Backend Software Engineer - Mission Planning Strategy — San Francisco

Wanna join the adventure? Loft Orbital is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join theMission 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.