Lead Backend Orchestrator for Live Robot Fleet

Matcha; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity grants

Health coverage

401(k) plans

Lunch and snacks

Paid holidays

Pet insurance

Tax advisory services

Commuter benefits

Office gym

Job summary

Mytra seeks a seasoned software engineer to join the orchestration team building backend systems that manage a live fleet of bots, planning routes and coordinating tasks across a shared space.

You will implement task assignment, planning for storage workflows, and continuous replanning to keep operations efficient, while maintaining accurate state across digital and physical layers. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential in production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software engineering experience.
• Experience building and shipping production software that solves search, routing, scheduling, planning, or optimization problems.
• Familiarity with algorithmic problem spaces such as multi-agent path finding, vehicle routing, constraint solving, graph search, or similar.
• Experience designing and maintaining production data models or schemas, including making changes safely as systems evolve.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially SQL or Postgres.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs used by other services, systems, or teams.
• Ability to make practical system design decisions and understand the tradeoffs involved.
• Strong ability to work through ambiguity, identify the right questions to ask, and move problems forward independently.
• Product and technical judgment, with the ability to contribute ideas about what should be built while executing on current team priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build backend software that coordinates a live fleet of bots, including planning collision-free and time-feasible routes across a shared operating space.
• Develop systems for assigning tasks to bots based on fleet state, task dependencies, timing constraints, and operational priorities.
• Implement planning logic for storage and retrieval workflows, including where payloads should be stored and what moves are required to access blocked or buried payloads.
• Support continuous replanning as work is added, canceled, reprioritized, or disrupted, while helping keep the fleet operating efficiently.
• Maintain accurate system state across Mytra’s digital model and the physical warehouse environment.
• Build recovery workflows for situations where the physical system and software state diverge, including blocked areas, maintenance zones, network drops, spills, or other unexpected events.
• Improve observability into planning cycles, task execution, and system behavior so engineers can debug issues and improve performance over time.
• Design and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models that support orchestration, planning, task execution, and fleet operations.
• Integrate customer warehouse workflows and WMS data into Mytra’s system to support efficient deployment and operation of the platform.
• Collaborate with software, robotics, product, and customer-facing teams to deliver reliable orchestration capabilities in production.

Skills

Production software

Routing optimization

Data modeling

SQL/Postgres

APIs

System design

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Go

Postgres

NATS

Job description

Mytra seeks a seasoned software engineer to join the orchestration team building backend systems that manage a live fleet of bots, planning routes and coordinating tasks across a shared space.

You will implement task assignment, planning for storage workflows, and continuous replanning to keep operations efficient, while maintaining accurate state across digital and physical layers. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential in production.