About the role
Your mission At Wandelbots, we're building NOVA — a platform that makes robot programming accessible to everyone. 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. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you'll lead the architecture — designing service boundaries, APIs, and plugin infrastructure that define how NOVA scales. 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 — and who wants to grow into a staff-level impact at Wandelbots. You'll be the architect behind what comes next: 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 Your profile 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 Why us? Make an impact! Work on an innovative, deep tech product that adds value to the robotics world and to society! Become a crucial part of something new, big and exciting where you can truly make an impact! Our teams inspire! Cross-functional communication is key. You'll get to know many of your 100+ colleagues. Collaborate with great people on our international teams who value knowledge sharing and unique ways of doing things! Be authentic! Work in a value-driven environment where everything may not be perfect, but we're working on it! Your feedback is required while you receive feedback and appreciation for your work! Help others! You can have up to 3 days of volunteer time off to help your favorite charity. Develop yourself! We offer training and mental health opportunities so that you can develop both mentally and professionally. And there is even more! Enjoy our free lunch, snacks and drinks, team events, 30 days of annual vacation + additional rest during Christmas season until New Year. If your child gets sick, we assure that a 100% of your usual earnings will be paid while you take care of your little one.
About Wandelbots
Wandelbots is a robotic software company based in Dresden, Germany.
With its no-code solution Wandelbots Teaching and the unified Wandelbots Developer Platform, the company enables the programming-free and uniform operation of robots. Through Wandelbots Teaching, working with different types of robots from a large scale of brands becomes effortless, and everyone can teach robots after a brief training. In this way, Wandelbots provides that robot programming is no longer the preserve of experts and carries out the automation process up to 20 times faster and ten times more cost-effectively.
This advanced technology has been implemented in robots from Universal Robots and Yaskawa and in the manufacturing operations of, among others, VW, Bayer, and Fraunhofer. The fast-growing company continues building new partnerships with OT system integrators in Germany, Europe, and the USA.
Among others, the German Start-up Award and the Sachsen Gründerpreis have been awarded to Wandelbots, which has grown from a start-up to an internationally recognized company with over 170 employees in a brief time.
Since its foundation in 2017, the company has raised a total of $123 million in funding from investors such as Insight Partners, Microsoft, and Next47 for further investments in products and platforms. Moreover, the company keeps expanding into new markets.
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Job details
Location
Dresden, Germany
Funding
Total raised
$123M
Last stage
Series C
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.