Senior Software Development Engineer - Backend

Job Description

Our Tokyo Engineering team is changing gears to meet the growing needs of our awesome customers - from a handful of robots to hundreds of robots, from a small team to multiple squads. The team works closely with some of the premier enterprise customers in Japan to build state-of-the-art robotic solutions by leveraging rapyuta.io, our robotics platform, and the surrounding ecosystem. The team’s mission is to pioneer scalable, collaborative, and flexible robotics solutions. The work we do here does not stop with our products. Through rapyuta.io, they will be distributed to enable anyone to build great solutions.

This position is for developing a warehouse automation system which has up to 100 robots operating in a single installation. You will be responsible for the software which links the robots running in the warehouse to the client’s warehouse management system.

In this role, the Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Designing, implementing, testing, and enhancing warehouse automation software

• Acting as a team lead to manage people, project priorities, and technical resources

• Integrating with 3rd party vendors and systems

• Leading design efforts for major software components and their integration into the principal architecture

• Actively participate in enhancing the design of existing software components to improve their functionality and performance.

• Contributing to core team processes and to company-wide efforts

• Identifying opportunities for improvements in engineering processes and make relevant recommendations