Lead Backend Software Engineer
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Job description
About the Position
We are looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to join Mentee Robotics, a subsidiary of Mobileye. In this role, you will lead the SW Backend Team, focusing on scaling robotic operations, fleet management, and performance analytics. You will drive architectural decisions and foster a culture of technical innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the SW Backend Team, responsible for scaling robotic operations, fleet management, and performance analytics.
- Drive architectural decisions around scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Work closely with AI, simulation, and parallel software teams to ensure cohesive development across the company.
- Foster a culture of technical innovation, engineering excellence, and personal accountability.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience leading backend or platform teams, including ownership of roadmaps and cross-team collaboration.
- 5+ years of hands-on backend software development experience, building production-grade systems at scale.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining distributed systems, robust APIs, and data-driven services.
- Deep proficiency in Python and a strong working knowledge of TypeScript.
- Extensive hands-on experience designing and managing both SQL and NoSQL databases. Specific experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis is highly preferred.
Nice to Have
- Solid experience designing and implementing asynchronous communication using message brokers and event streaming platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Hands-on experience implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Elastic Stack / ELK, Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure the reliability and health of complex, distributed architectures.
- Experience deploying, scaling, and managing applications on cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with popular web frameworks like NestJS, Django, or FastAPI.
- Basic working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, NextJS) to occasionally build or maintain internal dashboards and tools.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge field of robotics and autonomous systems
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
About the Company
Mentee Robotics, now part of Mobileye, brings world-class robotics expertise, together with Mobileye's decades of leadership in computer vision, machine learning, and autonomous driving technologies. Building on that foundation, Mentee by Mobileye is creating the "MenteeBot", the AI-first humanoid robot that combines perception, reasoning, learning, and advanced dexterous manipulation, designed to work alongside people in their everyday lives, at the workplace, and in the home. At Mobileye, our technologies power more than 230 million vehicles worldwide and have helped shape the future of autonomous mobility. With teams around the world, we continue to innovate at the forefront of autonomous systems, advancing the next generation of Physical AI for real life.
Apply Now
If you are passionate about robotics and leading a team to innovate in the field of AI-first humanoid robots, we encourage you to apply. This position is with Mentee Robotics, which is owned by Mobileye but operates as a separate company. Mentee Robotics manages its own recruitment process, and when you click Apply you will be redirected to its recruitment system to submit your application.
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