The Role
Design and develop backend systems for robotic applications, creating APIs, debugging, and collaborating with teams to enhance systems and user experience.
Summary Generated by Built In
ANYbotics is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to shaping the future of mobile robotics across multiple industries. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 200+ people and work on cutting-edge robot technology.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our fast-paced software engineering team. Your role will be to design and develop the backend of the next generation of robotic applications for ANYmal. Together with your team and top robotics engineers at ANYbotics. This involves designing and implementing software solutions so that ANYmal can perform ever-more complex jobs.
The APIs you and your team create provide the foundations for collaborations with software and cloud technology partners, enabling deep integrations into our customers' facility management systems and unlocking the opportunity to create holistic robotic inspection solutions.
We constantly come up with new ways to optimize the performance and skills of our robots, allowing customers to gain valuable insights into their facilities and processes as easily and efficiently as possible. With your technical expertise in web technologies, you actively contribute to making our robots smarter, more robust, and more user-friendly.
The Market & Our Technology
ANYbotics transforms the industrial sector by introducing robotics to a wide range of novel applications that so far were beyond reach (see our case studies in Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Railways, Wind Energy, Mining, Construction). Our customers are large asset operators and service providers of industrial plants pioneering robotics technology for inspection and maintenance. Our solution enables autonomous routine inspections and monitoring of large-scale industrial facilities for increased safety and productivity. We develop numerous customized hardware systems, including the entire robotic platform, actuators, sensors, inspection payloads, charging systems, and software to achieve world-class mobility, autonomy, and inspection capabilities, often based on AI. We have proven the technology and the business impact on our customers in long-term pilot projects. We are now scaling the commercialization of our solution(s) and deploying directly into operation at customer facilities worldwide.
About Us
ANYbotics is a leading robotics company specializing in advanced autonomous systems. With a successful Series B financing round recently closed, we are poised for rapid growth and international expansion. Our mission is to revolutionize the robotics industry through cutting-edge technology and innovation. As we embark on this exciting journey, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Backend Engineer to join our team and help us shape the future of robotics.
Your contributions
- Implementing backend changes to enhance our main GUI: Workforce, as well as to enable end-to-end solutions (e.g. inspection workflows)
- Design, extend, and maintain scalable and consistent APIs (for internal and external users)
- Designing and implementing the foundational systems to enable effective web development
- Debugging and testing the applications, in simulation, physically in-house, and in the field with the robot
- Advocating the use of 3rd-party web frameworks and technologies and demonstrating their effectiveness in your own work.
- Evaluating, integrating, and testing solutions from and collaborating with external partners
- Participation in planning, organization, and tracking of personal and team objectives and tasks
- Writing testable code and writing precise and effective software documentation
- Be an example to the company for the feasibility of well-executed remote work
Your profile
- Engineering or science degree with a focus on computer science, or robotics
- You have succeeded in building maintainable APIs which contributed to a seamless user experience and a successful product.
- Excellent at leveraging web frameworks and technologies to build scalable backend systems
- Strong and effective at writing clean and maintainable code in TypeScript and able to work with a broad range of languages (python, C++) and frameworks
- Strong interface-driven thinking, able to design consistent, scalable, and maintainable APIs
- Strong user focus: interested in collaborating with designers, product managers, and frontend developers to understand the customer's needs and challenges
- Strong at communicating and collaborating with team members to contribute to a productive and engaging team environment in a remote setting
- Capable in effectively testing, debugging, monitoring, and improving existing backend systems
- Capable in managing your workload in a remote setting and able to demonstrate the successful execution and completion of past projects
- Capable in staying up to date with developments in web and cloud technologies, frameworks, and practices
- Capable in clearly communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Willing to work on topics outside of the formal area of expertise (e.g. resource constraint systems, sensor data processing)
- Willing to travel ca. 2-3 weeks per year to co-locate with ANYbotics team members and users
Bonus Points
- Experience with web application frameworks like NestJS
- Experience with MQTT
- Experience in integrating APIs with 3rd party systems (e.g. SAP)
- Experience in frontend development
Remote Work Statement
We’re an international robotics company with the A-team spread across the Globe. This role is fully remote within the EU, giving you the flexibility to work from your home country while staying connected to our global team. To be eligible, you’ll need to have the legal right to work in the European Union.
Please note, this is a Fully Remote Job until we have opened an office, after which you will have a hybrid working environment.
We’re an international robotics company with the A-team spread across the Globe. This role gives you the opportunity to be part of growing our EU presence while staying connected to our global team. To be eligible, you’ll need to have the legal right to work in the European Union. Ideally you resided in Barcelona already.
Top Skills
C++
Mqtt
Nestjs
Python
Typescript
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The Company
What We Do
ANYbotics is a Swiss robotics company pioneering the development of autonomous mobile robotics. Our walking robots move beyond conventional, purpose-built environments and solve customer problems in challenging infrastructure so far only accessible to humans. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off from the world-leading robotics labs at ETH Zurich. Join our highly talented and motivated team of more than 100 people and work on cutting-edge robot technology. Our customers include leading international energy, industrial processing, and construction companies. In 2020, ANYbotics raised CHF 20 m in a Series A financing round and won several prizes, including the Swiss Economic Forum 2020 award.
