Backend Systems Engineer, Space Mission Platform

Loft Orbital; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Up to 35 days PTO (vacations & RTT)

Health and life insurance

Lunch vouchers

Cross-office travel: SF, CO, Toulouse

Relocation assistance to Toulouse

Job summary

Loft Orbital is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission Platform. You will develop a brand-new product to optimize tasking across a heterogeneous satellite constellation and scale to 50+ satellites and 100,000s of orders.

You will design, build, and optimize backend services, interfaces, and pipelines from plan to onboard execution, while solving multi-objective optimization problems and ensuring robust, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software-related field and 2+ years designing and developing backend software.
• Proven ability to work independently and solve complex problems in fast-paced settings.
• Experience with system design and scalable backend architectures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor constellation of satellites.
• Interface with teams to design the customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline from plan to onboard execution.
• Build tools and services that help sales and operators understand capacity, risks and growth opportunities.
• Solve complex multi-objective optimization problems to maximize collection capacity while balancing constraints.
• Design systems of systems by decomposing problems into well-bounded services with clear interfaces and scalable interactions.

Skills

Backend design

Python experience

System design

Independent problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or related field

Master's degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or related field

Tools

Django/GraphQL stacks

Job description

Loft Orbital is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission Platform. You will develop a brand-new product to optimize tasking across a heterogeneous satellite constellation and scale to 50+ satellites and 100,000s of orders.

You will design, build, and optimize backend services, interfaces, and pipelines from plan to onboard execution, while solving multi-objective optimization problems and ensuring robust, scalable systems.