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Salary: USD 160,000 - 205,000 / annual
Matternet is building autonomous drone networks for delivery of critical goods across healthcare, logistics, food, and retail. The company is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the platform team building the cloud infrastructure for M3, the next-generation aircraft.
You will build and own well-scoped backend services and APIs that integrate M3 aircraft into delivery operations. Key responsibilities include:
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that integrate M3 aircraft into delivery operations
- Build and extend data pipelines that ingest and process M3 flight, vehicle, and telemetry data
- Write well-tested, observable, and maintainable code; participate actively in code review
- Operate services in production by deploying, monitoring, and debugging
- Provide technical support by triaging production and field issues
- Collaborate with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams
This is a hands-on role in a safety-critical environment, working with Node.js/TypeScript services, APIs, data pipelines, and operational tooling. You'll work closely with senior engineers on design and grow toward owning larger platform components over time.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years building and operating production backend systems
- Backend proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, or comparable modern language with ability to ramp quickly
- Solid fundamentals in API design, relational databases, and data modeling
- Working experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD
- Strong debugging instincts and sense of ownership for production code
- Clear communication and eagerness to seek and apply feedback
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with fleet management, IoT/telemetry, or robotics systems
- Familiarity with event streaming or real-time messaging
- Experience building with NestJS
- Exposure to hardware-software integration or new device bring-up
- UAV, aerospace, logistics, or operationally critical domain experience
- Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development
