Software Developer – Ground Control System (GCS)

Software Developer – Ground Control System (GCS)

Apply for the Software Developer – Ground Control System (GCS) role at TEKEVER.

Are you ready to revolutionize the world with TEKEVER? At TEKEVER, we lead innovation in Europe as the European leader in unmanned technology, where cutting‑edge advancements meet unparalleled innovation. We operate across four strategic areas, combining artificial intelligence, systems engineering, data science, and aerospace technology to tackle global challenges — from protecting people and critical infrastructure to exploring space. Our surveillance‑as‑a‑service solution delivers real‑time intelligence, enhancing maritime safety and saving lives. We support strategic and operational decisions in the most demanding environments — whether at sea, on land, in space, or in cyberspace. Join a dynamic, multidisciplinary, mission‑driven team that is transforming maritime surveillance and redefining global safety standards.

TEKEVER’s mission is to provide limitless support through mission‑oriented game‑changers, delivering the right information at the right time to empower critical decision‑making. If you’re passionate about technology and eager to shape the future, TEKEVER is the place for you.

Mission

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Developer to help design, build, and evolve TEKEVER’s Ground Control System — the core software that plans, monitors, and controls our unmanned aircraft missions. In this role, you will contribute across different GCS initiatives depending on business needs, from real‑time flight systems to mission tooling, payload control, comms/messaging, and operator workflows. You will also play a key role in our transition toward an agentic development approach, enabling more autonomy, automation, and AI‑assisted engineering across the team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex technical environments, values high ownership, and wants to help shape the future of a mission‑critical product used globally.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Ownership & Delivery
  • Design, build, and maintain backend components of the Ground Control System using C#/. NET.
  • Implement robust real‑time systems that manage telemetry, mission planning, payload operations, and operator workflows.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and scalability across different modules of the GCS codebase.
  • Contribute to modernizing architecture, tools, and engineering practices as the system evolves.
• Architecture & System Design
  • Design APIs, messaging flows, asynchronous pipelines, and multi‑threaded components for high‑reliability environments.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions around modularity, data flows, error‑handling, and system decomposition.
  • Work with classification systems, message processors, payload interfaces, and complex stateful components.
  • Help shape architectural direction in collaboration with software architects and product owners.
• Agentic Development & Automation
  • Use AI/LLM‑based tools to accelerate development, refactoring, documentation, and testing.
  • Support the design of internal autonomous agents that assist with coding, validation, CI/CD, and documentation.
  • Promote automation and tooling that reduces manual effort and increases engineering leverage.
  • Help define safe, reviewable, and high‑quality AI‑assisted workflows for the team.
• Quality, Reliability & Operations
  • Ensure high‑quality code through strong testing strategies, clean patterns, and consistent documentation.
  • Analyze complex performance and concurrency issues, especially in real‑time data environments.
  • Improve system observability through structured logging, instrumentation, and monitoring.
  • Collaborate with Dev
    Ops and QA to ensure smooth delivery pipelines and reproducible builds.

Experience / What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Background in C# and. NET (Framework and/or. NET 6+).
• Experience building real‑time, high‑availability, or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience with large desktop or client applications (WPF experience is a plus).

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in C#, async programming, multi‑threading, and memory management.
• Experience designing APIs, distributed systems, or event‑driven workflows.
• Familiarity with messaging systems (Rabbit
  MQ, Kafka, etc. ), Docker/containerisation, CI/CD tooling (Git
  Lab, Git
  Hub, Jenkins, etc. ), observability stacks (ELK, Graylog, Prometheus, Grafana), and data streaming or real‑time telemetry.
• Experience with WPF/MVVM or desktop application architecture is an advantage.

Mindset & Soft Skills

• Strong sense of ownership and engineering autonomy.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Excellent debugging, problem‑solving, and system‑design thinking.
• Strong communication skills and collaborative mindset.
• Enthusiasm for automation, AI‑assisted development, and continuous improvement.

Why Join TEKEVER GCS

• Work on software that powers real UAV operations around the world.
• Influence architecture, tooling, and engineering practices across the GCS product line.
• Help drive TEKEVER’s transition to agentic engineering and AI‑assisted development.
• Join a team that values autonomy, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Contribute to meaningful, high‑impact missions across maritime, defence, and civil applications.

Location

Hybrid in Lisbon's office or Caldas da Rainha.