Software Development Manager, Integrations - Boltline

About the role

At Stoke, we believe a thriving space economy will enable a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable future here on Earth. That is why we're building Nova, our fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicle. Designed for daily flight, Nova tackles the core challenges of space transportation by reducing cost, increasing availability, and improving reliability. By radically lowering launch costs and increasing flight cadence, we're helping create a truly scalable space industry.

Our team is mission-driven, collaborative, and empowered to take ownership of their work. If you want to work alongside some of the most dedicated and talented people on Earth, we'd love to have you join us.

About the role

A thriving economy in space is needed to make life on Earth more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable. Space technology will enable global access to information, solutions to climate change, answers to global food security, products that transform healthcare, clean energy production, and more. Today, rocket launch options are slow, expensive, and unreliable. Stoke is building the world's most efficient fully and rapidly reusable rocket designed to fly daily, radically increasing access to space and opening up the space economy to safeguard our precious home, Earth.

Boltline is our commercial software platform that not only helps Stoke safely and accurately build our reusable rocket, it also helps any advanced hardware manufacturing teams integrate, track, iterate, build, and test efficiently.

As Software Development Manager on the Integrations team, you'll lead the team building and maintaining integrations into the Boltline ecosystem. The role has three parts: people management, product ownership, and hands-on technical contribution. You'll act as the team's spokesperson, working closely with internal and external stakeholders and technical leads.

We're looking for someone who leads with servitude, drives quality through repeatable engineering practices, and operates with extreme ownership and clear communication. You must be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.

Responsibilities

• Manage the backlog and active projects for the team
• Create detailed product requirements and make priority decisions in concert with the strategy of the product team
• Manage your team's software development lifecycle
• Manage individual team members' career growth and development
• Manage headcount, interviewing and hiring for the team
• Perform code reviews
• Collaborate with Product and Design to understand priority, focus and scope
• Build, operate and maintain integrations to multiple external platforms

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development
• Strong IC experience in delivering quality SaaS systems
• Experience in driving product requirements and priority
• Experience managing and leading strongly technical software developers
• Experience with software integration practices and patterns
• Excellent verbal/written communication
• Prior on-call/incident response participation
• Proven ownership of features from design through production

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern web development frameworks (ReactJS)
• Experience with building reliable APIs
• Experience with RDBMS
• Familiarity with Next.js or similar meta-frameworks
• DevOps basics (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, AWS)
• Experience with Apollo (Client/Server), Hasura or similar
• Hands-on CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
• Interest in aerospace, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing workflows

Benefits

• Equity - We know that our employees are the reason we succeed. To give everyone a stake in our future, we are pleased to offer equity in the form of stock options to all regular, full-time employees.
• Comprehensive benefits program including subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• 4 weeks' Paid Time Off
• Holidays - 10 days (including an end-of-year closure)
• Paid Family/Parental Leave
• On-site gym or monthly wellness stipend (depending on location)
• Dog friendly offices!

Compensation

Target Levels

• Level 4 Range: $192,885 - $289,380
• Level 5 Range: $231,525 - $347,235

Our job posts are intentionally written to attract a wide variety of experience levels, and we make decisions about the right fit on a per-candidate basis.

Your actual level and base salary will be decided based on your specific experience and skill level.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S. (i.e., current Green Card holder), or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).