Role: Backend Engineer
Employment Type: Full Time
Educational Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience: 3-5 years of industry experience in building solid software products.

Role Description:
As part of the Studio 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 and spacecraft manufacturer redefining Earth observation with hyperspectral imaging. The company’s first three commercial hyperspectral satellites—Fireflies—deliver imagery at 5-meter resolution and 135+ spectral bands, providing 50x richer detail than traditional Earth observation systems and unlocking insights across agriculture, climate, energy, environment, and more.

Once fully deployed, Pixxel’s constellation of 18-24 satellites will capture imagery across up to 250 bands in VNIR and SWIR ranges, with a 40 km swath and daily global revisit capability. Pixxel’s most unique strength is its full-stack approach, integrating every layer of the value chain from satellite hardware and manufacturing to AI-powered analytics.

Pixxel’s satellite constellation is complemented by Aurora, its in-house Earth Observation Studio that simplifies satellite imagery analysis and democratises remote sensing for all. Designed to make hyperspectral data more accessible, Aurora by Pixxel combines high-frequency imagery with AI-powered tools to generate actionable insights, even for users without technical backgrounds. The third pillar of Pixxel’s ecosystem is its in-house satellite manufacturing capability. Beyond building its own spacecraft, Pixxel also provides satellite systems and subsystems to other organisations. This dual capacity sets it apart in a sector where most companies focus on either payload design or data operations, but not both.

Pixxel’s team is young but deeply mission-aligned, with a culture rooted in curiosity, speed, and long-term thinking. As the company grows its constellation and expands Aurora, the focus remains on making space-based insights practical, scalable, and genuinely helpful so that the health of the planet becomes measurable and action becomes possible.

Pixxel was the only Indian startup selected for the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles and has been recognised in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Via Satellite’s Top Innovators list.

For more information, see our Careers page or follow Pixxel on LinkedIn and X/Twitter.

Culture

Pixxel is an organization where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day.
Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritise well-being and growth in all aspects of life

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