Full Stack Software Developer - Engineered Arts

About Engineered Arts

Engineered Arts is the leading manufacturer of full-size humanoid robots used for entertainment, education and communication. With 20 years of hardware and software development, our robots have been sold in over 30 countries worldwide with customers such as NASA, PwC, Meta and many more.

Our Ameca robot is well known as 'the face of AI' and a social media viral success, taking advantage of the generative AI craze. Along with our ultra-realistic Mesmer range of animated figures, our robots continue to surprise and excite visitors at museums, theme parks, visitor attractions and trade shows, as well as aid leading universities with AI and robotics research. Our robots are poised to break into the future mega-expansion service robot segment, with applications such as front of house, receptions, check-in desks, information points and PoS.

We are a team of dedicated engineers and creatives striving to develop the very best experiences for our customers. Our internal motto is 'Be Wow' — everything we do is fun, entertaining or surprising to encounter.

About You

You're a mid-to-senior full stack developer with a strong backend focus who thrives building reliable, scalable cloud software. You've shipped production features across APIs, data layers, and third-party integrations — and you know what it takes to build services that hold up when a provider is slow, a webhook arrives twice, or a customer's account state doesn't match what you expect. You bring strong Python skills, deep comfort with Django and GraphQL, and the debugging instincts to trace a problem across backend layers, services, and external platforms.

You care about architecture, but you're pragmatic — you understand that connecting a fleet platform to commerce, billing, and account systems demands clear contracts, idempotent workflows, and thoughtful failure modes, not just elegant abstractions. You can integrate quickly into a large, mature codebase, deliver value early, and keep quality high even as scope evolves. You're energised by ambiguity, patient with complexity, and motivated by software that lets customers provision, configure, and operate a fleet without the seams showing.

What You'll Do and How You'll Have an Impact

• Own the lifecycle of third-party integrations — build, test, and maintain connections to platforms such as Stripe, AppDirect, Odoo, HubSpot, and Devs.ai, and map them onto fleet, customer, billing, payments, and subscription data
• Design and evolve the GraphQL APIs and Python/Django services behind those flows on AWS, and work with the React monorepo on checkout and subscription management surfaces
• Harden the path between external platforms and our database: local data stores, caching, and asynchronous event queues that keep third-party and internal state from drifting apart
• Instrument event pipelines that track checkout funnels, billing states, and partner API health
• Debug issues that cross our services and external platforms, and raise testability, observability, and maintainability as you go
• Partner with product, UX, DevOps, and QA to turn requirements into shippable designs, with clear feedback on feasibility, risk, and sequencing
• Coach and support more junior developers, and raise the bar for quality across a complex, fast-moving codebase

What We're Looking For

• Deep Python experience, including asynchronous code. Django is what we run; FastAPI or Flask experience transfers cleanly
• A proven record with integration edge cases: webhook deduplication, idempotency, rate limiting, schema deprecation, and partial failure
• Hands-on AWS experience and solid transactional data modelling, with PostgreSQL preferred
• A pragmatic testing habit: automated integration and contract tests that hold up in CI without brittle live sandboxes
• Mid-to-senior experience shipping production backend software
• Comfortable debugging remote Linux services, with solid Git and CI/CD practice
• Clear communication with product, design, and other disciplines

Our Stack

• Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, WebSockets
• On-robot / AI: Async Python on Linux, LLM/TTS/STT integrations, RAG
• Delivery: Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Material-UI

Strong fundamentals and the ability to ramp into an existing codebase matter more than having used every tool before.

Nice to Have

• React / TypeScript frontend exposure — familiarity with how backend APIs are consumed in the UI is a plus
• Deeper commerce-platform experience: subscriptions, usage-based billing, invoicing, entitlements, and customer provisioning (Stripe or similar)
• Designing reliable integrations: webhooks, idempotency, retries, reconciliation, and keeping fleet and account state in sync with an external system
• Async/event-driven systems experience — asyncio, WebSockets, pub/sub messaging such as NATS or equivalents
• Realtime experience — WebRTC, media/signalling pipelines, or other latency-sensitive architectures
• Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS or similar)
• Strong debugging and observability habits — structured logs, metrics, and tracing
• OpenTelemetry or similar production telemetry experience

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