Software Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for a middle software engineer to join a small team building a product management ecosystem in the defense sector. You’ll work on internal tooling, deployment workflows, and backend services, with room to grow into ownership of your own areas.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal deployment and product management tooling
• Build backend services and APIs in Python
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• Work with Docker-based build and deployment workflows
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain technical quality
• Write technical documentation for the features you build

Requirements

• 2+ years of commercial Python experience: async, threads, concurrent programming
• Experience with Python web frameworks (FastAPI preferred)
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerization
• Linux: systemd, journald, containers, confident CLI usage
• Networking fundamentals: HTTP(S), SSH, WebSocket
• Understanding of client-server architecture and API design
• Databases and ACID fundamentals
• English for technical communication (reading docs, written async communication)

Nice to have

• Cloud or on-premise infrastructure experience
• Bare-metal / Raspberry Pi / embedded Linux (firmware flashing, secure boot)
• Information security fundamentals
• Python deployment optimization
• Experience with ArduPilot or other autopilot stacks

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Reservation from mobilization
• Office in Kyiv with shelter access, generator and Starlink
• Possibility of hybrid work format
• Impact on improving our country’s defense capabilities
• 21 days of vacation + public holidays, sick leaves