Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy

San Francisco, CAfull timeOn Site$150k–$195kH1B: no

Loftorbital The Backend Software Engineer at Loft Orbital develops a new software product optimizing tasking across a large constellation of multi-sensor satellites. The role involves designing, building, and optimizing scalable backend systems to handle 50+ satellites and hundreds of thousands of customer tasking orders.

Responsibilities

Develop a brand new software product that optimizes tasking across a large heterogeneous constellation of multi-sensor satellites
Scale to fly 50+ satellites serving hundreds of thousands of customer tasking orders
Design, build and optimize a brand new product from scratch
Solve challenging problems in astrodynamics, satellite capacity modeling and simulation
Improve back-end/API performance
Design low latency, high responsiveness systems
Address mathematical optimization and scheduling problems