Backend Engineer

Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run. Join us as a Backend Engineer, where you will contribute to developing a robust and scalable internal platform. You will primarily work on our data management platform for our engineering teams. Key Responsibilities In your capacity as a Backend Engineer – Data Management Platform you will: Maintain and evolve a production FastAPI backend serving REST APIs for authentication, authorization, file processing, search, and AI-assisted workflows Contribute to our real-time collaborative editing service built on Hocuspocus, Y.js, and Node.js Design and ship database migrations using SQLAlchemy and Alembic against production MySQL databases Build and improve AI-assisted features using LangChain and our document embedding pipelines Ensure reliability through automated testing with pytest and operational validation Collaborate with frontend engineers and operations teams to understand and meet their needs What we would love to see from you The ideal candida