Senior Enterprise Software Engineer
Join Our Team At Onward Robotics, we are a bold, gritty, and purposeful team with an ambitious mission to revolutionize fulfillment. Our team is driven by a client-first mentality: we aim to solve hard problems and fuel our clients’ growth with innovation. We are seeking talented individuals who will have a huge impact on both our business and our team. Join us on our mission as we move fast, think big, and have fun!
About Us
Onward Robotics delivers innovative automation technology that coordinates humans and robots as a cohesive system to revolutionize fulfillment. Our Meet Me solution combines proprietary software with person-to-goods mobile robots to increase efficiency in warehousing, distribution, and e-commerce operations. Onward Robotics provides the boost in productivity, flexibility, and speed that companies need to remain competitive and grow. Learn more at onwardrobotics.com. Job Purpose As a Senior Enterprise Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with system engineers, software architects, roboticists, product managers, and UX designers to define requirements and deliver high-quality front-end user interfaces and support back-end APIs for the control, configuration, monitoring, and security of Onward Robotics platforms. As a core member of the engineering team, you will contribute to the design, development, and long-term maintenance of scalable software systems and services that manage and orchestrate Onward’s fleet of robots, ensuring reliability, usability, and operational excellence. Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Enterprise team members, product managers, and UX designers to implement and maintain intuitive, high-quality user interfaces for a robot fleet management web UI and mobile application.
- Implement UX designs and maintain front-end architecture and re-usable UI frameworks using
TypeScript and React
and related technologies.
- Develop and integrate
Python-based REST APIs
supporting robot fleet management, configuration, and tasking.
- Ensure consistent visual design, accessibility, and usability across web and mobile platforms.
- Contribute to robust build, testing, and deployment pipelines for UI and client-facing applications.
- Work with other software teams to ensure interfaces are well defined and services are interoperable
Typical Day:
- Collaborate with UX designers, Product managers, and Enterprise engineers in an Agile environment to refine user workflows and technical requirements.
- Design and implement UI components using
TypeScript and React
for the Management Web UI and mobile application in clean, efficient code
- Integrate front-end applications with
Python (FastAPI or similar) REST APIs
.
- Build responsive, performant interfaces that handle real-time or near-real-time operational data.
- Debug and resolve issues across the UI stack, including API integration and state management.
- Participate in code reviews and testing to maintain high software quality standards.
- Work with other software teams to ensure seamless integration and interoperability of services.
- Contribute to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and cross-functional design discussions.
Required Skills:
- Strong focus on front-end development for complex, data-driven applications
TypeScript, React, React Native
expertise
- Experience integrating UIs with
Python-based REST APIs
• Experience building management dashboards or operational control interfaces
- Understanding of modern UI architecture, state management, and component design
- Large scale distributed system development
- Development of tasking based on requirements
Minimum Experience Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience designing and implementing front-end UIs and integrating with backend APIs
- Extensive experience with
React
and modern front-end tooling
- Proficiency in
TypeScript
• Experience working with REST APIs (FastAPI or similar)
- Experience with OAuth, authentication, and secure API consumption
- Familiarity with mobile application development (React Native or similar preferred)
- Ability to work flexibly and adapt quickly in a startup environment
- Experience working with large-scale distributed software systems
Preferred Experience Requirements:
- Experience with Python backend development
- Experience with Unix / Linux development environments
- Experience with containerization, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with shared design systems and component libraries
- Experience with real-time or event-driven data (WebSockets, MQTT, etc.)
- Experience with software configuration management systems (Git)
- Experience with Unix / Linux
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with various communication protocols (HTTPS, MQTT, AMQP)
- Experience with commercial software deployment and support
Minimum Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
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