Associate Manager, Software Engineering (Aerospace)

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; on-site. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, conditional residents, asylees, refugees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Employment: Full-time

Company

hirify.global develops communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through feedback, performance management, career planning, and training.
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for software design, development, integration, testing, and sustainment.
• Partner with systems, hardware, quality, manufacturing, integration and test, mission operations, program management, and product leadership.
• Support technical planning, resource allocation, risk management, workload prioritization, and program execution.
• Participate in customer meetings, technical reviews, design reviews, and program milestone activities.
• Improve engineering tools, processes, documentation, software practices, quality, and process maturity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in software, computer, electrical, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 4–7 years of relevant software engineering experience, including at least 1 year of leadership experience.
• Experience leading software development teams in aerospace, defense, or another highly regulated industry.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles, SDLC, software architecture, integration, IV&V, configuration management, and secure software development.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD, issue tracking, requirements management, and version control tools.
• Proficiency in one or more of C, C++, Rust, or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work in a dynamic cross-functional environment.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Work with mission-critical aerospace and airborne systems.