Senior Backend Software Engineer, Robot Fleet Orchestration

Garuda Ventures; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid holidays

Commuter benefits

Onsite gym

Lunch & snacks

Job summary

Mytra is building a cutting-edge robotics-driven warehouse orchestration platform. We seek an experienced backend engineer to coordinate a live fleet of bots, plan routes, and manage task execution across complex storage systems.

You will contribute to planning, state tracking, and API design, while helping scale data models and observability for production readiness. You will collaborate with software, robotics, product, and customer teams to deliver reliable orchestration capabilities in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production software engineering experience.
• Experience building software that solves routing, scheduling, planning or optimization problems.
• Familiarity with multi-agent path finding, vehicle routing or similar.
• Experience designing production data models and APIs.
• Hands-on SQL / Postgres experience.

Responsibilities

• Build backend software that coordinates a live fleet of bots and plan collision-free routes.
• Develop task assignment systems based on fleet state and priorities.
• Implement planning logic for storage and retrieval workflows.
• Support continuous replanning as work changes and disrupts.
• Maintain accurate system state between digital model and warehouse.
• Improve observability of planning cycles and fleet behavior.
• Design and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models.

Skills

Production software engineering

Routing & scheduling

Algorithmic problem spaces

API design

SQL / Postgres

Go programming

Tools

PostgreSQL

Go

NATS

Job description

About Mytra:

We’re creating an entirely new way to solve the most ubiquitous problem in industry - moving and storing material. We’re applying robotics and distributed software to create a new class of product for this $1T market. We’re focused on the supply chain industry first. The industry is in a massive bind with the continued growth of e-commerce, sharp rise in costs, and supply chain disruptions. What has been a “sleepy” industry for decades is now at the epicenter of sustaining the global economy.

About the role:

The orchestration team builds the backend software that manages all of the work that needs to happen in a Mytra system: what every bot should work on, when, how and in what sequence; in addition to tracking the current state of the system and all of the work requests. We are constantly solving dynamically changing multi-agent path finding problems against a live fleet.

What you’ll do:

• 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.

Ideal Candidates

• 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.

Nice to have:

• Experience with warehouse automation or AMR fleet management.
• Proficiency in Go.
• Experience operating Postgres at scale.
• Experience with NATS or other message-based/pub-sub systems.
• Experience supporting systems where software issues can affect physical-world operations.

Benefits Include:

• Competitive compensation and equity grants at a high-growth company backed by top-tier VCs
• Fully subsidized health coverage, including medical (baseline plans), dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• 401(k) plans and employer-subsidized life insurance
• Fully subsidized lunch and snacks at HQ—we eat and share stories together at the “long” table
• Generous PTO and company-paid holidays, including one week over the winter break so everyone can recharge together
• Voluntary pet insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Fully subsidized tax advisory services and education to help you understand your equity
• Commuter benefits, including a up to $150 monthly commuter benefit
• Lively, modern combined office and lab space where we rapidly iterate through design, build, and test phases
• Fully equipped onsite gym and showers at headquarters

Pay Notice

Compensation for this position will be set based on the candidate's experience level and location. The posted salary band is applicable only to the San Francisco Bay Area and is subject to change.