Backend Engineer (all genders)

Backend Engineer (all genders)

Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich Switzerland Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. Were a unique blend of agility speed and innovation fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals spread across 13 locations in six countries is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. Were not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry were helping to improve life on earth.

Your Crew

This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on pioneering space projects:

Be a founding member of the SaaS Journey at Beyond Gravity as you help us build its first MVP and lay foundations forour downstream applications. As the key member of our dev team you will own the backend and work with a smallteam to build a high-performance real-time tracking application and ensure end-to-end performance and work closely with a senior engineer to implement secure scalable backend services. Over time your work isexpected to extend beyond this project as we aim to build an entirely new software family.

Your Mission

• Develop and maintain the backend for Space Situational Awareness data processing with real-time ingestion
• Implement secure APIs for orbital analysis and technical payload information as you Integrate design and maintainexternal data sources
• Ensure BE services are testable modular and scalable as you collaborate with other engineers to expose insights
• Implement logging monitoring and error handling as you conduct performance tuning and optimization
• Participate in architecture design and documentation and agile ceremonies to drive technical excellence
• Support on-premises deployment and configuration when needed
• Maintain compliance with data security and access policies

Your Story:

Must have:

• Masters degree in computer engineering software engineering or related technical field
• 2 years of experience as Backend dev ( Python/FastAPI or Rust)
• Acquired knowledge and proven experience with:
  • API security authentication (Azure AD or Keycloak is a plus)
  • containerized environments (Docker Docker Compose)
  • RESTful API design and integration (Kafka and Spring Boot)
• Were looking for someone who is curious adaptable detail-oriented analytical proactive and team-oriented.

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with orbital mechanics and geospatial data
• Experience with LLM APIs or local models
• Exposure to On-Prem or air-gapped software dev
• Startup mindset in line with a constant work-in-progress environment with rapid changes and high pace

Why Beyond Gravity

You will be a part of an engaged team with the ambition to innovate space!
You will work in a growing high-tech company with career opportunities within the location or internationally.
In Lisbon we have a down-to-earth culture experienced and competent employees and a versatile management team.
We offer a hybrid work situation and flexible hours to match your just moved to our brand-new office in Entrecampos (Lisbon)
We have a canteen (with free breakfast and snacks) free parking spots in our garage and great access to our office either by car or public transports.
We offer a competitive salary meal allowance health insurance and much more.

Are you ready for lift-off

Our core values - Passionate Together and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

For questions regarding the recruitment process please contact: Catarina

Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race color religion sex gender national origin disability protected veteran status or any other legally protected categories.

Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.