Hovercar Startup | Senior Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems

Application Instructions

Submit your resume and CV (optional) here on Indeed or send it to connect@nexusnovainnovations.com. You may also include a GitHub profile, portfolio, or examples of systems you have helped build.

About Us

Nexus Nova Innovations is an early-stage startup based in Des Moines, Iowa, developing next-generation aerial mobility technology and the systems needed to support it.

We are seeking a backend/distributed systems engineer to build the core of our software platform. This person will develop the event-driven architecture, API layer, multi-tenant data structure, flight-slot allocation logic, and the engine that compares live vehicle telemetry against authorized flight envelopes.

This is a foundational role. You will not be maintaining an existing platform—you will be one of the people making it exist. We are looking for someone who has built real-time systems where accuracy, reliability, and uptime genuinely mattered.

Experience in aviation is welcome, but it is not required. Strong candidates may come from robotics, telecommunications, financial infrastructure, logistics, industrial systems, or another field where software must remain dependable under pressure.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Platform Development: Build the backend services and event-driven architecture that power the platform.
• Real-Time Telemetry: Process live vehicle data while accounting for delayed, duplicated, missing, or out-of-order information.
• Conformance Monitoring: Develop the logic that compares vehicle movement against approved routes, altitudes, timing, and operating boundaries.
• Slot Allocation: Build the system used to assign and manage time- and location-based flight slots.
• API Development: Create secure APIs for vehicles, operator consoles, customers, and approved external systems.
• Multi-Tenant Data: Design the data model for multiple operators, vehicles, missions, and customers while keeping thei...