Software Engineer

About the role

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a Software Engineer focused on building clear, thoughtful experiences for customers to understand their accounts. Our team is small, and we are distributed across eastern North America and Europe. You will work on building experiences which make complex information comprehensible and interactive for customers and the business using React and Typescript interacting with Python and Golang backends.

The ideal candidate will be willing to learn or have experience with all these languages, have a collaborative attitude, a customer-driven mindset, and be passionate about solving complex problems in innovative ways. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams, contributing to the development of new features and improving existing systems.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Berlin or Ljubljana office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own:

- Iterating on a newly-built ecosystem of apps to address customer needs

- Identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving technical issues

- Conducting design and code reviews

- Iterating new features based on team feedback

- Developing tools and libraries and writing technical documentation to help other engineering teams integrate with customer telemetry

- Ensuring the accuracy and reliability of code through automated testing

What You Bring:

- 4+ years of experience in software development

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar

- Experience with React and Typescript, and steering the architecture of React apps

- Professional working proficiency in English, the language of the company