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Building on Loft Orbital’s heritage, Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50,000-square-foot facility in Abu Dhabi.\nAs Orbitworks deploys next-generation Earth Observation capabilities through the Altair program, we are seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Web Developer to lead the design and implementation of customer-oriented software solutions that enable mission tasking, data access, analytics, and downstream services.\nIn this role, you will lead the development of highly interactive, high-performance applications and backend services focused on order management, geospatial datalake systems, and AI-enabled downstream processing. 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