Role: Mission Control Software Engineer - Backend
Industry Type: Space Technology
Location: Bengaluru
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role:
We are developing a real-time control and monitoring platform for satellite systems.
As one of the founding engineers of the Mission Control Software team, you will design and build the backend core — a distributed service that streams, stores, and routes data from a network of satellites. The system will start as a single-unit deployment and evolve into a multi-node, high-reliability architecture.
Your work will form the backbone of how missions are operated, scaled, and automated.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services in Java for data ingestion, processing, and control workflows.
- Build and extend gRPC and REST APIs for internal and external clients.
- Develop modular plugins and middleware components for data routing, persistence, and automation.
- Work with PostgreSQL (and possibly other data stores) for structured and time-series data management.
- Collaborate with frontend developers to support real-time dashboards and control interfaces via WebSockets / event streams.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability of backend components through testing, logging, and metrics collection.
- Contribute to containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines using Docker and related tooling.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code with comprehensive test coverage.
Required Skills:
- 4–6 years of hands-on experience developing backend or distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in Java (11+), with a good understanding of concurrency, networking, and modular architectures.
- Experience with backend frameworks such as Spring Boot, Vert.x, or similar.
- Familiarity with gRPC or RESTful API design and integration.
- Solid knowledge of SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL) and schema design.
- Comfort working in Linux environments with Git and Docker.
- Experience with messaging / event streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, or equivalent) or other asynchronous data pipelines.
- Proven ability to design maintainable codebases and write automated tests.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in real-time data systems, satellites, IoT, or telemetry backends.
- Exposure to distributed systems, high-availability deployments, or microservice architectures.
- Working knowledge of Python for scripting and integration.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Interest in systems that integrate software, hardware, and data operations.
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or Electronics & Communication Engineering.
- Equivalent practical experience in backend or distributed systems development will also be considered.
Why Join?
- Senior engineer opportunity — high ownership, direct impact on architecture and design decisions.
- Work on real-time distributed systems that connect space and terrestrial segments.
- Small, technical, mission-driven team with rapid iteration and deep engineering focus.
Core Tech Stack: Java 11+, gRPC, REST, PostgreSQL, Docker, Linux, WebSocket streaming, Git CI/CD