Software Engineer, Web App & Cloud Services

Neuron Industries (YC S26); Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Neuron Industries (YC S26) in Gardena, CA is seeking a backend/cloud engineer to architect scalable systems connecting Cortex controllers to Synapse, our industrial development environment. You will design APIs, device connectivity, telemetry pipelines, and storage, while delivering frontend features in TypeScript/React to enable deployment, monitoring, and debugging of machine data.

You will work directly with founders and the embedded team to own software from design through deployment,

Qualifications

• Production backend services experience with ownership and operability.
• Ability to explain contributions to distributed systems and API design.
• Strong fundamentals in networking, databases, concurrency, and reliability.
• Experience in automated testing, instrumentation, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Architect backend services and cloud systems for controller connectivity, application state, and industrial data.
• Develop reliable APIs, data models, and service boundaries to support growth.
• Build telemetry ingestion, storage, and querying with clear decisions on throughput and latency.
• Own production reliability and observability; investigate incidents and remove bottlenecks.
• Deliver TypeScript/React features in Synapse for deployment, monitoring, and debugging machine data.
• Ship tested software through CI/CD with clear rollout and rollback paths.
• Collaborate with customers and embedded engineers to turn real workflows into platform capabilities.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

API design

CI/CD

Telemetry

Data modeling

Go

Rust

Python

C++

TypeScript

React

Tools

Go

Rust

Python

C++

TypeScript

React

Job description

You’ll build the backend and cloud architecture connecting Cortex controllers to Synapse, our development environment for industrial machines. Your work will span APIs, device connectivity, telemetry pipelines, data storage, and the application features engineers use to deploy, monitor, and debug their systems.

We’re looking for strong backend and distributed systems judgment, backed by hands-on software delivery. You’ll make decisions about how services communicate, how data moves, and how the system behaves as usage grows. You’ll also build the frontend features needed to deliver a complete product experience. Working directly with the founders and embedded team, you’ll own software from design through deployment, operation, and improvement.

Gardena, CA • Full-time • On-site five days a week

What you’ll build

• Architect backend services and cloud systems for controller connectivity, application state, and industrial data, with clear paths to thousands or millions of users and devices.
• Develop reliable APIs, data models, and service boundaries that support growth without making the early product unnecessarily complex.
• Build telemetry ingestion, storage, and querying, with explicit decisions about throughput, latency, consistency, and failure handling.
• Own production reliability and observability; investigate incidents and remove bottlenecks using measured evidence.
• Deliver TypeScript/React features in Synapse for deployment, monitoring, debugging, and working with machine data.
• Ship tested software through CI/CD with clear rollout, rollback, and recovery paths.
• Work with customers and embedded engineers to turn real machine workflows into useful application and cloud capabilities.

What you’ve already proven

• Strong engineering depth demonstrated through personal architecture ownership in a production system scaled from an early product to thousands or millions of users or devices.
• You’ve designed, implemented, and operated production backend services and can explain your personal contribution and technical decisions.
• Strong networking, API design, database, concurrency, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• You can explain a production bottleneck or failure you resolved, the evidence you used, and the resulting improvement.
• Depth in a backend language such as Go, Rust, Python, or C++, and the ability to deliver application features in TypeScript/React.
• You use automated testing, instrumentation, and operational feedback to improve the systems you own.
• You can turn incomplete requirements into useful software and communicate tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, and delivery speed.

What gets you here faster

• Connected device fleets, industrial telemetry, or cloud services supporting physical systems.
• Developer tools, IDEs, simulation, or production AI features.
• Ownership across backend architecture and frontend workflows in an early product.