Software Engineer - Full Stack

The Role
Specter is hiring a full stack engineer to build and scale the applications that bring our sensing and perception platform to life. You'll be responsible for developing intuitive, high-performance interfaces and APIs that connect users to a world of real-time physical intelligence, spanning video, sensor data, and alerts across our distributed infrastructure. This role bridges Specter's cloud infrastructure and customer-facing experiences, owning the reliability, performance, and usability of the software surfaces that define how operators interact with the physical world.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable full-stack web applications that visualize live sensor and video data.
• Build high-performance APIs and data models in PostgreSQL, ensuring low-latency reads and writes for time-series and event data.
• Develop rich, reactive dashboards and control interfaces using React, TypeScript, and TanStack Query/Router/Table.
• Integrate real-time updates from WebSockets, Kafka streams, or REST APIs into intuitive front-end components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to optimize performance across the edge–cloud pipeline.
• Implement secure authentication, role-based access control, and enterprise-grade user management.
• Own end-to-end feature development (from schema design to front-end polish) in mission-critical applications.

Qualifications:

• Deep experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web app patterns (hooks, context, component-driven design).
• Strong backend experience with Node.js or Python, and relational database design in PostgreSQL.
• Expertise in TanStack (Query, Router, Table) for state management, data synchronization, and UI responsiveness.
• Familiarity with WebSockets, GraphQL, or real-time event delivery systems.
• Experience building and deploying applications in Docker or Kubernetes environments.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, caching, and API performance optimization.
• Experience visualizing spatial, temporal, or operational data (e.g., with Mapbox, Recharts, D3).
• Interest in physical AI, IoT, or large-scale distributed sensing systems.