Portside is a leading provider of modern software solutions for the global aviation industry. As a fast-growing SaaS company, we operate across three key verticals: business aviation, regional commercial aviation, and aircraft leasing & finance. With nearly 300 team members spread across five continents, we support over 1,000 enterprise customers, helping them streamline and manage all aspects of their day-to-day operations.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced and motivated fullstack (.NET, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS) engineer to join our Flight Scheduling System (PFM) team. This system is a mission-critical "system of record" for business aircraft operators that supports scheduling of aircraft and crew member operations. It provides flight and crew legality checks; keeps track of crew training, rest, and qualifications; and manages passenger details and documents. The system also offers record keeping and reporting, integrated fuel pricing and ordering, and integrates with other Portside and third-party platforms and products. These integrations include tasks like aircraft maintenance, ordering services for crew and aircraft, performing safety checks and weight-and-balance calculations for the aircraft, filing flight plans, among many other functions.

You’ll be working with a team of professional engineers who are in love with aviation, eager to share their in-depth knowledge, and captivated by the idea of building a world-class flight management system.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable and secure software solutions using C#/.NET/HTML/JavaScript/CSS, following best practices (SOLID, DRY, KISS) to develop features for the Flight Management System that support flight and crew operations.
Develop and maintain APIs, ensuring they meet high performance, reliability, and security standards for internal and external system integrations
Design database schemas, manage database operations and SQL queries, ensuring efficient database reliability
Write unit and integration tests, contribute to the test strategy execution and overall quality of the company products
Follow the company’s code and development standards
Refactor existing software components in order to eliminate technical debt and improve application extensibility
Estimate software development work in conjunction with the product team
Deploy software releases to production and other environments
Use and maintain CI/CD pipelines in coordination with the DevOps team
Use and maintain infrastructure in coordination with the DevOps team
Work closely with the security team to maintain compliance with the company’s security standards
Conduct code reviews
Collaborate with the management team on setting project goals and their execution

Qualifications

Expert skills .NET and C#
Strong knowledge of SQL (database normalization, indexing, stored procedures, triggers and user-rights)
Strong experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Web Components, native JavaScript module imports, OOP and functional methodologies
Strong knowledge of how the web works: HTTP cycle, content-security-policy, cookies, tokens, etc.
Experience in designing applications architecture, good understanding of the MVC, SOLID, DRY, KISS, design patterns and other development best practices; strong and consistent understanding of REST API
Solid understanding and comfortable with GIT best practices, commits, tags, branching, pull-requests
Great troubleshooting skills
Strong motivation and willingness to learn
Practical and results-oriented engineering mindset
Desire to build reliable and efficient solutions
Interest in business aviation and in becoming a domain expert in the field
Comfort with vanilla JavaScript (outside of standard frameworks) is a plus
Familiarity with VB.NET is a plus
Good understanding of CI/CD principles and experience in writing unit and integration tests is a plus
Experience working with Blazor and Telerik Component Libraries is a plus
Experience with designing intuitive user interfaces with consistent styles and UX paradigms is a plus
Experience with Google APIs (maps, geolocation, charts) is a plus
Experience with Mobile App development and deployment (primarily iOS) via XCode, Flutter, Cordova, etc. is a plus
Familiarity with newer Web API technologies (server-side-events, sockets, web/shared-workers, WebAssembly, notifications)