Senior Full-Stack Web Developer

Role Overview

Senior Full-Stack Web Developer at Loft Orbital Solutions (Orbitworks), based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Company Overview

Orbitworks, building on Loft Orbital's heritage, is the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. The company operates from a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi and aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually. Orbitworks' mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. The company deploys next-generation Earth Observation capabilities through the Altair program.

Role Purpose

Lead the design and implementation of customer-oriented software solutions that enable mission tasking, data access, analytics, and downstream services. Develop highly interactive, high-performance applications and backend services focused on order management, geospatial datalake systems, and AI-enabled downstream processing. Shape the software backbone of a rapidly growing New Space company by building products that manage and exploit large-scale spatiotemporal datasets in real time.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development

• Lead the development of highly interactive, high-performance applications and backend services.
• Design and implement customer-oriented software solutions.
• Build elegant and performant user experiences.

Systems & Infrastructure

• Work at the intersection of space systems, geospatial intelligence, cloud-native infrastructure, and modern web technologies.
• Develop order management systems.
• Build geospatial datalake systems.
• Implement AI-enabled downstream processing capabilities.

Strategic Impact

• Create scalable products that directly support Orbitworks' operational and commercial objectives.
• Contribute to solutions that manage and exploit large-scale spatiotemporal datasets in real time.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep software engineering expertise.
• Strong systems thinking.
• Curiosity for innovation.
• Passion for building elegant and performant user experiences.
• Full-stack web development capabilities.