Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable, Event-Driven Systems

Xwing; San Carlos (CA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) plan with company match

Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)

Job summary

Joby seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design scalable Python services powering manufacturing and operations. You will connect business logic, data, and hardware across a全球 distributed team, building robust APIs and event-driven data pipelines.

You will mentor peers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate across time zones to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Advanced Python development for scalable backend services.
• Experience with Docker and containerized workflows.
• Strong RESTful API design and system architecture knowledge.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Proven debugging, testing, and observability practices.
• Clear cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs powering manufacturing workflows.
• Architect event-driven data pipelines connecting internal services and hardware.
• Own end-to-end delivery from requirements to deployment and monitoring.
• Lead technical design discussions and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate across time zones with hardware, manufacturing, and operations teams.

Skills

Python

Docker

REST APIs

Kafka

Debugging

Communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/EE

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

GraphQL

CI/CD (GitHub)

Terraform

Job description

Joby seeks a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design scalable Python services powering manufacturing and operations. You will connect business logic, data, and hardware across a全球 distributed team, building robust APIs and event-driven data pipelines.

You will mentor peers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate across time zones to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a fast-moving environment.