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Engineering Manager, Frontend

San Jose, CA

About the role

Muon seeks an Engineering Manager to lead our Frontend team. This team builds and ships features across our Mission Command platform, the consolidated frontend for mission operations, customer-facing tools, and internal workflows. The team works in a modern TypeScript and is establishing this platform as the canonical interface for managing constellations, scheduling contacts, and monitoring satellite operations at scale.

The Frontend team is critical to the overall growth and success of Muon's product offerings. As the number of products and services delivered to customers expands, the reliable, high-performance, and accessible experiences this team delivers directly determine how effectively satellite operators and customers can accomplish their work every day. This manager will inherit a team of engineers, and will be responsible for both scaling that team to meet current demand and evolving it into a product-minded frontend organization that establishes the unified web platform as the canonical interface for Muon's mission and operational needs.

This position is hybrid and requires working on-site in our San Jose, CA office three days per week. 

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow the Frontend team. Own hiring, performance management, coaching, and team composition for a growing frontend organization. Actively recruit engineers to meet the demands of a rapidly scaling software department.
  • Define team goals, and technical roadmaps that align with companies priorities.
  • Ensure reliability, performance, and accessibility of the experiences your team ships to satellite operators, customers, and internal users.
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders to translate mission needs into clear requirements and technical specifications.
  • Drive engineering best practices including design reviews, code quality, testing, and observability.
  • Manage team capacity, staffing, and growth, including hiring, coaching, and performance development.
  • Promote a culture of technical ownership, continuous improvement, and pragmatic delivery.
  • Build feedback loops with product and backend partners and end users, prioritize based on real friction, and hold clear ownership boundaries so the team stays focused on delivering high-quality, reliable user experiences.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years managing software engineering teams building and operating production systems.
  • Direct experience managing a frontend, web, or product engineering team, including responsibility for hiring, performance management, coaching, and shaping team composition.
  • Strong technical background in frontend/web development, with hands-on depth in strongly-typed frontend languages such as TypeScript or Flow and modern web application architecture.
  • Demonstrated experience building and supporting complex web applications in production, with real reliability, performance, and accessibility requirements.
  • Experience working in codebases with automated CI/CD pipelines and static analysis enforcement, and a focus on semantically correct, stable, clean code.
  • Proficiency in code revision management within larger, fast-moving teams.
  • Experience defining technical direction and driving execution through a team, including prioritization, roadmap ownership, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, product, and design.

Nice-to-have Skills

  • Experience with SSR (server-side rendering), RSC (React server components), and isomorphic code.
  • Experience with 3D applications, interactive mapping, and/or geospatial data visualization.
  • Experience with accessibility-focused component libraries (e.g., React Aria, Radix UI) and frontend observability tooling (e.g., Grafana Faro, OpenTelemetry, Sentry).
  • Experience scaling a frontend or product engineering team through a period of rapid organizational growth, including work with large, cross-team monorepos.
  • Familiarity with aerospace, satellite operations, or other high-reliability / mission-critical domains.

Salary

The salary range for this role is $210,000 - $234,000, plus a competitive equity grant and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location as assessed during the interview process. 

About Muon Space

Founded in 2021, Muon Space is an end-to-end Space Systems Provider that designs, builds, and operates LEO satellite constellations delivering mission-critical data. Our revolutionary, integrated technology stack enables customers to optimize every dimension of their missions for faster time-to-orbit and superior constellation remote sensing performance. Our state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Silicon Valley is optimized for manufacturing spacecraft and rapid, flexible payload integration at scale. From climate monitoring to national security, Muon Space is dedicated to delivering Earth Intelligence for a safer and more resilient world.

Taking Care of Our Team

At Muon salary is only part of our total compensation package. In addition to salary, full-time employees receive equity compensation as well as benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401k retirement plan, short & long term disability and life insurance. We also offer three weeks paid vacation for new employees, along with 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time and paid parental leave.

Our mission embraces the entire planet and we believe our team should too.  Muon is dedicated to creating a diverse and dynamic company and workforce. We believe in equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or gender identity. We value diversity in the workplace, and that starts with our applicants. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check all the boxes, and we look forward to reviewing your application! In addition, if you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

ITAR/EAR Requirements

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. The Company may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

 

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