Software Engineer, Frontend
Muon Space· Engineering - Software
Hybrid (San Jose, CA)$190k - $212kfull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Frontend-focused software engineer role on Muon Space's Mission Frontend team, building and shipping features for the Mission Command platform in a TypeScript monorepo, with emphasis on reliability, performance, accessibility, and AI-assisted coding workflows. Hybrid role requiring on-site presence in San Jose, CA three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship features across Muon Space's unified web platform, delivering reliable, high-performance, and accessible experiences for satellite operators, customers, and internal users.
- Own features end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment, with appropriate test coverage, documentation, and post-launch monitoring.
- Participate actively in code reviews and technical design discussions, contributing informed perspectives and helping raise the quality bar across the team.
- Collaborate across backend and product teams to define requirements as needed.
- Support operational health of the features you ship, responding to issues surfaced through observability tooling and iterating to improve reliability and performance.
- Grow into an autonomous, trusted contributor who consistently ships high-quality work and helps establish the unified web platform as the canonical interface for Muon's mission and operational needs.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.
- Strong problem solving mindset with a focus on the end user while considering long term outcomes.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with strongly-typed frontend languages such as TypeScript or Flow.
- A passion for semantically correct, stable, clean code.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to complex web applications.
- Experience working in codebases with automated CI/CD pipelines and static analysis enforcement.
- Proficiency in code revision management within larger, fast-moving teams.
Skills
Required:TypeScriptCode reviewsCI/CDWeb applications
Benefits
- equity
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- short & long term disability and life insurance
- three weeks paid vacation
- 12 paid holidays
- unlimited sick time
- paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Muon Space
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