Digantara is building the world’s first maps for space, Space-Mission Assurance Platform™ (Space-MAP™). Space-MAP™ represents a revolutionary end-to-end infrastructure for sustainable space operations, offering a comprehensive space situational awareness (SSA) solution that simplifies and strengthens satellite operations in the face of the rapidly expanding commercialization of space.

Space-MAP™ features powerful APIs for SSA analytics powered by vast amounts of data generated by complex astrodynamics algorithms.

We are seeking a motivated Backend Intern to join our dynamic team. As a Backend Intern, you will have the opportunity to assist in designing, developing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our web platform. Your primary focus will be to support the creation of efficient, scalable, and secure back-end systems, help manage databases, and work with big data that powers our platform. You will collaborate closely with front-end developers, astrodynamics engineers, and other team members to assist in the seamless integration between the front-end and back-end components, gaining valuable hands-on experience in the process.

Why Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas and skills make a real difference to the entire space realm.

• Push the boundaries with hands-on experience, greater responsibilities, and rapid career advancement.

• Competitive incentives, galvanizing workspace, blazing team—pretty much everything you have heard about a startup.

Responsibilities:

• Build the space situational awareness platform with clean, modular, and well-documented code that complies with best practices and coding standards.

• Design and implement RESTful APIs to facilitate seamless integration with various client applications and calculation server.

• Troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure smooth functionality across different systems.

• Stay up to date with the latest backend development trends, tools, and techniques.

• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and suggestions for improvement.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and workflows.

Ideal skills:

• We are looking for an enthusiastic intern eager to learn and contribute to building scalable APIs using Nest.js

• A strong interest in developing a deep understanding of databases, particularly PostgreSQL, will be beneficial

Required Qualifications:

• Preferably in the final year of college (B.Tech/B.E.) or recently graduated with a BCA. degree in Computer Science and has demonstrable development—experience with more than one programming language.

• Basic understanding of implementing CRUD operations for APIs is required.

• Experience with databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.

• Ability to work independently as well as in small teams

• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

• Basic knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative development workflows.

• Proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming, MVC and messaging queue.

General Requirements:

• Ability to work in a mission-focused, operational environment.

• Ability to think critically and make independent decisions.

• Interpersonal skills to enable working in a diverse and dynamic team.

• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.

• Verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills.

• Travel occasionally as necessary.