As a Staff Engineer on the NOVA Cloud team, you'll lead the architecture for our cloud platform, designing service boundaries, APIs, and plugin infrastructure. You'll own services end-to-end, bring structure to complex technical problems, and set the standard for how the team builds and operates cloud-native infrastructure. This is a role for a senior engineer who thinks beyond features and cares deeply about how systems fit together.

Activities

• Drive the architecture of our cloud platform with extensibility and scalability in mind
• Accelerate the NOVA platform by building NOVA Cloud - the orchestration layer for NOVA
• OS instances that extends the NOVA ecosystem with new capabilities
• Design integration patterns and APIs that allow external services and plugins to connect reliably
• Think through multi-tenancy, service boundaries, and ecosystem design from the ground up
• Implement backend services and own them end-to-end, from design through production
• Evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure
• Experience in developing helm charts, GitOps
• Define how services communicate, authenticate, and scale
• Bring structure to complex technical problems and take others along with you

Requirements

- In-depth experience designing distributed, cloud-native systems, not just building features within them - Strong architectural thinking: service boundaries, API design, extensibility patterns - Experience building platforms that other systems or teams integrate against - Kubernetes in real production environments - Cloud expertise - Authentication and authorization at the platform level (OAuth2, OIDC, RBAC) - Message broker experience (NATS or similar) - Experience in TypeScript backend development Nice To Have: - Experience designing plugin or marketplace ecosystems - Production ownership experience - Mature CI/CD thinking

Team

Our NOVA Cloud team is building the management & orchestration layer that extends the NOVA ecosystem into the cloud, enables multi-tenancy, and opens the platform to third-party integrations.

Application Process

1. Screening Call, remote, with Recruiter (30 min)
2. Follow-Up Interview, remote, with Hiring Manager / VP Engineering (45 min)
3. Tech Interview, remote, with Engineers from the team (60 min)
4. Onsite Interview with Team, Product Demo and Live Exercise (appr. 3h)

About the Company

Imagine a world with more room to unleash our unique cognitive strengths at work. A world where all people - whether craftsmans, blue-collars worker or engineers - have access to automation technologies that perform inhuman, monotonous and high-precision tasks much more efficiently than we do.

At Wandelbots, we're fundamentally reshaping the way to work with robots. We eliminate the complexity and develop easy-to-use solutions to speed up automation and empower everyone to work with industrial robots and beyond.

2017 founded, Wandelbots employs more than 100 people from 14 countries today. From our headquarters in Dresden Germany, we are giving our heart and soul to follow our mission, to empower everybody to easily work with robots.

Wandelbots' team culture is deeply driven by our purpose and values. We love autonomy, high fives, and every kind of cake. We celebrate team efforts and learning moments. We grow through feedback and honor kindness and empathy. We build waterslides and invent anti-racism campaigns. We are creative, innovative and blessed with a can-do attitude. We truly believe that robots love people, so we just do love them back.