Software Engineer - Full Stack

Company Background

Specter is creating a software-defined “control plane” for the physical world. We are starting with protecting American businesses by granting them ubiquitous perception over their physical assets.

To do so, we are creating a connected hardware-software ecosystem on top of multi-modal wireless mesh sensing technology. This allows us to drive down the cost and time of deploying sensors by 10x. Our platform will ultimately become the perception engine for a company’s physical footprint, enabling real-time perimeter visibility, autonomous operations management, and “digital twinning” of physical processes.

Our co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast-approaching world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast-growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.

Role + Responsibilities

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.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Designing and implementing scalable full-stack web applications that visualize live sensor and video data.

• Building high-performance APIs and data models in PostgreSQL, ensuring low-latency reads and writes for time-series and event data.

• Developing rich, reactive dashboards and control interfaces using React, TypeScript, and TanStack Query/Router/Table.

• Integrating real-time updates from WebSockets, Kafka streams, or REST APIs into intuitive front-end components.

• Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize performance across the edge–cloud pipeline.

• Implementing secure authentication, role-based access control, and enterprise-grade user management.

• Owning end-to-end feature development (from schema design to front-end polish) in mission-critical applications.

Preferred 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.