Backend Software Engineer (Mission Planning Strategy)

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Software Engineer (Mission Planning Strategy)
• Focus: Building a new backend/API product for mission planning and customer tasking optimization

Description

Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor satellite constellation, taking a plan from creation through onboarding execution. Build backend services and tools that enable sales and operators to understand current and future capacity, operational risks, and growth opportunities. Solve complex multi-objective optimization and scheduling problems while designing scalable, low-latency systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize backend services managing customer orders and tasking
• Interface with teams on customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline from plan to execution
• Create tools and services for capacity, risk, and opportunity assessment
• Solve multi-objective optimization problems maximizing collection capacity under conflicting constraints
• Decompose complex problems into well-bounded services and reason about interaction, failure, and scaling

Requirements

• 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 for technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to Haves

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

Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (employees and dependents)
• FSA and HSA accounts with employer contribution to HSA
• 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Flexible Time Off and 12 paid holidays
• 401(k) plan and equity options
• Daily catered lunches and snacks
• International exposure to the team in France
• Fully paid parental leave (14 weeks primary caregiver, 10 weeks secondary caregiver)
• Carrot Fertility benefits with financial support
• Off-sites and social events and celebrations
• Relocation assistance when applicable
• Base compensation range: $150,000–$195,000 per year