  • Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
  • Small team, massive responsibility
  • High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
  • Dream desk setup
  • Daily lunch
  • Unlimited Celsius
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Icarus

Stratospheric birds for defense

Always-on intelligence and connectivity for Defense. Icarus builds autonomous, solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 feet for weeks at a time, above the clouds harnessing the power of the Sun, but never too close. Acting as a Cell Tower in the Sky, it’s the U-2 spy plane reborn in 2025, except each costs $100K and is built by the thousands. The future of warfare is persistent swarms in the Stratosphere.

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