Fullstack Developer

About Aerospacelab

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2025, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 350 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Role overview

As a satellite manufacturer and operator, Aerospacelabdevelops a range of software products that support the lifecycle of satellitesmissions: operation of in-orbit satellites, planning of ongoing and futuremissions, collection and processing of data, intelligence extraction … you nameit ! To support those activities, we are looking for passionate and talenteddeveloper with a user-centric mindset.

As a fullstack developer, you will join an agile developmentsquad that works on one of the cutting-edge solutions that compose our“Software-as-a-Service” ecosystem. Within this team, you will contribute to thedesign, implementation and testing of web-based softwarecomponents.

At Aerospacelab, our motto iswork hard, play hard.With strive to innovate, in a fun and inclusive work environment. We work inshort cycles – no waiting for years before seeing codego live&get valuable feedback.Expect an exciting job, where you will learnconstantly and contribute to building state-of-the-art software, that will playa crucial role in earth observation missions.

Our software missions

• Communicate with and control in-orbit satellites.
• Plan ongoing and future satellite missions (e.g. plan when/where to acquire images).
• Collect and process data from instruments (e.g. calibrate images).
• Extract information from collected data (e.g. compute land cover from images).

Ourtech stack

• Backend– Python: FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy.
• Backend– Java: Quarkus, Hibernate.
• Frontend:Nuxt.js (Vue.js), TailwindCSS.
• Database:PostgreSQL, S3.
• CI/CD:Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.

Key activities

• Design,develop and test software products.
• Writetechnical documentation & test procedures.
• Mentorjunior colleagues.
• Performcode review.
• Participatein the architecture design.
• Configure CI/CD pipeline.

Must have

• Bachelor,Master or PhD’s degree in computer engineering or equivalent.
• Professionalknowledge in Java and/or Python.
• Professionalknowledge of database systems, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarwith code versioning tools, such as Git and GitHub.
• Proficientin English.
• Beeligible to work from one of our office locations (Belgium / Switzerland /France).

Nice to have

• Workexperience with (part of) our technology stack.
• Workexperience in frontend design and development.
• Workexperience in the Space sector.
• Familiarwith image processing.