Senior Backend Engineer - Mission Experiences

Wanna join the adventure?

Loft Orbital is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Mission Experiences team. We build customer and partner-facing interfaces, APIs, and tools for planning and executing missions with Loft. We translate complex workflows and mission data into clear, dependable experiences that help customers and partners collaborate with Loft teams and move their missions forward, establishing a standard for space mission execution at scale.

We’re hiring for one position across multiple locations - you only need to apply once.

About this role:

Must Haves:

• Strong proficiency in Python for backend engineering.
• Comfortable working with Docker for containerization and deployment in scalable environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and implementing APIs, for different use cases and stakeholders.
• Experience in backend architecture, including API design, robust database interactions, and integrations between products, internal tools, and business systems.
• Strong analytical skills to understand complex technical and business processes, identify friction points, and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly, and work effectively across engineering, operations, and business teams.
• Proactive problem-solving mindset, comfortable challenging assumptions constructively and taking ownership of features from design through production operations.

Nice to Haves:

Some of Our Awesome Benefits:

 *Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Loft, we value respectful debate and people who aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions.  We strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t check all the boxes.

Who We Are

Loft: Space Made Simple. 

Founded in 2017, Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit.

We integrate, launch, and operate spacecraft, offering end-to-end missions as a service across Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on-orbit AI, national security missions, and more. Leveraging our existing space infrastructure and an extensive inventory of satellite buses, Loft is reducing years-long integration and launch timelines to months. With more than 30 missions flown, Loft’s flight heritage and proven technologies enable customers to focus on their mission objectives.

With a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.