Senior Backend Engineer

About Seoul Robotics

Seoul Robotics is an autonomous driving company with a mission to solve first and last-mile logistics challenges, backed by a team of industry experts from Google, Coupang, Hyudai Motor Company, GM and Continental.

This position offers a great opportunity to advance your professional career in the cutting-edge autonomous robotics industry, where AI/ML is embedded at the core of the product.

With members from over 10 different countries, you have the chance to work in a unique international environment in the heart of Seoul, where English is our primary language.

Our global clients provide opportunities to work overseas in various areas in Asia and the US.

[Our Story and Technology]

- Powering the Future of Autonomy with LV5 CTRL TWR (YouTube LINK)

- Media (Chosun Biz  LINK, PR NewswireLINK)

[Our Principles]

•   Add Value
•   Earn Trust
•   Own Your Job
•   Keep Growing
•   Respect Diversity

Mission of the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team dedicated to autonomous driving technology. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Go service development, a good understanding of RESTful API design and experience building fault-tolerant, real-time systems. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and expanding the backend responsible for streaming live fleet state to operators and relaying commands to the autonomy stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement services in Go, following a domain-driven design.
• Build and maintain event pipelines between the operator-facing layer and autonomy stack.
• Define and extend RESTful API contracts that teams can build against with confidence.
• Deliver real-time state to operators over event-driven and streaming connections, with a focus on robustness and redundancy.
• Maintain and extend operator-facing data in PostgreSQL through versioned migrations.
• Maintain and extend service instrumentation so system behavior stays observable as new features land.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of work experience in backend software engineering, or a related field.
• Experience building resilient services (e.g. graceful degradation and recovery).
• Solid experience with Go or similar backend programming languages and concurrent high-traffic systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful APIs, preferably using a Go framework (e.g. Fiber, Gin).
• Comfortable working with relational databases, ORM, query optimization and schema migrations (e.g. Postgres, GORM).
• Comfortable working with message-driven architectures and event pipelines (e.g. Kafka).
• Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
• Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to work cross-functionally with developers, QA, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience working with real-time or streaming systems (e.g. WebSockets or similar).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
• Familiarity with TypeScript and ability to support the frontend team.

Recruitment Process

Application Review - Hiring Manager Review - Phone Screening - Assignment - Tech Interviews - CEO Screening - Reference Check - Offer    

(Please be aware that the recruitment processes & schedules may be changed depending on the job and/or other circumstances)

Benefits

▷ Diversity - International team (10+ nationalities)

▷ Flexible work hours 

▷ Hybrid work 

▷ 10 days of paid sick leave

▷ Daily meal support

▷ No dress code

▷ Premium health check (Once a year)

▷ Snacks and premium coffee

Seoul Robotics stands for an open and respectful corporate culture because we believe diversity helps us to find new perspectives.

Seoul Robotics ensures that all our members have equal opportunities - regardless of age, ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and belief, sexual orientation, and social background. We always ensure diversity right from the recruitment stage and therefore make hiring decisions based on a candidate’s actual competencies, qualifications, and business needs at the point of the time.

Please feel free to contact us via our talent acquisition team e-mail if you have any questions.

[Seoul Robotics Talent Acquisition e-mail: [email protected]]