Senior Backend Software Engineer — IoT Platform

About the role

Ready to make connectivity from space universally accessible, secure and actionable? Then you’ve come to the right place!

E-Space is bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services. We are building a highly-advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) space system that will fundamentally change the design, economics, manufacturing and service delivery associated with traditional satellite and terrestrial IoT systems.

We’re intentional, we’re unapologetically curious and we’re 100% committed to innovate space-based communications and deliver actionable intelligence that will expand global economies, protect space and our planet and enhance our overall quality of life.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build and maintain the backend platform powering our connected-device products. You will work across cloud services, APIs, data pipelines, fleet management, and real-time device communications.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys building production systems, solving practical problems, and working closely with embedded, hardware, frontend, and product teams.

What you will do: Backend Development

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Build, maintain, and improve Python/FastAPI backend services, REST APIs, and WebSocket endpoints.

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Develop features for device provisioning, fleet management, telemetry, events, device status, firmware management, and OTA updates.

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Design and maintain PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, indexes, queries, and data-retention strategies.

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Build and improve data-ingestion services using AWS IoT Core, MQTT, Lambda, RDS, Redis, and S3.

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Work with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling to maintain cloud infrastructure.

Quality and Reliability

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Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests alongside feature development.

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Investigate and resolve production issues across APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and device integrations.

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Improve the reliability of telemetry ingestion through appropriate retries, idempotency, monitoring, and error handling.

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Participate in code reviews and contribute to clear, maintainable engineering practices.

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Help improve CI/CD, logging, metrics, and operational documentation.

Collaboration

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Work closely with embedded, hardware, frontend, and product teams to deliver end-to-end features.

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Participate in technical design discussions and communicate implementation tradeoffs clearly.

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Share knowledge and help establish sensible backend patterns as the team and platform grow.

What we are looking for: Required

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5+ years of backend software development experience in production systems.