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# Backend Engineer - Oort

- **Company:** Loft Orbital Solutions
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Databases, Continuous Integration, Django Web Framework, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Cypress (Programming Language), Backend, Pytest, Containerization, Kubernetes, Playwright, Graphql, React Testing Library, Api Design, Docker
- **Published:** July 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=974d3544433fd6ca

## About the Role

* Demonstrated proficiency in Python for backend engineering.
 * Practical experience using Docker for containerization and deployment in scalable environments.
 * Experience in backend architecture, encompassing API design and robust database interactions.
 * You have hands-on experience building, operating, or integrating technologies for space missions and a passion for making complex, multi-team technical endeavors more efficient and standardized.
 * You thrive on dissecting intricate business and technical processes, mapping them end-to-end-highlighting friction points and opportunities for unique solutions.
 * You excel in team environments, communicate complex ideas with clarity, and advocate for seamless collaboration between engineering, operations, and business functions.
 * You are a proactive problem solver and a respectful challenger of assumptions, comfortable owning features from design through production operations.
 * Fluency in English., * 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 modern cloud infrastructure platforms (e.g., GCP/AWS, Kubernetes).
 * Familiarity with testing tools across the stack (e.g., PyTest, Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright/Cypress) and strong CI/CD practices.

## Description

* Build, and operate features across backend services that collect, manage, and surface critical infrastructure data for the full Loft mission lifecycle.
 * Design and implement APIs and integrations that connect tooling and data across teams and systems.
 * Partner with program management, satellite engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to analyze and understand mission design, program, and business processes-and translate them into intuitive, reliable software.
 * Apply a product mindset across the stack: seek user feedback, identify friction in both backend workflows and UI/UX, and deliver solutions that meaningfully reduce complexity for the people and teams building and operating space infrastructure.


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