Senior Backend Engineer

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Translating mission-critical requirements into technical solutions, balancing complexity, perf

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Leading initiatives to improve scalability, reliability, and performance of backend systems while mentoring team members in best practices. Collaborating with frontend and infrastructure teams to align backend systems with broader product goals and customer needs.

Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run.

We want you as a talented Senior Backend Engineer to help us in our mission by designing and building scalable, resilient systems that power our ambitious goals.

Key Responsibilities In your capacity as a Senior Backend Engineer , your role will be continuously evolving, but day-to-day, your duties will include: Owning the architecture and development of a highly scalable, event-driven backend system, ensuring seamless data flow across microservices.

Building and maintaining APIs using FastAPI, delivering reliable and high-performance interfaces for internal and external stakeholders. Defining, managing, and optimizing Internal Software tools infrastructure with a strong focus on scalability, security, and resilience, preferably using AWS services.

Evolving our AWS serverless architecture by leveraging services such as Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, AWS Cognito, DynamoDB, and Opensearch.