About the Role
Design and ship systems that automate satellite operations, process vast geospatial datasets, and support real-world missions across defence, climate, and commercial domains. This role offers the opportunity to demonstrate insight, domain knowledge, technical expertise, and collaboration skills by working with a multidisciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Work with the team to maintain and consistently extend and update API design and implementations.
- Ensure accuracy and ease of use of visual web interfaces by customers.
- Assist in the design, planning, and implementation of new systems and platform features.
- Advise and mentor other developers and team members.
- Liaise with and mentor internal and external research partners to enhance geospatial technologies.
- Collaborate in review and remediation of features to improve user experience and clarity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience developing and maintaining scalable API-based web applications.
- Experience leading teams of professionals with a mix of experience and domain backgrounds.
- Deep experience with at least one statically typed programming language.
- Robust knowledge of web application design patterns and their use.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Passion for the new space industry.
- Curious and creative.
- Enjoys problem solving.
- Enjoys working in multidisciplinary fields.
- Organized and able to lead.
- A portfolio of prior works is preferred.
- Qualifications in software, physics, mathematics, engineering, geography or other relevant fields may be an advantage.
Skills
- Statically typed programming languages
- Web application design patterns
- Communication skills (written and verbal)
- Go programming language (preferred)
- Design patterns in data processing and management pipelines (preferred)
- Geospatial programming with tools like GDAL and OGC Web APIs (preferred)
- Server side rendering techniques for content servicing (preferred)
Location
- Sydney
- Darwin
- Canberra
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6+ years
About the Company
- Arlula is a fast-growing space technology startup building software infrastructure for the Earth Observation (EO) sector.
- Thousands of customers use Arlula to manage satellite operations and build apps to monitor the planet from space.
- The company is passionate about creating new commercial opportunities in the evolving commercial space industry.
- Arlula works with international space agencies like NASA and ESA, and commercial satellite operators such as Vantor and Planet.
- Customers use Arlula's solutions for constellation management and optimization, spatial data management, internal cataloguing, and derivation and analysis for agricultural and bushfire monitoring, insurance assessment, and journalism.
