Full Stack Software Developer

Full Stack Software Developer

Reports to: Mission Control Team Lead

Location: Inovor’s Headquarters, Lot Fourteen, Adelaide.

Hours of work: Full time, 38 hours per week (negotiable)

Remuneration: Negotiable based on experience

Citizenship: Australian citizens only

Company Profile

We are a space and defence company located in Australia’s first innovation neighbourhood at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide. We are a resident amongst many other innovative and high-tech companies and are next door to the University precinct and the beautiful Botanical Gardens.

With around 50 employees, we develop satellite technologies and are building several spacecraft for civilian and defence customers. We have developed a family of small satellite platforms and provide a complete turnkey satellite mission solution from mission design to spacecraft design, manufacture, integration, test, delivery, and operations. We also provide services to Defence in several key areas, including electronic warfare, simulation and modelling and space surveillance.

Our Vision

Our vision is to create exciting technology to improve and protect our way of life on earth through small satellite mission applications and advanced capabilities in defence.

Important to Know

• We are very passionate about space!
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a company that promotes a diverse and safe workplace environment. We encourage women, people from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent and ex-defence personnel to apply. Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace we support applications with a strong emphasis on empowering women in STEM to join our innovative team.

What’s on offer:

• We value work/life balance and provide a flexible working environment to recruit and retain the best people.
• Employees have the opportunity to engage with state-of-the-art technology, contributing to the development of advanced satellite systems and defence solutions.
• Our employees have access to a curated training program from accredited national and global training organisations.
• We invest in the continuous learning and professional development of our team. There are ample opportunities for attending workshops, training sessions, and conferences in various departments of space.
• We provide complimentary refreshments all throughout the day to keep our people healthy and focussed.

Position Broad Purpose

This position is an exciting opportunity for a Full Stack Software Developer to join our growing mission control software team at Lot Fourteen. Through the role, the developer will be working intimately with the spacecraft we build and the systems developed to operate them in orbit. The agile team you’ll join is made up of passionate and driven developers who are excited about building technology to operate spacecraft at the cutting edge of the space industry. As this is a growing team, there is opportunity to increase the role/responsibility for the right candidate. If you are interested in collaborating and working with some of Australia’s brightest space professionals, here’s your opportunity!

You will be responsible for:

• Developing front-end and back-end software.
• Implementing dev-ops processes for cloud-based web applications.
• Reviewing software developed by other software developers.
• Continual evaluation and improvement of processes within the software team.
• Providing technical leadership across software architecture and web technologies.
• Monitoring operations systems and troubleshooting problems when they arise.
• Working with engineers within the company to understand operator and system requirements.

Reporting Relationships and Key Stakeholders

This position reports to the Mission Control Team Lead.

The position will work closely with:

• Our multi-disciplinary technical team.
• Our project management team.

Professional Competencies and Attributes

Diversity and Inclusion

• An understanding and commitment to embracing the diversity of experiences and perspectives of all so that we feel welcome, integrated and included in our workplace.

Interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated ability to work alongside internal teams to deliver outcomes that meet our customers’ needs.
• Emotional intelligence that supports working in a small and agile company with other highly focussed, intelligent people.

Analytical thinking

• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills.

Criteria – Essential

We are seeking talented and motivated people who:

• Have an interest and passion for space, high attention to detail, and a willingness to learn.
• Possess experience and skills in software development and management of cloud-based web applications.
• Are excited about the opportunity to work in a small agile team with exposure to a large range of technologies.
• Are focused on developing high quality products to meet end-user needs.

Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet defence security clearance requirements.

Criteria – Desirable

• Knowledge in scaling web applications and cloud infrastructure.
• Five years experience in web development.
• Previous experience in:
  • Web application architecture
  • Web development technologies (Typescript, Vue.js, Postgres, No SQL Databases, AWS, Containerisation, Infrastructure as Code)
  • CI/CD

Applying for this position:

Please forward your resume with a maximum one-page cover letter addressing the essential criteria and relevant skills and experience.

Please include your salary expectation in the application.

Applications must be submitted via Seek.

Inovor Technologies is a leader in space technology, providing specialist development services and advanced satellite mission solutions to a range of clients and industries including defence and commercial customers.