# Senior Backend Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software Engineer About Leaf Space Leaf Space is a rapidly growing scale-up company and a leading provider of ground segment as-a-service (GSaaS) solutions. Our innovative and proprietary concept is focused on providing satellite and launch vehicle connectivity as-a-service, enabling clients to efficiently manage their assets and fully exploit data. Our GSaaS solutions have been recognized by the market for their efficiency, security, and effectiveness in supporting different applications, from remote sensing to IoT communications. JOB OVERVIEW We're building a satellite-based mesh network that builds on top of our Leaf Line service, and we need a Software Engineer to design and build the software at its core - the ground-segment services, protocol implementations, and network layers that move data between the mesh nodes. You'll take ownership of complex software components end to end, contribute to technical decisions, and help drive engineering quality across the team. This is a hands-on senior role for someone who is as comfortable in protocol details and network internals as in system design. RESPONSIBILITIES Design, build and maintain core software components fo

- **Id**: 708441
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leaf-senior-backend-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Lomazzo, Italy
- **Countries**: IT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-04T10:46:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:44:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 100
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4402
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 695558
- **Name**: Leaf Space
- **Domain**: leaf.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leaf-6>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Teamtailor

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 58
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0.7
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 44000
- **Max usd**: 89000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 31

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 99

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T04:11:48Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.224
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 99
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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