Backend Engineer (gn) with Cloud Know-How

At Wandelbots, we're building NOVA — a platform that makes robot programming accessible to everyone. Our NOVA Cloud team is building the management & orchestration layer that extends the NOVA ecosystem into the cloud, enables multi-tenancy, and opens the platform to third-party integrations.

As a Senior Engineer on this team, you'll lead the architecture — designing service boundaries, APIs, and plugin infrastructure that define how NOVA scales. You'll own services end-to-end, bring structure to complex technical problems, and set the standard for how the team builds and operates cloud-native infrastructure.

This is a role for a senior engineer who thinks beyond features and cares deeply about how systems fit together — and who wants to grow into a staff-level impact at Wandelbots.

You'll be the architect behind what comes next:

• Drive the architecture of our cloud platform with extensibility and scalability in mind

• Accelerate the NOVA platform by building NOVA Cloud - the orchestration layer for NOVA OS instances that extends the NOVA ecosystem with new capabilities

• Design integration patterns and APIs that allow external services and plugins to connect reliably

• Think through multi-tenancy, service boundaries, and ecosystem design from the ground up

• Implement backend services and own them end-to-end, from design through production

• Evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure

• Experience in developing helm charts, GitOps

• Define how services communicate, authenticate, and scale

• Bring structure to complex technical problems and take others along with you

• In-depth experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems, not just building features within them

• Strong architectural thinking: service boundaries, API design, extensibility patterns

• Experience building platforms that other systems or teams integrate against

• Kubernetes in real production environments

• Cloud expertise

• Authentication and authorization at the platform level (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC)

• Message broker experience (NATS or similar)

• Experience in TypeScript backend development

Nice to have:

• Experience designing plugin or marketplace ecosystems

• Production ownership experience

• Mature CI/CD thinking