Junior Frontend Engineer (all genders)
�� Challenge the Impossible
About Beyond Gravity
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.
Your Crew
This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on pioneering space projects:
Be a founding member of the SaaS Journey at Beyond Gravity as you help us build its first MVP and lay foundations for our downstream applications. As the key member of our dev team, you will support the frontend and work with a small team to build a high-performance, real-time tracking application and ensure end-to-end performance and scalability.
Over time, your work is expected to extend beyond this project as we aim to build an entirely new software family.
Your Mission
- Develop interactive satellite tracking UI and optimize rendering performance of real-time data and prompt input flows and feedback mechanisms
- Integrate orbital or map-based visualizations
- Build dashboards for telemetry, mission logs, and other technical data outputs
- Collaborate with backend and data teams to visualize complex patterns
- Ensure the frontend code is modular, testable, and maintainable
- Participate in design reviews and user testing as you maintain UI consistency and accessibility standards
- Optimize performance for large-scale data rendering, work with BE team to consume APIs for real-time flow
Your Story:
Must have:
- Master’s degree in computer engineering, software engineering or related technical field
- 1-2 years of experience as Frontend dev (Angular/React, + GraphQL/PostgreSQL)
- Acquired knowledge and proven experience with:
- UI/UX implementation for data-heavy applications and high-performance maps and visualization
- 3D visualization libraries
- real-time data handling (SSE or webSockets)
- We’re looking for someone who is creative, user-centric, precise, collaborative and resilient.
Nice to have’s:
- Familiarity with geospatial data (CesiumJs, Mapbox)
- Familiarity with prompt-based AI interfaces or LLM UX
- Startup mindset in line with a constant work-in-progress environment with rapid changes
Why Beyond Gravity?
You will be a part of an engaged team with the ambition to innovate space!
You will work in a growing high-tech company with career opportunities within the location or internationally.
In Lisbon we have a down-to-earth culture, experienced and competent employees and a versatile management team.We offer a hybrid work situation and flexible hours to match your rhythm. We just moved to our brand-new office in Entrecampos (Lisbon)
We have a canteen (with free breakfast and snacks), free parking spots in our garage and great access to our office either by car or public transports.
We offer a competitive salary, meal allowance, health insurance and much more
��Are you ready for lift-off?
Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.
For questions regarding the position, please contact: Frank Hugi | | frank.hugi@beyondgravity.com
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Catarina Rio | | catarina.afonsorio@beyondgravity.com
Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.
Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.