# Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Company Overview Imagine a piloted air taxi that takes off vertically, then quietly carries you and your fellow passengers over the congested city streets below, enabling you to spend more time with the people and places that matter most. At Joby, we've been working to make that dream a reality since 2009 and we're now in the final stages of certifying our aircraft with the FAA. With plans to launch our aircraft in the US and Dubai, we're now scaling manufacturing and preparing for the launch of our commercial service. Overview We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep backend systems expertise to help drive the next generation of infrastructure that powers Joby's manufacturing and operations. In this role, you'll design and build scalable, reliable Python services that connect business logic, production data, and hardware systems across a globally distributed organization. You'll partner with product, operations, manufacturing, and hardware teams to identify high-impact technical opportunities, architect solutions that handle real manufacturing complexity, and establish the patterns that let Factory Systems ship production-grade capabilities at scale. This is a rare o

- **Id**: 1133765
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/joby-aviation-senior-software-engineer-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Carlos, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T05:51:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T22:16:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4177
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military, Transportation & Logistics, Air Transport

## Company

- **Id**: 176372
- **Name**: Joby Aviation
- **Domain**: jobyaviation.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/joby-aviation>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

## Salary

- **Min**: 141000
- **Max**: 217700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 217700

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-23T05:51:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.664
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 217700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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