Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy

Wanna join the adventure? Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Mission Platform organization. You'll work on a small and driven team, developing a brand new software product that optimizes tasking across a large heterogeneous constellation of multi-sensor satellites: scale to fly 50+ satellites, serving 100,000s of customer tasking orders design, build and optimize a brand new product from scratch solve challenging problems across multiple domains: Astrodynamics, satellite capacity modeling and simulation Back-end/API performance Low latency, high responsiveness system design Mathematical optimization and scheduling problems We're looking for someone with a solid background in software engineering, ideally with a proven track record of building systems from scratch and solving complex, system-level problems. The ideal candidate can operate independently in a fast-paced environment and challenge requirements. About this role: Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor constellation of satellites Interface with teams to help design the customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline that goes from a plan to onboard execution Build tools and services that help sales and operators understand current and future capacity, operational risks and opportunities for growth Solve complex multi-objective optimization problems that maximize collection capacity, balancing various (conflicting)