Backend Engineer (Python) – Build Core APIs with Equity

EVONA; Arvada (CO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EVONA is seeking a Backend Engineer to build the foundational services behind a modern satellite-operations platform. This hands-on role focuses on production Python, designing and building backend services, APIs and data systems used by customers operating real spacecraft.

The ideal candidate has strong Python production experience, API/microservice skills, and practical AWS knowledge, with comfort working in a hybrid environment across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• At least three years of professional backend or full-stack software development.
• Strong hands-on production Python experience.
• Experience building APIs, microservices or other backend applications.
• Practical AWS experience.
• Experience working with databases and data models.
• Understanding of testing, debugging and production software support.
• Ability to clearly explain personal ownership, technical decisions and engineering tradeoffs.
• Comfortable working independently within a collaborative startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production Python backend services
• Develop scalable APIs and foundational platform capabilities
• Own features from technical design through testing, deployment and production support
• Build reliable services that process and distribute operational data
• Design integrations between internal services and external customer systems
• Work with relational and non-relational databases
• Improve service performance, reliability, observability and security
• Troubleshoot issues across applications, databases and distributed systems
• Collaborate with product, frontend, platform and aerospace engineering teams
• Help shape architecture and engineering standards as the platform scales
• Contribute to a fast-moving product environment with meaningful individual ownership

Skills

Production Python

APIs & microservices

AWS

Databases

Testing/production support

Independent work

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

EVONA is seeking a Backend Engineer to build the foundational services behind a modern satellite-operations platform. This hands-on role focuses on production Python, designing and building backend services, APIs and data systems used by customers operating real spacecraft.

The ideal candidate has strong Python production experience, API/microservice skills, and practical AWS knowledge, with comfort working in a hybrid environment across multiple locations.