Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript, APIs & Search

Robotic Technologies Automation; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build secure backend services for content discovery and retrieval in a Florida-based team. You will design scalable TypeScript/Node.js services, define robust REST APIs, and ensure proper authentication, authorization, and data access controls.

You will work on MCP integrations and PostgreSQL-backed data models, implement automated tests, and contribute to observability, logging, and deployment reliability in a

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend development.
• Strong production proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience designing REST APIs or comparable service interfaces.
• Practical experience with authentication, scoped authorization, identity propagation, and permission-aware data access.
• Experience designing search indexes and retrieval workflows, including filters, updates, lifecycle management, and relevance or performance evaluation.
• Strong PostgreSQL and SQL skills.
• Experience with automated testing, production observability, containerized services, and deployment recovery.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and produce maintainable documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable TypeScript and Node.js services for content discovery, search, and retrieval.
• Develop well-defined APIs with versioned contracts, pagination, input validation, structured responses, and consistent error handling.
• Build and maintain search indexes, including incremental updates, versioning, rebuilds, freshness monitoring, and relevance evaluation.
• Implement MCP server tools with validated input schemas, bounded capabilities, structured outputs, and predictable failure behavior.
• Enforce caller identity and authorization across API, search, retrieval, and MCP execution paths.
• Protect database credentials and prevent direct database access or unrestricted SQL exposure to consumers and AI agents.
• Use PostgreSQL and SQL for data modeling, query analysis, stable identifiers, data quality validation, and provenance.
• Build automated unit, integration, and contract tests.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, performance diagnostics, and production monitoring.
• Support containerized deployments, safe rollbacks, operational recovery, technical documentation, and maintainable integration examples.
• Collaborate with platform, product, and engineering teams to deliver dependable services.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

Authentication & Authorization

Containerized deployments

Testing & observability

Documentation

Tools

Azure Container Apps

Azure Blob Storage

PostgreSQL

Job description

Robotic Technologies Automation is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to build secure backend services for content discovery and retrieval in a Florida-based team. You will design scalable TypeScript/Node.js services, define robust REST APIs, and ensure proper authentication, authorization, and data access controls.

You will work on MCP integrations and PostgreSQL-backed data models, implement automated tests, and contribute to observability, logging, and deployment reliability in a