Hybrid Backend Engineer for Robotics Platform

Oversonic Robotics in Milano is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale core backend systems for our humanoid robot cognitive platform. You will tackle real-time communication, distributed processing, and high-performance computing to power the robot's brain.

This role offers a hybrid work model and opportunities to shape our technology direction. You will collaborate with robotics engineers, frontend developers, and infrastructure teams, contribute to CI/CD, and stay

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Python.
Implement and optimize concurrent systems using asyncio, multithreading, and/or multiprocessing.
Architect and build robust distributed systems components.
Develop and manage real-time communication channels using WebSockets and Pub/Sub (e.g., MQTT, NATS, Redis Pub/Sub).
Write clean, efficient, testable, and well-documented code.
Collaborate with frontend developers, robotics engineers, and infrastructure teams.
Optimize application performance, identify bottlenecks, and ensure system reliability.
Work with Docker and Kubernetes/Helm for containerization/orchestration.
Contribute to database design and management (noSQL and SQL).
Participate in code reviews and CI/CD pipelines when possible.

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
2+ years of professional Backend Software Engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in Python and concurrent programming (asyncio, multithreading, multiprocessing).
Experience designing distributed systems and real-time comms using WebSockets and Pub/Sub.
Experience with Docker and Git and databases such as MongoDB or PostgreSQL.