What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Enterprise Software Engineer position at Onward Robotics?
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Description
Join Our Team
At Onward Robotics, we are a bold, gritty, and purposeful team with an ambitious mission to revolutionize fulfillment. Our team is driven by a client-first mentality: we aim to solve hard problems and fuel our clients’ growth with innovation. We are seeking talented individuals who will have a huge impact on both our business and our team. Join us on our mission as we move fast, think big, and have fun!
About Us
Onward Robotics delivers innovative automation technology that coordinates humans and robots as a cohesive system to revolutionize fulfillment. Our Meet Me solution combines proprietary software with person-to-goods mobile robots to increase efficiency in warehousing, distribution, and e-commerce operations. Onward Robotics provides the boost in productivity, flexibility, and speed that companies need to remain competitive and grow. Learn more at onwardrobotics.com.
Job Purpose
As a Senior Enterprise Software Engineer, you will collaborate with system engineers, software architects, and robotic engineers on requirements and development for the control, configuration, monitoring and securing of Onward Robotics platforms.
As a core team member, you will also work within a team of software engineers on the design, development and maintenance of the software and services that manage and control our fleet of robots.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain the base frameworks, REST APIs, and application logic for the management, configuration and tasking of robot fleets
- Develop data model and database creation and maintenance process and procedures
- Develop and maintain both front-end and back-end components for a mobile application and a management hub web platform
- Work with other software teams to ensure interfaces are well defined and services are interoperable
- Develop code in Python, SQL and C
- Design and build extremely robust software delivery mechanisms
Typical Day:
- Collaborate with system engineers, roboticists, and software architects to define technical requirements and solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain REST APIs, data models, and backend frameworks supporting robot fleet management.
- Write clean, efficient code in Python, SQL, C , and TypeScript/React.
- Build and enhance both front-end and back-end components for web and mobile platforms.
- Work with other software teams to ensure seamless integration and interoperability of services.
- Participate in code reviews and testing to maintain high software quality standards.
- Implement secure, scalable, and reliable software delivery and deployment processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in distributed systems.
- Contribute to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and cross-functional design discussions.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
- Large scale distributed system development
- Development of tasking based on requirements
- Python
- Typescript/React
Minimum Experience Requirements:
- 5 years of experience designing and implementing software
- Experience working with large-scale distributed software systems
- Fluent in one or more object-oriented programming languages (python, java, C , etc.)
- Experience with React
- Experience with FastAPI or other REST framework
- Experience with OAuth and API Authentication
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a startup environment
Preferred Experience Requirements:
- Experience with Unix / Linux
- Experience with containerization, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with software configuration management systems (git, svn, etc.)
- Experience with various communication protocols (HTTPS, MQTT, AMQP)
- Experience with commercial software deployment and support
Minimum Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
