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Backend Engineer

Sunflower Labs
Stallikon/Zurich
NOUVEAU
  • 09.07.2025
  • 100%
  • Employé
  • Durée indéterminée

  Are you passionate about designing and building robust backend systems that power next-generation autonomous drone technology? Join Sunflower Labs and contribute to a global platform enabling users to remotely pilot and manage drones in real time. 

 As a Backend Engineer, you will work closely with a dynamic team of frontend and robotics engineers to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance services.

Backend Engineer

Responsibilities 

  • Develop and maintain backend services connecting users with their drone systems worldwide 
  • Build real-time communication features enabling remote drone control and live video streaming 
  • Design, implement, and optimize APIs for client-server communication (WebSocket, REST) 
  • Develop scalable applications using Nest.js and modern backend technologies 
  • Collaborate with frontend and robotics teams to deliver new features and improvements 

Skills and Qualifications 

  • Strong programming skills in JavaScript and TypeScript (Nest.js knowledge an advantage) or similar experience in other languages and ready to learn TypeScript 
  • Experience with event driven systems 
  • Experience with client-server APIs (WebSocket, REST) 
  • Experience with Amazon AWS or Google Cloud platforms (Terraform knowledge an advantage) 
  • Proficiency in using Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration 
  • Proven experience in deploying, monitoring, and remotely updating cloud and edge services 
  • Experience in relational and non-relational databases 

If you’re ready to leverage your cloud engineering skills to build a globally-distributed infrastructure that empowers pilots to access and manage their drones from anywhere, we want to hear from you.