Backend Engineer - Oort
About The Position
Loft Orbital is hiring a Backend Engineer for its Oort team. Oort is a central web platform that consolidates infrastructure data and tools to help manage the mission lifecycle and connect mission phases, operational teams, and business processes. The engineer will build and operate backend features that collect, manage, and surface infrastructure data across the Loft mission lifecycle. The role involves designing APIs and integrations, working with stakeholders across program management, satellite engineering, operations, and business teams to understand their processes, and translating those processes into reliable, intuitive software. The role also applies a product mindset: gathering user feedback, identifying friction in backend workflows and UI/UX, and delivering solutions that reduce complexity.
Requirements
- Demonstrated proficiency in Python for backend engineering.
- Practical experience using Docker for containerization and deployment in scalable environments.
- Experience in backend architecture, including API design and robust database interactions.
- Hands-on experience building, operating, or integrating technologies for space missions.
- Ability to analyze complex business and technical processes end-to-end and identify friction points and opportunities for solutions.
- Ability to collaborate in teams, communicate complex ideas clearly, and support collaboration between engineering, operations, and business functions.
- Proactive problem-solving skills and comfort challenging assumptions respectfully and owning features from design through production operations.
- Fluency in English.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the design, modeling, or analysis of space missions, with an understanding of mission lifecycle complexities.
- Proficiency with Django and GraphQL, and familiarity with cloud infrastructure platforms such as GCP or AWS and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with testing tools such as PyTest, Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress, and strong CI/CD practices.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend features that collect, manage, and surface infrastructure data across the Loft mission lifecycle.
- Design and implement APIs and integrations that connect tools and data across teams and systems.
- Work with program management, satellite engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to understand mission design, program, and business processes.
- Translate stakeholder processes into intuitive, reliable software.
- Seek user feedback, identify friction in backend workflows and UI/UX, and deliver solutions that reduce complexity.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance option for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts, with an employer contribution to the HSA.
- 100% employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible Time Off for vacation and sick leave, and 12 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks in the office.
- International exposure to the team in France.
- Fully paid parental leave: 14 weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Carrot Fertility benefits with financial support for fertility healthcare and family formation.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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