Backend Engineer - Distributed Factory Routing Orchestration

Isembard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Isembard in London is seeking a backend engineer to coordinate our factory network and make critical routing decisions across sites, ensuring operations align with supplier availability and schedules on the shop floor.

You will design scalable backend architecture for future sites, deploy MasonOS to new locations, and refine abstractions as they meet real production environments, all while maintaining high-security standards.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Judgment about failure modes and reliability.
• Ability to work in high-security environments.
• Interest in manufacturing and factory operations.

Responsibilities

• Build order routing across the sites in our network.
• Build supplier orchestration and the data behind it.
• Design backend architecture for more sites than we run today, not just the ones we have.
• Deploy MasonOS into new sites as the network grows, and adapt your abstractions when they meet a real shop floor.
• Set and defend the reliability standards for a system that production depends on.
• Work closely with our factory and robotics teams.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Security-conscious

Shop-floor awareness

Tools

MasonOS

Job description

Isembard in London is seeking a backend engineer to coordinate our factory network and make critical routing decisions across sites, ensuring operations align with supplier availability and schedules on the shop floor.

You will design scalable backend architecture for future sites, deploy MasonOS to new locations, and refine abstractions as they meet real production environments, all while maintaining high-security standards.