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Job Description
The role involves maintaining and extending Planet's satellite tasking systems, enabling customers to request and receive satellite imagery data through reliable APIs and internal integrations, supporting the company's mission to provide high-quality Earth observation data.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and extend Planet's satellite tasking systems that interface with customers and internal systems
- Develop and improve APIs and web interfaces for customer tasking and data retrieval
- Integrate diverse internal systems such as mission control, accounting, imaging processing, and quality control
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to create user-centered products
- Drive the full lifecycle of system initiatives from design to release and maintenance
- Improve system architecture, development processes, and system design
Requirements
- Bachelor's or equivalent undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Geographic Information Systems, or similar.
- 10 years of relevant experience in system architecture, technical debt strategy, reviewing complex implementations, and serving as the technical leader across full-stack systems.
- Experience in core domain technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, or Python, Django, with continuous proficiency in delivering complex, high-quality system features.
- Experience in making, documenting, and communicating architectural decisions across a broad technical domain.
- Ability to cultivate cross-functional synergy by fostering transparency across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
- Ability to drive technical discovery under high ambiguity, translating high-level stakeholder needs into actionable requirements and documentation.
- Working proficiency in English, the language of the company.
- Experience in maintaining and extending tasking systems that bridge customers and internal systems, including external API web interfaces for tasking and data reception, and internal integration with mission control, accounting, imaging processing, and quality control systems.
Benefits & Perks
Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off
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