Senior Full-Stack Engineer

🕒 October 22, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Loft Orbital

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

🚀 Aerospace

🏛️ Government

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Aerospace • Government • Artificial Intelligence

Loft Orbital is a company that builds space infrastructure, allowing various entities such as companies, governments, and institutions to utilize the benefits of space. They specialize in integrating, testing, deploying, and operating payloads for space missions. Loft Orbital offers solutions for physical, virtual, and on-demand missions, working with technological giants like Microsoft to democratize access to space. The company also contributes to national defense space missions for US government customers and has been involved in innovative projects such as testing AI algorithms in space and supporting quantum communications satellite missions.

📋 Description

• Build, and operate end‑to‑end features across backend services and web frontends 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—then bring them to life with performant, accessible user interfaces. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • Experience with modern frontend development, including component‑driven development and state management. • Experience building secure, accessible, and performant web applications, with attention to UX and reliability. • 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**.