Now hiring at Northwind Robotics
Senior Backend Engineer
Engineering·
Remote (EU)·
Remote·
Full-Time
·€90,000 – €120,000
Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
AWS
Async
Docker
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About the role
We build the control plane that keeps a few thousand warehouse robots moving without running into each other. You'll own the services that schedule that traffic — the part of the stack where a 200ms regression is visible on the warehouse floor.
This is a hands-on senior role. You'll design the interfaces, write the code, and carry the pager for what you ship. Our fleet runs 24/7, so we care more about how you reason about failure than how many patterns you can name.
What we're looking for
5+ years building production backend services in Python or Go
Comfortable with async I/O and the failure modes it introduces
Real experience with PostgreSQL under load — indexes, locks, query plans
You've operated something that pages you, and improved it until it didn't
Nice to have: robotics, logistics, or any hard-realtime background
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The team reviews your interview alongside every applicant and gets back to you.
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