Relativity Space

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing · 2k people

Staff Software Engineer, Front-End Platforms

Posted 4 Nov

What’s this role about? You will own the frontend platform and design system for the operator UI, defining the architecture that allows domain teams to ship cohesive modules. Additionally, you will lead the consolidation of multiple frontends into a unified platform while ensuring high-performance rendering for safety-critical hardware telemetry.

Long Beach, California

On-site

$181K – $271K

Full-time

10+ years exp

Long Beach, CA 90809

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Company

About Relativity Space Relativity Space is on a mission to make access to space more reliable and routine. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, Terran R, will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Relativity Space

relativityspace.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

Long Beach, CA

2016

Privately Held

239k LinkedIn followers

Raised $1.4B

Qualification

SoftwareTechnologyEngineeringManufacturingData & Analytics

Required

Significant experience (typically 8+ years) building production web applications, with deep TypeScript and React expertise
A track record owning a frontend platform, design system, or large shared codebase that other teams depend on
Strong frontend performance skills: profiling, render optimization, and keeping complex UIs responsive under heavy, continuous data
Experience architecting state management and data flow for data-intensive apps (e.g., Redux, streaming/WebSocket data, Web Workers)
Ability to set cross-team architecture and technical direction, and mentor senior engineers

Preferred

Real-time data visualization / charting, or industrial control, SCADA, or hardware-in-the-loop experience
Familiarity with binary streaming protocols (WebSockets/protobuf) and offloading work to Web Workers
Experience with a monorepo build system (Bazel) or embedding code editors (Monaco)
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
Hiring Range
$181,000—$271,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive salary
Equity
Generous PTO
Sick leave
Parental leave
Annual learning and development stipend

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