Senior Back End Engineer

The role

You will design and implement Go services and build event pipelines between the operator-facing layer and autonomy stack. You will maintain backend systems responsible for streaming live fleet state to operators and relaying commands to the autonomy stack.

What you will do

• 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.
• Deliver real-time state to operators over event-driven and streaming connections.
• Maintain and extend operator-facing data in PostgreSQL through versioned migrations.
• Maintain and extend service instrumentation.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building backend services, with production Go experience.
• Experience delivering real-time state to clients over WebSockets, SSE, or gRPC streaming, including reconnection and backpressure handling.
• Experience designing message-driven systems with explicit delivery and ordering guarantees.
• Experience designing versioned REST APIs.
• PostgreSQL, including query optimization and versioned schema migrations.
• Experience building services that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failure.
• Strong English communication and comfort working cross-functionally with autonomy, QA, and operations teams.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• 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

Before you apply

• Application Review
• Hiring Manager Review
• Tech Interviews
• CEO Screening
• Reference Check

About the company

Seoul Robotics builds autonomous driving systems for factories, ports, logistics yards, and airports. They are an international team with members from more than 10 countries.