Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Matternet is building the future of delivery with autonomous drone networks that move critical goods faster, cleaner, and at lower cost. We work with partners across healthcare, logistics, food, and retail to deliver everything from medical items to everyday essentials, safely and reliably.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver backend services and APIs for delivery operations and partner integrations
• Build and extend the data pipelines that ingest and process flight, vehicle, and telemetry data
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of services that support live operations
• Drive software verification, deployment, and observability across production systems
• Provide technical support, triaging and resolving production and field issues
• Collaborate with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams

Requirements

• 6+ years building and operating production backend systems, with a track record of owning major components independently
• Strong backend proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, or a comparable modern language you can ramp from quickly
• Solid grounding in API design (GraphQL and/or REST), relational databases, data modeling, and system design
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD
• Strong practices around reliability, monitoring, and security
• Clear technical communication and cross-functional collaboration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fleet management, IoT/telemetry, or robotics systems
• Experience building with NestJS and Next.js (React a plus)
• Familiarity with event streaming or real-time messaging (Kafka, MQTT, or similar)
• Experience integrating with external partner systems and APIs
• UAV, aerospace, logistics, or other operationally critical domain experience
• Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development