Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy
Loft Orbital Solutions2 days ago
Golden, CO, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve a software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor satellite constellation.
- Design customer-facing interfaces and backend pipelines from planning through onboard execution.
- Build tools and services for understanding satellite capacity, operational risks, and growth opportunities.
- Solve multi-objective optimization problems involving customer constraints and collection capacity.
- Design systems of systems by decomposing complex problems into scalable services with clear interfaces.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Physics/Astrodynamics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience designing and developing software libraries and backend services, preferably in Python.
- Proven ability to work independently and solve complex problems.
- Experience with system design.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, 5+ years of relevant experience, Django/GraphQL, spacecraft operations, C++, high-performance Python, distributed systems, security, Earth observation tasking, or high-performance computing.
- Preferred specialization includes integer, linear, or multi-objective optimization and other operations research problems, backend/API performance optimization, distributed systems, security, Earth observation tasking, or high-performance computing.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and fertility and family-forming benefits.
- 401(k) plan and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches, snacks, off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- International exposure to the France-based team and relocation assistance when applicable.
About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.