Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy

Telemetry Today LLC; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Loft Orbital in Toulouse is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission Platform team. You will design and build a brand new backend product that optimizes tasking across a large constellation of multi-sensor satellites, with scale to 50+ satellites and hundreds of thousands of customer orders.

You will tackle astrodynamics, capacity modeling, and scheduling challenges with a focus on high performance.

Qualifications

• Backend software development experience.
• Experience building systems from scratch.
• Strong problem-solving and optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimize a brand new backend product for satellite tasking.
• Focus on performance, scalability and low latency APIs.
• Collaborate with a small, driven team on complex space systems.

Job description

Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join theMission Platform organization.

You'll work on a small and driven team, developing a brand new software product that optimizes tasking across a large heterogeneous constellation of multi-sensor satellites:

scale to fly 50+ satellites, serving 100,000s of customer tasking orders

design, build and optimize a brand new product from scratch

Astrodynamics, satellite capacity modeling and simulation

Back-end/API performance

Low latency, high responsiveness system design

Mathematical optimization and scheduling problems

We're looking for someone with a solid background in software engineering, ideally with a proven track record of building systems from scratch and solving complex, system-level problems. The ide al candida te can operate independently in a fast-paced environment and challenge requirements.