Software Engineer – GCS Team

Flytrex runs drone food delivery at scale in US cities. The GCS (Ground Control Station) team builds the brain of the operation: the system that takes an order, plans a flight, coordinates airspace, and safely delivers a package to a backyard, thousands of times a week. We're scaling from a handful of sites to a national network, and the systems need to scale with us.

About the role

• Build and own features end-to-end across a distributed, event-driven backend: design, code, tests, rollout, and production follow-up.
• Work on real problems: mission state machines, route planning, airspace deconfliction, fleet operations, and the tooling our operators use every day.
• Dig into production. When something breaks mid-flight, you'll be part of the team that finds out why and makes sure it never happens again.
• Ship fast, with a strong safety bar. We move quickly, and we don't cut corners on things that fly.

Why here

Ownership without bureaucracy. A small, strong team with a mission you can point at in the sky. If you want to shape how autonomous delivery gets built, rather than maintain someone else's decisions, this is the role.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on backend experience, or a strong graduate with serious side projects.
• Solid CS fundamentals. You can reason about concurrency, state, and failure modes, not just APIs.
• You write tests because you want to know your code works, not because someone told you to.
• Curious, direct, and comfortable with ambiguity. You ask questions, push back when something doesn't make sense, and take ownership without waiting to be assigned.
• Bonus: background in robotics, aviation, simulation, or anything that moves in the physical world.