Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This backend generalist role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it applies familiar platform principles, APIs, observability, reliability, and controlled rollouts to a product surface that extends beyond the browser and into real world automation. The listing signals a company building a developer facing platform with user facing applications and APIs, where backend work underpins safe, predictable operations rather than purely CRUD style workflows.
For a SaaS engineer, the career value here is the chance to deepen core platform skills in an environment that stresses determinism and operational rigor. Work spanning state management, low latency communication, and test infrastructure builds transferable judgment around resilience, incident prevention, and system boundaries. Exposure to Kubernetes, CI/CD, and multi language services also maps cleanly to modern SaaS platform teams, while adding experience with performance critical components that many software products never require.
This position is best suited to senior engineers who prefer owning architecture and engineering standards, and who enjoy pairing hands on delivery with mentoring. It will fit someone comfortable moving between languages and occasionally contributing to front end work, while keeping a primary focus on backend systems and operational reliability in a product led environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Location
New York City, NY, Glen Cove, NY
Employment Type
Full time
About Standard Bots
Standard Bot’s mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users. Our user-facing applications and APIs directly empower individuals and developers to jump directly into solving their challenges without the need for a background in robotics or automation. A relentless focus on simplicity and ease of use brings this revolutionary potential to new users and industries.
What you'll do:
We're looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders to help architect robust backend systems that power our robotics platform. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work on critical infrastructure that enables safe and reliable robot operations, from hardware integrations to state management and control systems. You’ll work on new R&D hardware as well as our production robot hardware.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement robust backend architectures for robot control and state management
Build and maintain test infrastructure to ensure system safety and reliability
Develop hardware integration systems for various robotics peripherals (cameras, grippers, sensors)
Drive technical decisions around system architecture and engineering best practices
Create reliable APIs and services that enable seamless robot operations
Implement monitoring, logging, and debugging systems for robot operations
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Mentor other engineers on backend architecture and system design principles
Tech Stack:
Who you are
We do not require or favor any background in robotics
We’re looking for engineers who are self driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful. We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new area.
Our ideal candidate will be open to doing approximately 15% front-end work and 85% back-end work, with flexibility to sway more towards one or the other, depending on current projects and team needs. Our backend focuses on real-time robotics control, handling high-performance data streams and low-latency communication rather than traditional database-driven applications. This means working on complex, dynamic systems that interact with the physical world in real time.
Skills you’ll bring:
Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5-10 years of experience working in complex environments
Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
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Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
Compensation and Benefits:
The salary range for this role is $200,000 to $250,000, depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.
