Senior Software Engineer

About this role

About Stellar

Stellar brings together professionals and experts from a range of exciting domains and technologies: telecommunications (cellular 4G/5G terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, Wi-Fi and satellites), mobility (trains, aircraft, drones and road vehicles), and software for efficient data transmission, orchestration, network management, data collection, processing and analysis, including growing AI/ML capabilities.

Our products and solutions - the STEER Software Suite, M2M/IoT solutions and the all-in-one GLOBBLE offering - are transforming how people and vehicles experience connectivity while on the move by enabling seamless, ubiquitous and reliable broadband services. More information is available at https://www.stellar.tc.

Stellar is an ideal workplace for professionals who are eager to learn, challenge conventional approaches, explore practical innovations and take meaningful ownership in a supportive, collaborative, results-driven, international and professional environment.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Software Development, the Senior Software Engineer develops and maintains STEER Management, Stellar's device and network management platform built on top of OpenWisp, and its Django/Python backend.

STEER Management is made up of several custom extensions of OpenWisp modules, covering device configuration, users, monitoring, notifications and firmware upgrades, which Stellar maintains and keeps aligned with each upstream OpenWisp release. The role develops and maintains these modules across the device, web interface and management platform layers, and is primarily backend work with a smaller frontend component.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. We are looking for engineers who value deep technical ownership, and who genuinely enjoy working within an open-source ecosystem and community. Stellar's engineering teams are also increasingly relying on AI-assisted development tools as part of their workflow, and ...