Senior Software Engineer – Backend

Job Description

As our next Senior Backend Engineer you will focus on the design, development, and operation of the server-side systems that power our cutting-edge robotics delivery platform. This role involves building robust, scalable microservices and integrations crucial for fleet operations, process integrations, and data processing in a cloud-native environment. You will play a key part in translating complex business requirements into reliable and efficient backend solutions.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and implement backend services for integrating RIVR's platform with our customers’ systems, to provide delightful delivery experiences.
• Develop and enhance the backend infrastructure for our robot operations platform.
• Develop backend components to aggregate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), providing insights into platform performance and business value.
• Contribute to the overall architecture, reliability, and scalability of our backend systems within a containerized microservices context.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, robotics, and infrastructure engineers to deliver end-to-end features

What you must have

• Approximately 5 years of professional experience designing, building, deploying, and operating backend systems in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) context. You have production experience with:

• Strong experience with Typescript, Java, C++ and/or Python

• Service decomposition.

• API design.

• Different interaction patterns (e.g. RPC, publish/subscribe, event-driven).

• At least two database technologies

• Trading off consistency for availability/performance.

• Proven experience (5+ major services) with at least one major cloud provider (AWS strongly preferred).

• Demonstrable experience in at least one of the following areas:

• Integrating with complex third-party APIs and building reliable, distributed workflows (e.g., using task queues, state machines).

• Building event-driven applications and/or scalable data processing pipelines (e.g., using Kafka, message queues, serverless functions).

• A business-oriented mindset, with a focus on leveraging technology to solve concrete problems and deliver value.

• A strong sense of ownership, comfortable venturing beyond immediate expertise to understand and solve problems effectively.

• The ability to earn trust by providing and receiving candid, constructive feedback.

• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability of our production systems.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and drive mutual understanding across teams with diverse technical backgrounds.

Get some bonus points

• Familiarity configuring and operating CI/CD pipelines.

• Background in robotics, IoT, fleet management, or real-time data streaming systems.

• Strong familiarity with observability such as OTLP, Grafana, prometheus, etc preferably in the context of devices with intermittent connectivity