Zone 5 Technologies · 2 weeks ago
Software Engineering Manager – Applications
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $220K/yr
7+ years expZone 5 Technologies is redefining unmanned aircraft systems through innovative solutions. They are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team in developing and maintaining software systems for UAVs, ensuring compliance with safety and performance standards.
AerospaceManufacturingMechanical Engineering
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Management: Build, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary team of software engineers responsible for developing mission-critical desktop and web applications supporting UAV operations, flight planning, fleet management, and data visualization
Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define and oversee application architecture across desktop, web, cloud, and data platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, usability, and secure integration with UAV systems and backend services
Product Delivery & Planning: Plan and prioritize development roadmaps, allocate engineering resources, establish delivery timelines, and ensure execution of mission-critical applications such as ground control stations (GCS), operator interfaces, mission-planning tools, and post-processing applications
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with embedded/firmware teams, systems engineering, product management, and flight sciences to ensure seamless integration between user-facing software, UAV platforms, and backend systems
Quality, Verification & User Experience: Champion quality engineering practices including automated testing, UI/UX standards, code reviews, performance benchmarking, and usability testing to produce reliable, safety-critical operator interfaces
Security & Compliance: Ensure application security, data integrity, and adherence to aviation and cybersecurity requirements, including appropriate handling of flight data, telemetry, mission plans, user roles, and secure communications
Process & Workflow Improvement: Working with DevOps, drive continuous improvement initiatives for CI/CD workflows, deployment processes, code quality, user feedback loops, and documentation standards
Innovation & Technology Adoption: Evaluate emerging UI frameworks, cloud platforms, telemetry visualization technologies, and mission-management tools to advance application capabilities and operator experience
Documentation Oversight: Ensure production of high-quality product documentation, user guides, API documentation, and support materials
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
Minimum of 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a management or technical leadership role
Proven experience leading full-stack, desktop, or web application teams, ideally in mission-critical, real-time, or data-intensive within an Aerospace and Defense environment
Expertise with frameworks and technologies used in modern desktop and web application development (e.g., Electron, Qt, .NET, WPF, React, Angular, Vue, Node.js, etc.)
Strong understanding of service-oriented architectures, cloud services, distributed systems, APIs, and data storage solutions
Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD workflows (Git, GitHub/GitLab, Docker, pipelines, automated test frameworks)
Demonstrated ability to manage user-facing platform development with a focus on performance, usability, reliability, and operator workflow
Strong communication, leadership, stakeholder alignment, and team-building skills
Preferred
Experience developing operator interfaces for robotics, UAVs, industrial automation, aerospace, or real-time control systems
Familiarity with mapping, geospatial, telemetry streaming, or mission-planning frameworks (GIS, WebGL, Cesium, OpenLayers, Leaflet, etc.)
Benefits
Competitive total compensation package
Comprehensive benefit package options include medical, dental, vision, life, and more.
401k with company-match
4 weeks of paid time off each year
12 annual company holidays
Company
Zone 5 Technologies
Zone 5 Technologies is an aviation component manufacturing company that develops and tests unmanned aircraft systems.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2025-12-17Acquired
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