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Company
Founded in 2020 Ribbit
builds and operates self-flying airplanes to resupply hard-to-reach areas. Weve developed an autonomous technology stack that performs gate-to-gate operations including taxi takeoffs landings and in-flight maneuvers. Weve demonstrated over 230 hours of autonomous flight on two different aircraft and we are actively maturing our stack while testing with clients. You can check out videos of our flights here.
Our immediate goal is to deliver cargo across northern Canada where everything from groceries to military equipment must be flown 2023 we signed our first contract with the Government of Canada and performed Canadas first hands-free gate-to-gate flight between two airports that same year. Weve also signed several northern wholesalers worth $42M per year in air freight services and have active contracts with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and Department of National Defence (DND). In the future our technology will be used to connect rural remote and coastal regions around the world expanding eventually to passenger travel at large.
The Ribbit Team has years of experience with piloting commercial drone operations and autonomous mobile roboticswere concentrating the worlds best software robotics and aeronautical expertise to pursue our mission of making air transportation accessible to everyone. If youre up for the challenge we want to hear from you.
Position Overview
As a Senior/Staff Full-Stack Engineer you will collaborate with peers to:
- Lead GUI development including defining architecture and technical roadmaps leading design reviews mentoring engineers and elevating code quality and standards
- Design build and iterate on the development and testing of a secure real-time web GUI for monitoring and commanding fleets of autonomous aircraft operating in Canada and worldwide; features may include live telemetry geospatial maps health/status alerts video streams mission planning and safeguarded command workflows
- Partner with autonomy and flight-test teams to integrate telemetry video and command/control APIs and schemas into the GUI
- Engage with field teams to support flight trials run pilot projects collect feedback and translate operational needs into product improvements
- Drive threat modelling and secure-by-default patterns across the stack and networking protocols
Your key objectives will include:
- Developing and scaling backend services for telemetry ingestion event processing and command routing using resilient protocols (e.g. WebSockets gRPC MQTT).
- Implementing robust safety and security controls (e.g. RBAC multi-tenancy SSO/MFA rate-limits confirmations E2E encryption)
- Extending and optimizing airground networking across cellular satcom and RF (e.g. QoS congestion control adaptive bitrate FEC store-and-forward path failover)
- Ensuring correctness and reliability under degraded links (e.g. ordering idempotency retries deduplication and replay protection)
- Shipping production-grade infrastructure with CI/CD
- Creating a rigorous test strategy (e.g. unit/integration/E2E load/stress fuzzing security testing plus SITL/HIL for autonomy interfaces)
Other Details:
- No. of Positions: 1
- Duration: Permanent Full-Time starting October 2025
- Base Compensation: 146K to 170K
- This is a remote role in Canada with occasional on-site presence during major field tests
- Competitive and comprehensive compensation (e.g. 3 weeks of vacation upon joining credits for personal development comprehensive health and wellness plans see our Careers page for more info)
- You must be eligible to hold a Government of Canada security clearance at the Reliability or Secret level and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program
Qualifications
As the ideal candidate you have strong technical skills and meet the following requirements:
- Hold a university degree in a relevant area of engineering or computer science
- Experience developing front-end and back-end software in a commercial context with tight performance and networking constraints using modern frontend (React and TypeScript preferred) and backend (Python Go and/or Rust preferred)
- Experience with Cloud (e.g. EKS ECS IAM CloudFront Route 53 in AWS or equivalent in GCP/Azure) and DevOps (e.g. Docker or Kubernetes CI/CD)
- Experience with real-time data and control (e.g. WebSockets gRPC or WebRTC)
- Experience with software development practices and supporting tools (e.g. JIRA Agile)
- Demonstrated security-first mindset (e.g. OAuth2/OIDC/SSO TLS/mTLS/PKI secrets management audit logging and secure coding)
- Demonstrated ability to gather design requirements lead design reviews mentor peers and write clear and concise documentation
Preferred and bonus qualifications include:
- Experience with real-time GUIs intended for data-intensive applications and/or edge deployments such as geospatial/GIS tools or drone ground control stations
- Experience developing and/or operationally testing AVs drones or other similar systems in a professional setting (e.g. startup company and/or research group)
- Experience networking across diverse communications links (cellular satcom RF WiFi/5G)
- Experience with unit/integration/E2E contract tests load/stress fuzzing and security testing
- Experience with security and compliance standards (e.g. SOC 2/ISO 27001)
You also possess the soft skills to work in a high-stakes fast-paced tight-knit company such as:
- Communication skills
- Openness to give and receive feedback
- Time management and adaptability
- Self-awareness including knowing ones strengths and weaknesses
- Taking initiative to seek define and execute tasks with minimal guidance
Required Experience:
Senior IC