# Software Engineer - Internal Applications at Hermeus

- Company: Hermeus
- What the company does: Reclaiming the lost art of rapid iterative prototyping to build fast and powerful aircraft on relevant timelines, delivering the high-speed systems our nation and its allies need to command the skies and deter global threats. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.hermeus.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $226K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/hermeus/1602c0e0-10fe-4fc9-ac0f-22ce2a2c0d18
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hermeus-software-engineer-internal-applications/

## About the role

This role will take ownership of applications as they transition from their original creators into long-term IT support. The engineer will be responsible for understanding the existing architecture and codebase, improving maintainability and reliability, resolving issues, implementing new functionality, and establishing the development practices necessary to operate these applications as supported enterprise services.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional software development or application engineering experience
- Strong experience maintaining and extending existing production applications, not only building new applications
- Experience with modern application development frameworks and REST APIs
- Experience working with Git-based source control and software development lifecycle practices
- Experience troubleshooting applications across code, infrastructure, integrations, and data layers
- Experience with cloud-hosted applications, preferably AWS

Tags: Information / Software Engineering