Role Outline
Engineered Arts is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain the robust server-side systems that power our humanoid robots. Working closely with product, devOps and robotics teams you will design, implement and optimize scalable APIs and services that drive our robots in real-time.
Our internal motto is “Be Wow,” and your backend architectures will form the invisible foundation that delivers truly seamless, high-performance robot experiences.
Main Responsibilities
* Service & API Development
* Data Management & Pipelines
* Performance Monitoring & Optimization
* Collaboration & Code Quality
Challenges
* Balancing maintainable, modular code with the demands of real-time interaction needs.
* Designing systems that gracefully handle intermittent connectivity and partial failures in field-deployed robots.
* Scaling data ingestion and processing pipelines to accommodate growing robot fleets and richer telemetry streams.
* Ensuring backward-compatibility of APIs while iterating rapidly on new features.
Qualifications, Knowledge, Key Skills and Experience
Essential
* Significant backend development experience in production systems (Python, Go, Java, or similar)
* Strong expertise in designing and implementing microservices and APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
* Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling
Desirable
* Familiarity with distributed tracing and performance profiling tools (Jaeger, Zipkin)
* Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
* Background in real-time systems or IoT architectures
Useful
* Understanding of network protocols and security best-practices (TLS, OAuth)
* Prior exposure to robotics telemetry or control-plane integrations
About Engineered Arts
Engineered Arts is the leading manufacturer of full-size humanoid robots used for entertainment, education and communication. With 20 years of hardware and software development, our robots have been sold in over 30 countries worldwide with customers such as NASA, PwC, Meta and many more.
Our Ameca robot is well known as ‘the face of AI’ and a social media viral success, taking advantage of the generative AI craze. Along with our ultra-realistic Mesmer range of animated figures our robots continue to surprise and excite visitors at museums, theme parks, visitor attractions and trade shows as well as aid leading universities with AI and robotics research. Our robots are poised to break into the future mega-expansion service robot segment, with applications such as front of house, receptions, check-in desks, information points and PoS. We are also exploring how our humanoid robot technology can disrupt other robotics sectors such as the growing cobot sub-segment of the industrial robotics market.
Further to our hardware range we also offer our robots as a virtual offering. This virtual robot acts in exactly the same way as the real life robots. This allows our customers to use a mix of real and virtual characters and allows 3rd party developers to create new and exciting applications on top of our robot platform, opening it up to new use cases and market segments.
We are a team of dedicated engineers and creatives striving to develop the very best experiences for our customers. Our internal motto is ‘ Be Wow ’, everything we do is fun, entertaining or surprising to encounter. We always push the boundaries of what is possible in humanoid robotics, researching and developing new systems and techniques to further their appeal. We explore and challenge the human perception of robots as well as the fear and discomfort and the excitement and joy life-like mechanical humanoids present.