Senior Staff Backend Engineer

About The Role:

Our software team is growing and we are looking for a talented technical lead to join our growing, agile, world-class team. Agility Robotics is building its robot fleet management software and is looking for a tech lead for the software services (back end) team. This team is developing a greenfield application for deploying and managing a fleet of humanoid robots for commercial applications. We are building out our cloud based Application - Arc - in the areas of robot fleet management, remote robot software update, robot operations, robot data collection and metrics and other key areas. 

About The Work:

• Develop applications that run in the cloud and on prem
• Provide technical leadership for a team of backend software engineers
• Own the development of new applications and features
• Work cross-functionally with product, UXD, front end, robot hardware and software and customer solutions teams
• Build and maintain applications throughout the software lifecycle, including providing on-call support
• Gather and analyze product requirements, turning them into technical solutions
• Write design docs, POCs and code and collaborate with technical peers.
• This is a technical leadership role in a small team in a startup environment and requires both leadership and hands-on software development work.

About You:

• BS or MS in computer science or related field or equivalent industry experience
• At least 10 years of experience in a software engineer or related role
• Expertise in developing on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience starting with basic or minimal requirements and working with them towards end-to-end solutions
• Leads projects involving multiple teams
• Excited about building in greenfield environment
• Experience as a team or tech lead
• Experience building robust, highly available, high reliability systems
• Experience working in fast paced environments sometimes with changing priorities
• Strong knowledge of Java and Python (bonus points for C++)
• Strong knowledge of Databases and Database design (SQL and NoSQL)
• Wide breadth of knowledge in writing services and using frameworks, technologies and patterns such as Java/Spring Boot, REST, gRPC, dependency injection, unit testing, mocks etc.
• Experience championing and leading the usage of best practices (e.g. writing design docs, unit tests) by writing prototypes, POCs and  sample code and setting standards and examples for other engineers to follow

Bonus Points:

• Experience in a startup or small company environment
• Experience with Hybrid deployments (On Prem + Cloud)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience in greenfield application development
• Experience with MQTT, Temporal, Postman, LaunchDarkly
• Experience with Robotics, IoT, or similar distributed device environments

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024