Frontend Software Engineer
Help us bring spacecraft development into the modern age with powerful software that help teams build the future of space exploration. 🚀
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About Us
We’re building the modern operating system for spacecraft development that runs right in the browser. Our mission is to provide the teams building humanity's future in space with the tools they deserve.
Founded by engineers from NASA, Rocket Lab, and the military, we're transforming how space missions are designed, managed, and launched. Our platform replaces fragmented legacy tools with an integrated solution for everything from system design to compliance and insurance, enabling space engineers to deliver quickly without sacrificing on assurance.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a talented and self-driven Frontend Software Engineer to join our Auckland team. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape our product and grow with us as we scale. You'll have a significant impact in building and improving our TypeScript/NextJS application while working in an exciting environment with ambitious goals.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain our web application using primarily TypeScript, NextJS, and Supabase
- Implement new features and improve existing ones by owning outcomes
- Develop and maintain component documentation and examples using Storybook
- Develop complex user interfaces such as custom diagramming tools
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions
- Collaborate with the founding team to refine product direction
- Stay current with emerging technologies and suggest implementations that could benefit our platform
- Help establish best practices and coding standards
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development
- Extensive experience with React and preferably NextJS
- Ability to mock up basic interfaces at pace using highly practical methods
- Quick learner willing to adapt to new technologies and methodologies
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment with changing priorities
- Proactive problem solver with the ability to advocate for what’s necessary to push the team forward
Ideal Qualities
- Experience with React Flow
- Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity and risk
- Understanding that workloads may vary depending on the environment
- Excitement about aerospace and fintech
- Interest in growing beyond purely technical responsibilities as the company scales
- Previous startup experience (a plus, but not required)
- Have built stuff that you’re proud of showing off
Why Join Us?
- Work alongside space industry veterans using cutting-edge technology
- Directly help the most exciting companies realise their aspirational initiatives
- Be part of a fast-moving team solving complex challenges
- Build software that space engineers actually love using
- Significant equity opportunity – grow with us and share in our success
- Attractive base salary
- Flexible work environment with focus on results
If you're passionate about space, and want to accelerate humanity's progress beyond Earth with clever software solutions, we want you on our mission.
- Locations
- Auckland, Los Angeles
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Charter Space
Charter powers space insurance, and enables development of spacecraft from cradle to grave by supporting systems engineering and program management.
Frontend Software Engineer
Help us bring spacecraft development into the modern age with powerful software that help teams build the future of space exploration. 🚀
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