Software Engineer - Applications

About this role

## Location

New York City

## Employment Type

Full time

## Location Type

Hybrid

## Department

Engineering

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.

## About This Role

Software Engineers on our Applications teams help build the product experience that customers use every day on Astro — from the web console and CLI to the APIs, workflows, and features that make Airflow easier to use, monitor, and manage. The team owns the problems that make Astro a great product: usability, performance, reliability, and the day-to-day feature work that turns customer needs into shipped software across our web application, backend services, and APIs.

We're looking for a Software Engineer to help build and ship that product — on our core web application, our backend services, or both; your specific team will be determined later in the interview process based on need and fit. You'll get hands-on experience with full-stack development, API design, and production feature delivery from day one — with the guidance of senior engineers as you build toward independent ownership. If you're early in your career and want to learn by shipping real, production-grade software that customers use directly, this is the team for you. This posting covers both Software Engineer I and Software Engineer II — the level you're hired at depends on experience and demonstrated scope.

## What You'll Do

• Write, test, and maintain application code — from frontend components (React/TypeScript) to backend services and APIs (Golang and/or TypeSc...