Backend Engineer

Job Description

As a member of the Data Production Department, your role will involve contributing to the development and operation of the spacecraft control subsystem for the "StriX" series of small SAR satellites. This subsystem is responsible for operating our satellite constellation.

This subsystem has three main roles:

• Creating operation plans for our satellites
• Generating commands for them
• Calculating specific information about their orbits

As we are developing this system in-house, we will also be responsible for operating it and adding new functions in the future. This position aims to introduce/update quality assurance activities to the system.

The spacecraft control subsystem is crucial for our daily satellite operations, and you will be involved in its development and maintenance.

You will also be involved in developing and maintaining the subsystem at the core of our business. The subsystem interacts with our data platform, which is used for the frontend to customers, and the data processing subsystem that generates SAR products.

We plan to rapidly expand our satellite constellation and require more stable satellite operation with less personal effort. You can showcase your skills and grow by achieving these requirements.

Job Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience with system development on GCP or AWS
• Experience of development with more than 3 members
• Experience in development with Go for 3 years
• Experience with building gRPC or RESTful API backend workloads in Go in the context of a microservice based architecture
• Has strong expertise with concurrency patterns in Go
• Has a strong grasp over various kinds of software architecture patterns in Go (Such as Clean architecture, etc)
• Able to commute to our Tokyo head office

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in the space domain (ground system development is the best)
• Experience developing with Python (building apps with Django and Celery is preferred)
• Worked as a leader or sub-leader in system developments
• Experience introducing quality assurance (CI/CD, integration tests, system tests) to projects