Senior Back End Engineer

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Seoul, KoreaPosted 4 days ago

Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

  • Design and implement backend services in Go using domain-driven design principles.
  • Build and maintain event pipelines between operator-facing and autonomy stack layers.
  • Define and extend RESTful API contracts for cross-team integration and confidence.

What they want

  • 5+ years building backend services with production Go experience.
  • Real-time state delivery via WebSockets,SSE,or gRPC streaming with reconnection and backpressure handling.
  • Message-driven system design with explicit delivery and ordering guarantees.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience designing and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with real-time or streaming systems like WebSockets.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely)
E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language
Korean not required
English friendliness
High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
Context
Seoul-based robotics vendor with English-first workplace policy; large international team indicates established visa sponsorship practice and foreign-worker-friendly environment.

This is Seoulstart's analysis of the public job description, not the employer's stated policy. Verify visa sponsorship, language requirements, and remote allowances directly with the recruiter.

Original posting from Seoul Robotics

About Seoul Robotics

Seoul Robotics builds autonomous driving systems for factories, ports, logistics yards, and airports. We offer two approaches: a vehicle-centric system, where autonomy runs on the vehicle itself, and an infrastructure-centric system, where the site coordinates and drives vehicles. That lets us automate whole operations, not just one vehicle at a time.

We work with global automakers and industry leaders, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Volvo CE, Mando, LG, and SKT. We are expanding quickly across ports, logistics yards, and airports.

We are an international team with members from more than 10 countries. English is our working language.

[Our Story and Technology]

  • Powering the Future of Autonomy with LV5 CTRL TWR (YouTube LINK)
  • Media (Chosun Biz LINK, PR Newswire LINK)

[Our Principles]

■ Add Value

■ Earn Trust

■ Own Your Job

■ Keep Growing

■ Respect Diversity

Mission of the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team dedicated to autonomous driving technology. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Go service development, a good understanding of RESTful API design and experience building fault-tolerant, real-time systems. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and expanding the backend responsible for streaming live fleet state to operators and relaying commands to the autonomy stack.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement services in Go, following a domain-driven design.
  • Build and maintain event pipelines between the operator-facing layer and autonomy stack.
  • Define and extend RESTful API contracts that teams can build against with confidence.
  • Deliver real-time state to operators over event-driven and streaming connections, with a focus on robustness and redundancy.
  • Maintain and extend operator-facing data in PostgreSQL through versioned migrations.
  • Maintain and extend service instrumentation so system behavior stays observable as new features land.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years building backend services, with production Go experience.
  • Experience delivering real-time state to clients over WebSockets, SSE, or gRPC streaming, including reconnection and backpressure handling.
  • Experience designing message-driven systems with explicit delivery and ordering guarantees.
  • Experience designing versioned REST APIs.
  • PostgreSQL, including query optimization and versioned schema migrations.
  • Experience building services that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failure.
  • Strong English communication and comfort working cross-functionally with autonomy, QA, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience working with real-time or streaming systems (e.g. WebSockets or similar).
  • Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript and ability to support the frontend team.

Recruitment Process

Application Review - Hiring Manager Review - Tech Interviews - CEO Screening - Reference Check - Offer

(Please be aware that the recruitment processes & schedules may be changed depending on the job and/or other circumstances)

Benefits ▷ Diversity - International team (10+ nationalities) ▷ Flexible work hours ▷ Hybrid work ▷ 10 days of paid sick leave ▷ Daily meal support ▷ No dress code ▷ Premium health check (Once a year) ▷ Snacks and premium coffee

Seoul Robotics stands for an open and respectful corporate culture because we believe diversity helps us to find new perspectives.

Seoul Robotics ensures that all our members have equal opportunities – regardless of age, ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and belief, sexual orientation, and social background. We always ensure diversity right from the recruitment stage and therefore make hiring decisions based on a candidate’s actual competencies, qualifications, and business needs at the point of the time.

Please feel free to contact us via our talent acquisition team e-mail if you have any questions.

[Seoul Robotics Talent Acquisition e-mail: recruit@seoulrobotics.org]

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