Backend Software Engineer on a small team building a new Mission Platform product that optimizes satellite tasking across a multi-sensor constellation, targeting 50+ satellites and 100,000s of orders. Work covers multi-objective optimization, back-end/API performance, and system design, with Python backend services and optional Django/GraphQL. Role includes interfacing with teams on customer interfaces and the plan-to-onboard-execution pipeline.
Wanna join the adventure?
Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission 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:
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 ideal candidate can operate independently in a fast-paced environment and challenge requirements.
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Who We Are
Loft: Space Made Simple.
Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.
We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.
With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.
As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.
Compensation: USD 150,000 – 195,000 per year salary