Backend Engineer - Oort
About The Position
Loft Orbital is hiring a Backend Engineer for its Oort team. Oort is Loft’s central web platform, consolidating infrastructure data and tools to support the full mission lifecycle. It connects mission phases, operational teams, and business processes through shared information and workflows. The Backend Engineer will build and operate backend features that collect, manage, and surface critical infrastructure data. The role involves designing APIs and integrations across tools, teams, and systems, and working with program management, satellite engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to understand processes and turn them into intuitive, reliable software. The engineer will apply a product mindset by seeking user feedback, identifying friction in backend workflows and UI/UX, and delivering solutions that simplify the work of teams building and operating space infrastructure. The role includes ownership of features from design through production operations.
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.
- Passion for making complex, multi-team technical endeavors more efficient and standardized.
- Ability to dissect complex business and technical processes, map them end-to-end, and identify friction points and opportunities for solutions.
- Ability to work in team environments and communicate complex ideas clearly.
- Ability to support collaboration among engineering, operations, and business functions.
- Proactive problem-solving skills and willingness to respectfully challenge assumptions.
- Fluency in English.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing, modeling, or analyzing space missions, with an understanding of mission lifecycle complexities.
- Proficiency with Django and GraphQL.
- Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure platforms such as GCP or AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with testing tools such as PyTest, Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, or Cypress.
- 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 connecting tools and data across teams and systems.
- Work with program management, satellite engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to understand mission, program, and business processes.
- Translate stakeholder processes into intuitive and reliable software.
- Seek user feedback, identify friction in backend workflows and UI/UX, and deliver solutions that reduce complexity.
- Own features from design through production operations.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending (FSA) and Health Savings (HSA) 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.
- 12 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan.
- Equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and office snacks.
- 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 fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support.
- 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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