Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer to own and evolve the backbone of Norbert's autonomous healthcare robot platform. The role involves designing a unified, domain‑driven backend that connects robots, IoT devices, Android apps, EMR systems and a user portal.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and implement a unified, domain‑driven backend across multiple interconnected systems.
• Own and evolve AWS cloud infrastructure for IoT devices and robotic platforms.
• Design, build and maintain internal, enterprise and streaming APIs.
• Develop healthcare interoperability connectors (EMR integrations).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Manage compliance and security posture, including documentation, cybersecurity and privacy.
• Make critical architecture decisions to enable large‑scale growth.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of backend development experience, with at least 5 years in senior‑level responsibilities.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross‑functional teams.
• Experience owning compliance‑adjacent work such as security and privacy documentation.

Required skills

• Python (primary language).
• AWS cloud services.
• Docker containerization.
• MongoDB and REST API design (NoSQL).
• GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Datadog monitoring and incident management.
• Kubernetes container orchestration (nice to have).
• Go or C++ (nice to have).
• Retool or Vue.js for dashboard development (nice to have).

What we offer

• Real impact on patient care through autonomous robotics.
• High autonomy and end‑to‑end ownership.
• Opportunity to work with a talented, diverse, international team.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Cutting‑edge stack: embedded AI, robotics, LLMs, multimodal sensing.