PT Senior Web Developer

The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster Colorado, this incredible team is looking for a PT Senior Web Developer to lead the full stack rebuild and enhancement for our Flight Dynamics Services (FDS) tool.  FDS is currently flying the CAPSTONE satellite at the Moon and will be the primary planning tool used for many future deep space missions.  This job is offered on a contract basis varying between half-time and full-time for 6+ months with possible follow on work.

Advanced Space is a rapidly growing, privately held business that incorporates our core values in all that we do. Advanced Space exists to support the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space and operates with four core values: We are customer obsessed and mission focused; when we see it, we solve it; we are one team, motivated by our vision; and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity.

The end product user experience involves:

• Configuration and upload of parameters and files/filesets to initialize the tool on a case-by-case basis.
• Command iterative execution of cloud-based back-end scripts for spacecraft orbit determination and maneuver design.
• Allow end-users to distribute and retrieve products over external interfaces such as SFTP.
• Allow end-users to maintain their data set in an organized database/datastore.
• Generate interactive plots on user-specified data.
• Allow end-users to select data sets from plots for iterative task execution.
• The front-end will allow for varied sets of user permissions via secure login.  There may be need for a "basic" user-friendly experience for rudimentary jobs and a more full-featured experience for advanced use cases.

Essential Duties:

• Work with end-users to determine and refine use-cases and the required/desired user experience.
• Work with software engineers with existing product knowledge to design and develop a solution that fits within the proposed front-end and back-end architecture.
• Estimate schedule and overall level of effort for the development, potentially involving analysis of tradeoffs within the design space as well as language and tool set choices.
• Architect, design, and develop the user-facing web interface and related communication infrastructure with the server side implementation.
• Be a leading contributor to back end design and implementation as required to support full functionality and flexibility.
• Help define database schemas and software database interfaces suitable to the data sets supported by FDS.
• Create sufficient documentation describing the tool, theory, environment, design, and implementation of all facets of the interface and infrastructure.
• Develop and implement a test strategy/plan for the web interface.
• Support development and build-up of the server side by allowing prototype based front-end use for integration and test of the entire system.

Required Skills:

• At least 10 years web development experience.
• Knowledge of web development languages/toolsets such as HTML, React, JavaScript, NodeJS.
• Good communication skills with engineers in varied disciplines.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to document work effectively.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of AWS EC2.
• Knowledge of MongoDB.
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes / related containerization and deployment tools.
• Basic working knowledge of Python.

Compensation:

• $60-$70 per hour
• Part-time role; 6 month contract

Education and Experience:

• At least 10 years proven experience building web pages/sites.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Person
• security Clearance desired but not required.  Applicants must be a US Citizen for security clearance