Backend Engineer (gn) with Cloud Know-How

Dresden

Full-time

Permanent employee

Your mission

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

Your profile

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

Why us?

Make an impact!
Work on an innovative, deep tech product that adds value to the robotics world and to society! Become a crucial part of something new, big and exciting where you can truly make an impact!

Our teams inspire!
Cross-functional communication is key. You'll get to know many of your 100+ colleagues. Collaborate with great people on our international teams who value knowledge sharing and unique ways of doing things!

Be authentic!
Work in a value-driven environment where everything may not be perfect, but we're working on it! Your feedback is required while you receive feedback and appreciation for your work!

Help others!
You can have up to 3 days of volunteer time off to help your favorite charity.

Develop yourself!
We offer training and mental health opportunities so that you can develop both mentally and professionally.

And there is even more!
Enjoy our free lunch, snacks and drinks, team events, 30 days of annual vacation + additional rest during Christmas season until New Year. If your child gets sick, we assure that a 100% of your usual earnings will be paid while you take care of your little one.

About us

EASY-TO-USE-ROBOTICS FOR EVERYONE

Imagine a world with more room to unleash our unique cognitive strengths at work. A world where all people – whether craftsmans, blue-collars worker or engineers – have access to automation technologies that perform inhuman, monotonous and high-precision tasks much more efficiently than we do.

At Wandelbots, we're fundamentally reshaping the way to work with robots. We eliminate the complexity and develop easy-to-use solutions to speed up automation and empower everyone to work with industrial robots and beyond.

Mission

2017 founded, Wandelbots employs more than 100 people from 14 countries today. From our headquarters in Dresden Germany, we are giving our heart and soul to follow our mission, to empower everybody to easily work with robots.

Our Culture

Wandelbots’ team culture is deeply driven by our purpose and values. We love autonomy, high fives, and every kind of cake. We celebrate team efforts and learning moments. We grow through feedback and honor kindness and empathy. We build waterslides and invent anti-racism campaigns. We are creative, innovative and blessed with a can-do attitude. We truly believe that robots love people, so we just do love them back.