Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're 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. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re 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 for our downstream applications. As the key member of our dev team, you will develop the backend and work with a small team to build a high-performance, real-time tracking application and ensure end-to-end performance and scalability.

You’ll work closely with a senior engineer to implement secure, scalable backend services. Over time, your work is expected 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 maintain external 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
Maintain compliance with data security and access policies

Your Story:

Must have:

Master’s degree in computer engineering, software engineering or related technical field
1-2 years of experience as Backend dev (Node.js, 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 or Spring Boot is a plus)

Nice to have’s:

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 rhythm. We 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 us. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Catarina Rio | | catarina.afonsorio@beyondgravity.com

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.

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