Senior Edge Backend Engineer for Autonomous Systems

NestAI; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Occupational healthcare

Sports & culture stipend (€200/year)

Mental wellbeing services

Choice of Mac or PC and work phone

Company events; lunch expenses

Job summary

NestAI in Helsinki is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with a strong backend focus to lead the technical integration and data orchestration of our autonomous systems for partner networks.

You will design, build, and scale resilient API layers, streaming pipelines, and mission-critical backend services that run in low-latency, bandwidth-constrained edge environments, working on-site with partners and remotely as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in server-side, distributed backend engineering.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ with async patterns.
• Experience with UAV/UGV or edge robotics protocols.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and edge deployments.
• Strong technical communication and collaboration with partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale microservices and data pipelines for NestOS edge systems.
• Develop RESTful, gRPC, and WebSocket backends for real-time telemetry.
• Integrate hardware telemetry and autonomous mission control with backend services.
• Collaborate on-site and remotely with partner teams and feedback loop.
• Lead technical integration and backend architecture for field deployments.

Skills

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Backend integration

Containerization

WebSockets

CI/CD pipelines

Technical communication

Edge computing

UAV/UGV experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ROS/ROS2

MAVLink

SQL/NoSQL databases

REST/gRPC/WebSocket APIs

Job description

NestAI in Helsinki is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with a strong backend focus to lead the technical integration and data orchestration of our autonomous systems for partner networks.

You will design, build, and scale resilient API layers, streaming pipelines, and mission-critical backend services that run in low-latency, bandwidth-constrained edge environments, working on-site with partners and remotely as needed.