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:

Around 1–3 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.