Senior Software Engineer

Spire Maritime business unit has the largest proprietary satellite constellation and the highest volume of vessel position updates. We are detecting over 600K vessels and 250K active vessels per day. We offer the most complete picture of AIS data on the market with data dating back to 2010.  

Scope of the role:  

• Own the design, implementation, testing, and operation of the code that analyzes, integrates, and serves Spire’s real-time and historical maritime data  

• Maintain stateful data pipeline processing more than 600 million messages every day, storing the data, and making meaningful insights in real-time based on it. 

• Industrialize the data processing and analytical pipelines that process the satellite and third-party terrestrial data that our customers use. 

• Improve and scale Spire Maritime API products to higher throughput, deeper insights, and more customers, while making them more secure and reliable  

• Help our customers to make better‑informed decisions, even in highly congested traffic areas, with enhanced vessel detection. 
• Join a collaborative, fast-moving, high-functioning team that values on-time delivery and a wide variety of expertise: backend services, distributed and streaming data analysis, CI/CD, infrastructure, operations, etc. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Highly collaborative team player who values shared code ownership, testing, documentation, code reviews, and supporting customers, both internal and external. 

• Clear and effective communication is crucial for collaborating with team members, understanding requirements, and conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 

• Ability to prioritize tasks, set realistic estimations, and manage their time effectively. 

• 4+ years of working experience in software engineering. 

• Computer science degree or equivalent work experience. 

• Experience with one or more programming languages out of: Go, Java, and Python. 

• Experience owning full-lifecycle software development: requirement gathering, development, testing, delivery, monitoring, and incident response 

• Experience with distributed systems and high-throughput data analysis, e.g., Kafka, Hadoop, and Flink. 

• Hands-on DevOps experience. Familiarity with services and tools like AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Concourse, Argo CD, etc.  

Preferred Qualifications / Experience:  

• Preference for straightforward, resilient solutions. 

• Proficiency in written communication to convey ideas effectively. 

• Exposure and familiarity with AI/ ML Models and systems. 

• Highly detail-oriented and completeness-driven; won’t stop until it’s done properly. 

• Drive to keep your skills and knowledge of software development and delivery up to date, and incorporate those learnings into your day-to-day work. 

• Ability to see the big picture, understand where the world is heading, and instinctively know the right way to do things. 

• Ability to work across multiple teams with a variety of experience and expertise to produce solutions that are mutually agreeable resolutions to technical issues. 

• Product mentality: figure out how to maximize value and deliver that to the customer. 

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in office.

Access to US export controlled software and/or technology may be required.   #LI-MI1