Senior Python Engineer

Job description

Meet Slingshot At Slingshot Aerospace, we're on a mission to make space safer and more secure for everyone. Our work directly impacts global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and the critical infrastructure that connects our world. We're a team of builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers who believe that the next generation of space operations will be powered by better data and smarter software. We move fast, we're not afraid to fail, and we believe the best ideas can come from anywhere—whether you're in engineering, sales, product, or operations. If you want to work on something that truly matters, with people who care deeply about the impact we're making and help shape the future of an industry that's just getting started, you're in the right place. What You’ll Be Launching: Seeking a Senior Python Engineer to design and deliver secure, scalable, high performance data processing and intelligent application platforms. This on site role (Washington DC–Baltimore area) requires deep expertise in Python, FastAPI, distributed event-driven systems, MongoDB, and in memory datastores such as Redis. The engineer will contribute to system design, build production-ready service...