Backend Software Developer (Payload Planner)

GHGSat offers greenhouse gas detection, measurement, and monitoring services to industrial and government customers around the world. We use our own satellites and aircraft sensors, combined with third-party data, to help industrial emitters better understand, control, and reduce their emissions. GHGSat’s capability is unique: we provide high-resolution, local measurements of atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide concentration from space. This further enables to detect greenhouse gas emitters and to visualize and quantify their emissions. Reporting to the Mission Platform lead, GHGSat is looking for an innovative and experienced Backend Developer for our Payload Planner software. As part of a cross-functional team deployed around Agile Scrum, you will be designing, developing, and supporting satellite planning and tasking software. Your responsibilities will include software development, testing, analyzing data, and contributing to the design and implementation of the software. Overall, you have an excellent knowledge of data structures, databases, streaming pipelines and a strong motivation in tackling the important environmental issues that our planet faces today. Responsibilities Develop tools and applications to improve the workflow of satellite planning and tasking activities Evaluate, deploy, develop, integrate, test and maintain databases, data transformation frameworks and APIs Optimize data structures, schema, queries for most frequent usage Develop, test, integrate, and deploy backend stack Design System Architecture collectively with the team, revisit regularly Maintain and ensure High Availability of GHGSat data platform