Technical Lead Backend Civil Aviation

As Technical Lead for the Civil Aviation team, you will define the architectural foundations of a backend system that will operate at the center of U.S. air travel for the next decade and beyond. This isn't a greenfield experiment. This is a platform that needs to be right the first time and maintainable by future engineers who had no hand in building it. The core technical challenge is data fusion at operational scale: ingesting disparate, noisy, and potentially conflicting data streams, from radar, flight plans, weather systems, operator inputs, and more, and resolving them into a single, authoritative view of the world. From there, the system projects that state forward in time, enabling optimization across a complex set of competing conditions and constraints. The person in this role needs to have strong intuitions about how to model uncertainty, how to reason about data provenance and confidence, and how to build systems that degrade gracefully when inputs are incomplete or wrong. You'll set and enforce the design principles that keep complexity manageable as the system grows: strict module boundaries, clean abstractions, and interfaces that don't leak implementation details. You'll make the hard calls about what belongs where, and explain them clearly enough that your team internalizes the reasoning, not just the rule. You'll lead a small team of engineers while staying hands-on, guiding implementation from design through delivery. You'll collaborate closely with product, platform, and domain experts. Your north star is a system that remains comprehensible and extensible long after the initial build.