Backend Systems Engineer – Mission Software & Cloud Connectivity

We're Hiring: Backend Systems Engineer – Mission Software & Cloud Connectivity

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Perception & Autonomy

At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation autonomy stack powering aircraft for complex missions. Our team is kicking off a new chapter — developing the full flight-control, obstacle-avoidance, GNSS-denied navigation, and swarm-coordination layers that will define LAT’s autonomy architecture.

We’re hiring a Backend Systems Engineer to build the high-performance backend that powers LAT’s mission-control stack.

What you’ll do

• Design and develop backend services for mission planning, swarm management, telemetry ingestion, and real-time operator tools.

• Optimize real-time video streaming pipelines — transcoding, adaptive bitrate, low-latency transport, failover, and bandwidth efficiency.

• Build and maintain robust APIs and data services for mission software, ensuring high throughput and low-latency performance.

• Implement communication protocols for drone ↔ ground ↔ cloud data exchange; handle unreliable links, reconnect logic, and packet prioritization.

• Architect scalable backend infrastructure to support multi-drone missions, swarm telemetry aggregation, and perception outputs.

• Integrate mission software with cloud services for logging, long-term storage, analytics, and real-time monitoring.

• Ensure backend reliability through observability tooling, metrics, tracing, and automatic recovery mechanisms.

What we're looking for

• Strong experience building backend systems using Node.js, Python, Go, or similar languages.

• Deep understanding of real-time communication, streaming protocols (WebRTC, RTSP, RTP, SRT, gRPC, WebSockets), or low-latency data transport.

• Experience designing scalable REST or event-driven architectures and distributed systems.

• Familiarity with AWS and deploying production-grade backend services.

• Strong knowledge of databases, caching, message queues, and optimizing high-throughput systems.

• Ability to diagnose complex backend issues using logs, traces, profilers, and observability tools.

Why LAT?

• Core-team role building the autonomy brain of India’s most ambitious aerospace startup.

• Ownership, speed, and the opportunity to define a new class of systems from scratch.