Mission Control Software Engineer - Backend

Role: Mission Control Software Engineer - Backend

Industry Type: Space Technology

Location: Bengaluru/Ahmedabad (we are open to hiring for this position across both locations)

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