ROLE
– Own end-to-end delivery of ground software systems, including planning, execution, and release timelines
– Define engineering roadmaps aligned with mission, product, and business priorities
– Provide accurate estimates, timelines, and risk assessments to stakeholders
– Ensure high standards of code quality, reliability, scalability, and system performance
– Drive engineering execution with a strong focus on accountability, predictability, and velocity
– Support program execution, reviews, and stakeholder communication
– Lead and manage a cross-functional team across frontend, backend, DevOps, and infrastructure
– Hire, mentor, and develop engineers across experience levels
– Collaborate with product, mission planning, operations and commercial teams to define product vision and roadmap
– Translate mission and operational requirements into scalable software architectures and features
– Define and drive product and variant strategy for ground systems across different mission/customer needs
– Guide system architecture for Mission planning, Flight dynamics, acquisition planning and Ground segment systems
– Design scalable, reliable systems across backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers
– Lead development of cloud-native systems and On-premise deployments for customer-specific requirements
– Ensure robust DevOps practices including CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and incident response
– Define and drive the AI strategy within engineering workflows and products
– Assess, pilot and institutionalise AI tools to build robust agentic development workflows

REQUIREMENTS
– 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong system design expertise
– 3+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
– Recent hands-on experience in backend development
– Experience building and delivering cloud-based systems
– Strong problem-solving, leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
– Experience in aerospace, scientific computing or optimization systems
– Experience leading teams through scale or organizational change

BENEFITS
– Health insurance coverage
– Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
– Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
– Relocation assistance
– Professional Mental Wellness services
– Employee Stock Options for all hires