Software Engineer - Internal Platforms & Tooling

About The ePlane Company

The ePlane Company is at the forefront of India's urban air mobility revolution. Incubated at IIT Madras, we are a deep-tech startup dedicated to designing and building the world's most compact electric flying taxi. Our mission is to make door-to-door flying a reality, drastically reducing commute times and decongesting our cities for a cleaner, greener future. We're a passionate team of engineers, designers, and visionaries working on cutting-edge technology, and we're looking for brilliant minds to help us take flight.

Chart the Course for the Future of Flight

We are looking for a software developer where you will develop,  build,  and maintain the internal platform services that empower engineers across the organization to work more efficiently. As part of this role, you will work on internal engineering tools and other tools that enable operations for the next generation of mobility while working on accelerating the development and deployment of novel engineering tools for which you will play a crucial role in the development, testing, and deployment of these tools working in partnership with our internal Machine Learning, Optimization, and Simulation teams

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and maintain high-performance internal platform services and engineering tools that empower cross-functional teams to work more efficiently.
  

• Develop Software that can solve messy problems at the intersection of low latency and high correctness
  

• Create prototypes and production-ready tools to support rapid experimentation and internal operations.
  

• Contribute to the design of new features and system enhancements from conceptualization to end deployment
  

• Develop algorithms solving problems relating to engineering simulations, fleet management, and internal tooling
  

• Develop robust deployment pipelines and packaging solutions to operationalize work from Machine Learning, Optimization, and Simulation teams.
  

• Diagnose and resolve critical technical issues and system bottlenecks, identifying root causes
  

• Conduct robust unit/integration testing strategies for developed code
  

• Be a part of code reviews and provide feedback to ensure best practices
  

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Software development in C++/Rust/Python/Java
  

• Development and understanding of Data structures and algorithms
  

• Fundamentals of Systems Design
  

• Experience working with databases and distributed systems, with an understanding of performance and reliability trade-offs
  

• Understanding of concepts in memory management, messaging systems
  

• Understanding of writing unit tests, and software testing
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Foundational background in parallel programming concepts across CPU and GPU systems
  

• Experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency backend services
  

• Experience with geospatial data, location-based services, or real-time data serving systems.