# Senior Full Stack Engineer

**Company:** [NODA AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/noda-ai)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** C++, Python, React, Ros2, FastAPI, Postgres, WebSockets, JavaScript, TypeScript, Docker, AWS, Kafka, gRPC, Opencv, Prometheus
**Posted:** 2026-04-07

> Designs and builds scalable backend services with C++ and Python, ROS2 integrations, and React-based operator interfaces for autonomous vehicle orchestration platforms. Requires 5+ years full-stack experience and strong real-time systems knowledge.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend APIs and microservices using Python and C++ within an event-driven architecture for real-time orchestration operations
- Design and implement event-driven data pipelines that process telemetry, sensor feeds, and mission data from heterogeneous vehicle fleets using publish/subscribe patterns
- Develop responsive operator interfaces using **React** for mission planning, fleet coordination, and system monitoring
- Create WebSocket-based communications for low-latency operator interactions with autonomous systems
- Build data transformation and aggregation services that prepare autonomous system data for operator consumption
- Implement secure, role-based access controls and authentication systems for multi-user mission control environments
- Design and maintain database schemas and query optimization for high-throughput operational data
- Collaborate with autonomy engineers to integrate vehicle control systems and sensor data streams
- Support integration with diverse autonomous platforms through RESTful APIs, ROS2 topics, and message queuing systems
- Ensure application resilience and performance through comprehensive testing, monitoring, and deployment automation

## Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience building production systems
- Strong proficiency in **C++** with experience in systems programming and performance optimization
- Expert-level **Python** skills with experience in **FastAPI**, **Flask**, or **Django** frameworks
- Experience with **ROS2** middleware, including topics, services, and distributed robotics systems
- Proficiency in **JavaScript/TypeScript** and **React** with modern development practices
- Strong database design and optimization skills (**PostgreSQL**, NoSQL)
- Experience building real-time applications using **WebSockets**, message queuing, and event-driven data streaming
- Knowledge of RESTful API design principles, microservices architecture, and event-driven system patterns
- Understanding of Linux system programming and multi-threaded application development

## Preferred Qualifications
- **C++** multithreaded systems; **gRPC/Protobuf**; DB design/tuning
- Experience with robotics middleware beyond ROS2 (**DDS**, **MQTT**, or custom protocols)
- Knowledge of autonomous vehicle systems (UAVs, USVs, UUVs) and associated data formats
- Experience with real-time data streaming technologies (**Kafka**, **Redis Streams**, **ZeroMQ**)
- Familiarity with computer vision libraries and sensor data processing (**OpenCV**, **PCL**)
- Experience with container technologies (**Docker**) and cloud deployment (**AWS**)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems concepts
- Background in mission-critical or real-time system development
- Knowledge of geospatial data handling and coordinate system transformations
- Experience with observability tools (**Grafana**, **Prometheus**) and application performance monitoring
- Previous work in defense, aerospace, or autonomous systems industries

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