Senior Backend Engineer

Anywhere is a robotics software company building a universal operating system for robots and drones. Our technology enables remote operation, autonomy, and AI-driven control across diverse platforms. Backed by global partners, Anywhere is focused on security, inspection, and last-mile delivery, and offers hardware-agnostic solutions designed for real-world deployment.

We are building a next-generation robotics cloud platform that enables real-time robot telemetry, control, and data analysis. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and implementing our scalable cloud infrastructure from the ground up. This is a high-impact opportunity to define the architecture, core services, and best practices for a mission-critical robotics platform.

If you’re passionate about building high-performance distributed systems and want to work on cutting-edge robotics & industrial IoT applications, this role is for you!

Responsibilities

• Architect & develop the core backend infrastructure, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Design and implement scalable, high-availability systems for real-time robot telemetry & control.
• Make critical technology decisions to ensure scalability, security, and low-latency operations.
• Work closely with robotics engineers & cloud architects to design integration protocols.
• Establish and enforce development standards, best practices, and technical documentation.
• Implement event-driven architectures for handling high-throughput sensor data.
• Optimize performance for real-time messaging and streaming architectures.
• Ensure security, authentication, and encryption best practices for connected devices.
  
  

• 7+ years of backend software development experience, including system architecture.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and designing scalable infrastructure.
• Proven track record of architecting and building backend systems from inception.
• Proficiency in Java
• Experience with containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep experience with IoT communication protocols, particularly MQTT.
• Expertise in real-time data processing & streaming (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark).
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL - PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL - DynamoDB, MongoDB).
  
  

• Solid understanding of security best practices for IoT/cloud-connected devices.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate complex ideas effectively.
• Experience designing MQTT brokers and topic hierarchies for large-scale IoT deployments.
• Hands-on experience with robotics, IoT, or industrial automation systems.
• Familiarity with ROS (Robot Operating System) or other robotic middleware.
• Deep knowledge of message queue systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ).
• Experience with real-time communication protocols (WebSockets, gRPC, RTSP).
• Previous startup experience or experience in early-stage engineering teams.
• Technical leadership or prior experience leading backend teams.