Backend Engineer

Role: Backend Engineer

Employment Type: Full Time

Educational Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience: 2-4 years of industry experience in building solid software products.

Role Description:
As part of the Platform team, you will be contributing to advancing and managing Pixxel’s in-house analytics platform. You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. Beyond technical expertise, your role will involve shaping products, continuous learning, and upholding best practices. Your experience and contributions will be instrumental in driving process improvements and fostering collaboration across the organization.

Responsibilities & Duties: 

• Deliver high-quality code considering design patterns, security, performance, and optimizations inclusive of the necessary unit and integration tests.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Be a full owner: shape the foundation of the product and business that you work on.
• Actively learn new languages, techniques, and methodologies.
• Contribute actively to code reviews and design reviews.
• Follow software development and Cloud-native application best practices.
• Utilize engineering practices like pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, and Refactoring techniques.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of tech trends, experimenting with, and learning new technologies.
• Having a data-driven approach - know how to measure and prove the impact and efficacy of your optimizations.
• Utilize Kubernetes for packaging microservices into containers and orchestrating their deployment.
• Implement automated scaling and performance supervision for the infrastructure and applications, utilizing tools such as Mimir and Grafana or equivalent alternatives.

Desirable Skills & Certifications:

• Experience with programming languages like Go/Java/Python.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make quick decisions based on business needs.
• Docker and Kubernetes expertise.
• Familiarity with cloud services preferably AWS.
• Knowledge and experience in microservices architecture, REST APIs, and relational databases.
• Knowledge of Agile development practices preferred.

Would be great if you have

• Experience with the development of geospatially based interfaces, including the use of GeoJSON, MapBox, etc.
• Experience with Cloud services like Azure/AWS/GCP.
• Experience in dockerizing applications and deploying them on Kubernetes.
• Engineering experience in early-stage/growth-stage startups.

Candidate Acumen:
A Backend Engineer should possess strong expertise in authentication protocols, identity management systems, security best practices, and scalable backend development to ensure secure, efficient, and compliant user authentication and access control.

Benefits:

• Health insurance coverage
• Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
• Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
• Relocation assistance
• Professional Mental Wellness services
• Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
• Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases.

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today. 

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.
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