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Senior Software Engineer – Backend, RIVR

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1 day ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend services integrating RIVR’s platform with customer systems.
  • Develop and enhance backend infrastructure for the robot operations platform.
  • Build backend components that aggregate KPIs and provide platform and business-value insights.
  • Contribute to backend architecture, reliability, and scalability in a containerized microservices environment.
  • Collaborate with frontend, robotics, and infrastructure engineers on end-to-end features.
  • Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of professional experience designing, building, deploying, and operating backend systems in a Service-Oriented Architecture context.
  • Strong experience with TypeScript, Java, C++, and/or Python.
  • Experience with interaction patterns such as RPC, publish/subscribe, and event-driven systems.
  • Experience with at least two database technologies.
  • Experience integrating complex third-party APIs and building reliable distributed workflows, or building event-driven applications and scalable data processing pipelines.
  • Preferred: familiarity configuring and operating CI/CD pipelines.
  • Preferred: background in robotics, IoT, fleet management, or real-time data streaming systems.
  • Preferred: familiarity with observability tools and standards such as OTLP, Grafana, and Prometheus, particularly for devices with intermittent connectivity.

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10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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