Staff Software Backend Engineer, Factory Software Platform

Amperesand • Reno, NV

19h • Onsite

About The Position

This role is an opportunity to work with a high-agency startup team operating in the hard-tech and energy systems space. You will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling the backend systems that power Amperesand’s factory software and interacting with ERP, analytics, and operational software platforms. This is a hands-on role. You will architect and deliver production-grade backend services that support high-concurrency, high-availability workloads across manufacturing, supply chain, and enterprise operations. The role requires close collaboration with frontend, product, AI, and domain expert teams — along with a strong sense of ownership, systems thinking, and pragmatism in building reliable software for real-world operations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering, including production deployments in scalable environments.
• Strong experience with Go and building production backend services.
• Proven experience designing systems for high concurrency, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience building backend platforms for operational systems such as MES, ERP, analytics, workflow engines, or other enterprise/business-critical software.
• Strong understanding of API design, microservices, distributed system patterns, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
• Experience with databases and data systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, MQTT, NATS, ClickHouse, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with real-time data processing, telemetry pipelines, and backend systems that support dashboards, reporting, and analytics.
• Experience with observability and production operations, including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident debugging.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerized deployment environments such as AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Strong testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end service validation.
• Comfortable working with AI coding tools such as Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar tools to supplement and accelerate development.
• Proficiency in English and ability to communicate effectively with wider teams.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, including international
• Ability to walk or tour through the factory to test the software

Nice To Haves

• Background in energy engineering systems (power systems, energy storage, power electronics, or controls).
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, supply chain, energy systems, or other operational technology domains
• Experience designing systems that integrate with machines, PLCs, IoT devices, or external enterprise platforms.
• Experience with MES, digital twins, or asset health monitoring.
• Open-source contributions to backend projects.
• Experience working within or building design systems.
• Experience building backend platforms that support AI-enabled workflows, data capture, or operational intelligence systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and software DevOps practices.
• Experience working with hardware, firmware, or operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, architecture, and implementation of backend systems for Amperesand’s factory software and interactions with ERP, analytics, and operational platforms.
• Build and scale high-concurrency, high-availability services in Go to support mission-critical manufacturing and business workflows.
• Design robust APIs, service interfaces, and data models that enable frontend applications, analytics systems, and internal tools.
• Develop backend capabilities for workflow orchestration, machine and system integrations, telemetry ingestion, operational event processing, and reporting.
• Build distributed systems that are reliable, observable, and resilient under production load.
• Optimize backend performance across service latency, throughput, data access patterns, and system resource utilization.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, product, and domain teams to translate operational requirements into scalable backend architectures.
• Drive best practices for service reliability, fault tolerance, testing, deployment, and maintainability.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and platform layers.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and strong engineering standards.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools where useful to improve engineering velocity, code quality, and developer productivity.
• Document service designs, architecture decisions, and tradeoffs for cross-functional stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

What This Job Offers

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