Senior Software Engineer

Orbital; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Equity

Learning budget for conferences and工具

London meetups optional

Job summary

Orbital is building a data integration platform and open source schema language, spanning from language design and compilation to query execution. The role focuses on shaping a developing product with an emphasis on dependable, secure, and observable behavior.

The candidate will work across platform components, schema tooling, and integrations used in banking/financial contexts. Remote-first, UK/Europe time zones; equity and learning budget are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering across the full stack.
• Comfort with ambiguous requirements and evolving scope.
• Ability to work remotely in UK-friendly time zones.

Responsibilities

• Build platform components across language, compiler, query engine and product.
• Develop the schema language and tools for semantic data layers.
• Deliver deterministic, auditable, observable integrations that recover from change.
• Share technical learning via writing, talks or open source work.
• Contribute to a product used in financial settings.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Kotlin/JVM

Compilers

Language tooling

Query engines

Event streaming (Kafka/RabbitMQ)

Remote collaboration

Tools

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Angular/TypeScript

Job description

Help develop a data integration platform and its open source schema language, working across the stack from language design and compilation to query execution. The product turns descriptions of the data a user needs into integrations, with an emphasis on dependable, secure and observable behavior. The role suits an engineer who enjoys shaping a developing product and working through ambiguous technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve platform components across the language, compiler, query engine and surrounding product.
• Develop the schema language and tools that support semantic layers for enterprise data.
• Help deliver integrations that are deterministic, auditable, observable and able to recover from change.
• Contribute to improvements in a product used in banking and financial settings.
• Share technical learning through writing, talks or open source work where relevant.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience and willingness to work across the full stack.
• Comfort working on problems whose solutions and requirements are not fully defined in advance.
• Ability to work remotely within UK-friendly time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience with event streaming tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, or with Angular and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Kotlin/JVM, compilers, language tooling or query engines.
• Familiarity with Spring AI, LLM-based agents, financial services or enterprise integration.
• Public technical writing, conference talks or open source contributions.

Benefits and work setup

• Full-time, permanent, remote-first role for candidates in the UK or Europe; other locations may be considered where employment arrangements allow.
• Competitive salary, with early-stage equity also mentioned.
• Budget for learning, conferences, community events, travel, hardware and tools; meeting in London is optional.