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.
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What We Do
Imagine a world where flying is as easy as taking a bus. A world where air travel isn't just for the major cities, but for everyone, everywhere. No more congested hubs, no more wasted hours in security lines—just seamless, affordable, on-demand flights connecting thousands of destinations that the world has ignored for too long. We are building the future of mass aviation: a network of high-frequency, low-cost, 8 seater, STOL (short take-off and landing), medium-haul aircraft that make every city, every town, and every community accessible—without compromise. Powered by next-generation aircraft, designed ground-up for efficiency, built for affordability, and future-proofed for autonomy, we are aiming to rewrite the rules of flight. Our aircraft will take off and land in compact "air-stops" no bigger than a parking lot—no baggage belts, no security bottlenecks—eliminating the need for complex, expensive airport infrastructure that regional air travel simply doesn't require. No more waiting. No more detours. No more being forced to drive when you should be able to fly. This isn't the impractical supersonic future of aviation as you are made to believe. This is the real future of aviation that our communities need. --------- We are hiring We’re building a next-gen aerospace company — from scratch. Our Aircraft team is leading the development of our 8-seater hybrid-electric aircraft, spanning design, prototyping, systems integration, testing, and everything in between. Our GTE team is focused on building a world-class gas turbine engine. We're especially looking for folks with experience in turbines, rotors, control systems, or anything close. If you want to build something ambitious and enduring, write to us: [email protected] (for Aircraft) [email protected] (for GTE)
