Hybrid Backend Engineer: Data Ingestion & APIs

Siemens Mobility; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Telecommuting / Hybrid work model

Profit sharing

Job summary

Siemens Mobility Canada is hiring a Backend Engineer to build the ingestion and API backbone for the Canada Physical AI platform. You will develop services that unify customer data, robotics system data, vision streams, metadata, and workflows into a cohesive architecture.

You will collaborate with platform architects, robotics integration engineers, AI/ML specialists, and frontend developers to deliver production-grade backend components and scalable data processing capabilities for industrial

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/SE or related field.
• Strong experience with backend development in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native services.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, service integration, and scalable backend design.
• Practical software engineering skills including testing, debugging, documentation, and clean code.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services for data ingestion, normalization, transformation, and secure storage.
• Build APIs for data onboarding, metadata access, workflow interaction, dataset management, and external integration.
• Implement reusable connector and adapter patterns for integrating customer systems, robotics sources, and internal platform services.
• Support authentication, authorization, auditability, and customer boundary handling in platform workflows.
• Build event-driven and asynchronous services for scalable data processing and pipeline execution.
• Collaborate on data contracts, schema evolution, and service interfaces with architects and AI/ML engineers.
• Help ensure platform reliability through robust error handling, observability hooks, and maintainable service design.
• Contribute to code reviews, engineering standards, and automated testing practices.
• Support the transition from early pilot implementations to more production-ready backend components.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

REST APIs

gRPC

Distributed systems

Testing

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Siemens Mobility Canada is hiring a Backend Engineer to build the ingestion and API backbone for the Canada Physical AI platform. You will develop services that unify customer data, robotics system data, vision streams, metadata, and workflows into a cohesive architecture.

You will collaborate with platform architects, robotics integration engineers, AI/ML specialists, and frontend developers to deliver production-grade backend components and scalable data processing capabilities for industrial