Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy

The role

You will build a new software product that manages customer orders and tasking across a multi-sensor constellation of satellites. You will design customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline from plan to onboard execution.

What you will do

• Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor satellite constellation
• Work with teams to design customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline from plan to onboard execution
• Build tools and services that help sales and operators understand current and future capacity, operational risks and growth opportunities
• Solve complex multi-objective optimization problems that maximize collection capacity, balancing conflicting customer constraints
• Design systems of systems: break complex problems into well-bounded services with clear interfaces, and reason about how they interact, fail and scale

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or a related field
• 2+ years of experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python
• Proven track record of operating independently and solving complex problems
• Experience with system design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics or a related field
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python
• Proficiency with Django/GraphQL stacks
• Hands-on experience operating spacecraft
• Experience with C++ or high-performance Python (vectorization, Numba, GPU parallelization)
• Demonstrated practical experience building high-performance backend applications and/or libraries
• Specialization in integer/linear/multi-objective optimization or Operations Research, back-end/API performance, distributed systems, security, Earth observation tasking, or high-performance computing

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% company-paid life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Fully paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Flexible time off and 12 paid holidays
• HSA with employer contribution, FSAs and commuter benefits
• Carrot Fertility, One Medical and a free Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) and equity
• Daily catered lunches and snacks in office
• Annual company off-site and regular social events
• International exposure to the team in France
• Relocation assistance when applicable

Before you apply

• Attach a copy of your resume in English

About the company

Loft provides governments, companies and research institutions a fast, reliable way to deploy missions in orbit, offering end-to-end missions as a service. Founded in 2017, it has flown more than 30 missions and plans a fleet of 30 satellites by 2027.