Backend Engineer

Matternet • Mountain View, CA

16h

About The Position

Matternet is building autonomous drone networks to deliver critical goods faster, cleaner, and at lower cost. The Backend Engineer will join the platform team to help build the cloud platform for M3, Matternet’s next-generation aircraft. This hands-on role in a safety-critical environment involves building and owning well-scoped services and pipelines, collaborating with senior engineers on design, and growing toward ownership of larger components over time.

The engineer will work across Node.js/TypeScript services and APIs, data pipelines for flight and telemetry data, and tooling used by the aircraft program. The role includes supporting systems in production and collaborating with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Backend proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, or a comparable modern language with the ability to ramp up quickly.
• Solid fundamentals in API design, relational databases, and data modeling.
• Working experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD.
• Strong debugging instincts and a sense of ownership for code running in production.
• Clear communication and eagerness to seek out and apply feedback.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with fleet management, IoT/telemetry, or robotics systems.
• Familiarity with event streaming or real-time messaging.
• Experience building with NestJS.
• Exposure to hardware-software integration or new device bring-up.
• UAV, aerospace, logistics, or other operationally critical domain experience.
• Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that integrate the M3 aircraft into delivery operations.
• Build and extend data pipelines that ingest and process M3 flight, vehicle, and telemetry data.
• Write well-tested, observable, maintainable code and participate actively in code review.
• Deploy, monitor, and debug services in production.
• Provide technical support by triaging production and field issues and escalating when needed.
• Collaborate with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams.

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• Unlimited paid time off
• Company holidays
• 401(k) plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed