Senior Software Engineering Manager, Spire Global
$130.5-171k
+ Participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
3+ days a week in office (Boulder, CO)
Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
Job no longer available
Provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130.5-171k
+ Participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
3+ days a week in office (Boulder, CO)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide customers with comprehensive data and analytics that protect our environment and our communities, transform global logistics, contribute to economic stability, and put moonshot goals within reach.
Role
Who you are
- Computer science or Mathematics degree or equivalent work experience, and experience working as a software engineer
- Intrinsic interest in developing people and helping them deliver at their full potential
- Ability to analyse data by yourself, using Python, SQL and other languages in order to measure the progress and success of the work your team delivers
- Demonstrated expertise in designing and driving end-to-end technical solutions spanning new product development and legacy modernization
- Experience leading one or multiple software teams
- Excellent communications skills
- Alignment with our core values: global, reliable, unbounded, faster, relentless, collaborative
- Desire to operate autonomously
- Desire to achieve mastery in your domain
- Comfortable with iterating and re-evaluating projects and plans as needs evolve
- Experience delivering projects on time and of quality, using agile principles
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within the Constellation Operations group in Spire, you will be responsible for working with other leaders in the organization to establish the long-term vision and planning for software projects with time horizons of a year or more
- You will be the Team Lead of our Scheduling Team, working closely with your Tech Lead to ensure overall delivery and operational excellency of the products your team owns
- You are going to be the voice of your products, engaging in frequent stakeholder meetings
- . You also have personnel responsibilities for career development and growth for your team, mentoring junior engineers and working with senior engineers to develop their skills and career progression
- You are keen to step in as an IC when needed and take ownership in driving operational excellency forwards
- Your team manages some of Spire’s most critical ground stack software, responsible for the scheduling of contacts, payloads and manoeuvres in our constellation, therefore, you should have a strong technical and mathematical background to lead your team
- You will be involved in roadmap planning and prioritization and responsible for its delivery
- You are going to find a good balance between mission delivery commitments, product and tech improvements in the work that your team does
- You will drive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations
- You will interface with other ICs, engineering managers, technical program managers, system engineers and others
- You’ll work alongside your team and tech lead to develop elegant technical solutions to customer needs,
- You will make sure the technical vision of the team is aligned with business priorities and implemented on time and to a high standard. This includes supporting the bottom-up ideation, creation, and curation of technical proposals that is core to Spire’s culture
- Lastly, but most importantly,
- You will interface with the satellite operations, ground stations, communications, and satellite design teams to translate user needs into system requirements and have the experience to run the resultant projects independently
- You’ll be responsible for making sure that the people on your team experience personal growth and amazing achievements
- Drive the development and execution of the roadmap across application development, testing, deployment, and operations
Our take
There’s been an increasing focus on big data in recent years, and Spire Global aims to lead the field in the biggest data of all - Earth Intelligence - with its suite of satellites collecting data from beneath the Earth’s surface to the edge of the atmosphere.
It identifies three main areas of use for its data - Aviation, Maritime, and Weather. Its capabilities in these fields include providing over 660M position reports each day for the aviation industry, building intelligent routing and tracking systems for maritime shipping, and supplying in-depth weather forecasting and climate impact analysis.
Beyond this, Spire Global's satellite system has countless other applications, such as real-time observation in active conflicts, and wildfire tracking. Operating in a rapidly developing market for space-based data, Spire continues to expand its satellite network and capaibilities as demand for global monitoring and environmental intelligence grows.
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Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.7m
GRANT
Sep 2019
$19.8m
GRANT
Total funding: $202.8m
Company benefits
- Name your own satellite: Be remembered throughout time by choosing a name for a LEMUR satellite.
- Family Leave: Family is important. Our parental and family leave is designed to let you make the most of those precious moments.
- Learning & development: Spire more than encourages and supports ongoing personal improvement and a growth mindset, we welcome it!
- Launch Attendance: One of the perks from launching satellites into space is that Spire often has VIP access to view the launch.
- Generous time off policy: Take the time you need. Our flexible time-off policy promotes a positive work-life balance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Our EAP makes sure you have access to support and counseling sessions whenever you need it.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP): Our ESPP provides eligible employees with an opportunity to purchase Spire shares through accumulated contributions.
- Fitness Reimbursement: Spire encourages fitness activity to promote employee well-being with reimbursed gym membership expenses.
- Employee Referral Program: Spire is always looking for outstanding people to join our team, and you can help and be awarded a referral bonus.
- Healthy snacks & beverages: To help our employees to be as productive as possible, we provide healthy snacks and beverages in each of our offices.
Company HQ
Tysons, VA
Leadership
Theresa Condor
(CEO)Theresa has been with Spire since 2013, initially joining as a GM of Space service and Earth Intelligence, before becoming COO in 2021 and CEO in 2025.
Alison Engel
(CFO)Prior to joining Spire Global in 2025, Alison spent over 2 years at LeaseAccelerator as the CFO. She also spent over 5 years at Gannet as a VP of Finance and Senior VP/CFO & Treasurer.
Celia Pelaz
(COO)Prior to joining Spire Global in 2025, Celia spent nearly 8 years at HENSOLDT in various roles, including CSO and COO.
Johann Gabriel Oehme
(CTO)Johann joined Spire Global in 2025 as Chief Transformation Officer, moving into the role of Chief Technology Officer later in the same year. Previously, he spent 4 years at Aerotech Peissenberg as a Managing Director & CCO. He also spent 22 years at Airbus, holding various roles including VP of A350 Customer & Business Development and VP Head of Programme Procurement.
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