About TEKEVER

TEKEVER is Europe's leading uncrewed technology company, operating across Digital, Defence, Security, and Space sectors.

The Role

We are seeking a Software Developer to design and evolve our Ground Control System—core software managing unmanned aircraft operations. The role emphasizes technical ownership across real-time flight systems, mission tooling, and payload control.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership & Delivery

• Build backend components using C#/.NET for the GCS platform

• Implement robust real-time systems that manage telemetry, mission planning, payload operations, and operator workflows

• Enhance performance, reliability, and scalability across codebase modules

Architecture & System Design

• Design APIs, messaging flows, and asynchronous pipelines for high-reliability environments

• Contribute to architectural decisions on modularity and system decomposition

• Work with complex stateful components and payload interfaces

Agentic Development & Automation

• Leverage AI/LLM tools to accelerate development and testing workflows

• Support autonomous agent design for coding assistance and CI/CD automation

• Help define safe, reviewable, and high-quality AI-assisted workflows for the team

Quality & Operations

• Ensure code quality through testing strategies and documentation

• Analyze performance and concurrency issues in real-time environments

• Improve observability through logging and monitoring systems

Requirements

Experience

• 2+ years professional software development

• C# and .NET (Framework or .NET 6+) proficiency

• Real-time, high-availability systems background

• Large desktop application experience preferred

Technical Skills

• Async programming, multi-threading, memory management expertise

• API and distributed systems design experience

• Familiarity with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka), Docker, CI/CD tools, and observability platforms

• WPF/MVVM knowledge is advantageous

Soft Skills

• Strong engineering ownership and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Enthusiasm for automation, AI-assisted development, and continuous improvement

What TEKEVER Offers

• Hybrid role in Lisbon or Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

• Work on UAV operations software globally

• Influence GCS architecture

• Drive agentic engineering adoption

• Join an autonomy-focused technical team