Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack

About Us

Moonware is building the future of airside operations. We’re creating an integrated ecosystem of AI software and smart vehicles that connect ground crew, vehicles, and aircraft to efficiently service flights. With our advanced technologies, we are transforming aviation ground operations across the passenger, cargo, defense, and advanced air mobility sectors.

Moonware was founded on the belief that multimodal air transportation will become the prime mover of people and goods in the 21st century. To support this shift, airports and the hubs connecting these transport modes must transform to meet the demands of modern air travel. While aircraft technology continues to advance rapidly, the infrastructure and ground operations needed to enable these next-generation aerial ecosystems remain largely outdated. Moonware is closing this gap by creating the ecosystem for automated airfields to support the next era of travel.

Our flagship product, HALO, is the world’s first Ground Traffic Control platform powered by AI. The platform is designed to streamline aircraft turnaround management, seamlessly coordinating ramp crew and ground support equipment to service flights on time. It drives significant operational improvements for teams, resulting in faster turnarounds, reduced block times, fewer delays, increased flight throughput, and maximized asset utilization. The modernization HALO brings to ground operations is what we see as building the bridge to airfield autonomy.

We are a team of builders from top Silicon Valley tech companies, combining our expertise in aerospace and software to drive innovation in an industry often slow to evolve. As we push forward, the Moonware ecosystem will continue to expand, unlocking new possibilities and shaping the future of travel.

About the role

Moonware is seeking a full-stack minded Senior Software Engineer to contribute and own application development for HALO, our next-generation Ground Traffic Control platform.

This is a true end-to-end role: you’ll work directly with ground crews and airport stakeholders to understand operational needs, and design and build distributed systems that power mission-critical decisions on the tarmac. From backend services to internal tools and user-facing applications, you’ll own and deliver features across the stack. You’ll collaborate closely with hardware partners, frontline users, and engineering peers to ship reliable, high-performance software that drives efficiency in ground operations. 

Your responsibilities include:

• End-to-end product development: design, build, test & maintain critical features

• Work across the stack: write robust services, build internal tools, expose well-designed APIs, and ship reliable features to customers

• Work with real-time operational data to deliver accuracy, usability, and performance in the apps you build

• Collaborate with field users and vendors to understand edge cases, device quirks, and operational needs, then reflect those insights in technical design

• Build scalable systems that ensure reliability and performance under extreme load

• Ensure data integrity through automated testing, monitoring, and observability across the pipeline

• Contribute to ongoing improvements in our data model, user flows, and system observability

• Help establish best practices in frontend architecture, backend infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows

• Ensure scalability, security, and resilience across the stack

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack, software or data engineer, preferably in a real-time or operational environment

• Deep familiarity with operating data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Airflow, Debezium, etc) and cloud-native infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP, Terraform)

• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, schema design, and performance tuning

• Proficient in one or more backend languages (Go, Java, or similar), and able to write clean, maintainable code

• Front-end experience in React, Angular, or similar JavaScript framework

• Experience exposing and consuming REST and/or gRPC APIs

• A product mindset: you enjoy talking to users and vendors to deeply understand problems before solving them

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

• Comfortable working in startup environments with high ownership and autonomy

This role might be for you if:

• Aviation, autonomy, and mobility excite you

• You like to rapidly iterate, learn on the fly, and wear many “hats”

• You thrive in real-world, field-connected systems, not just clean data warehouse problems

• Love leading technical teams to develop solutions for customers

Nice to haves:

• Experience with real-time, event-driven systems (MQTT, WebSockets, etc)

• Background in aviation, mobility, IoT, or logistics

• Previous experience at an early-stage startup

• Experience with sensor data, GPS, or fleet telemetry