Full Stack Software Developer 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 Developers 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.

Youre a mid-to-senior full stack developer who thrives at the intersection of cloud software and physical systems. Youve shipped production features across UI APIs and device or edge runtimes and you know what it takes to build software that holds up when the hardware is real and the network is not. You bring strong TypeScript/React and Python skills deep comfort with GraphQL and Linux and the debugging instincts to trace a problem across front-end back-end and on-robot layers. Youre as comfortable designing a clean API contract as you are SSH-ing into a Linux service to chase down a flaky integration.

You care about architecture but youre pragmatic you understand that systems running on physical robots demand robustness repeatability 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. Youre energised by ambiguity patient with complexity and motivated by the moment a customers robot does something that genuinely creates wonder in the real world.

• Build and maintain React/TypeScript applications across our cloud platform with a strong focus on usability performance and maintainability including fleet configuration agent behaviour and realtime telepresence surfaces
• Design implement and evolve GraphQL APIs and the Python/Django backend services that power them writing clean tested scalable code across UI API and robot-facing components
• Develop and maintain on-robot Python services that bridge hardware local behaviour and cloud configuration improving reliability and repeatability under real-world network and hardware constraints
• Integrate and productise LLMs and AI pipelines including streaming tool calling RAG/knowledge bases and multi-provider TTS/STT turning ambiguous agent behaviour into clear product contracts with defined schemas permissions fallbacks and observability
• Optimise AI-powered robot experiences for latency cost and robustness building conversational experiences that feel natural on a physical humanoid not just in a controlled demo environment
• Debug issues that span front-end back-end and on-robot layers and proactively improve testability observability and maintainability as you go
• Partner with product UX DevOps QA and embedded engineers to turn requirements into shippable high-quality designs providing technical feedback on feasibility risk and sequencing
• Coach and support more junior developers; raise the bar for quality across a complex fast-moving codebase

• Mid-to-senior experience shipping production software as a full-stack developer
• Strong TypeScript React experience building complex responsive applications
• Strong Python backend experience; Django strongly preferred or clear transferable experience
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL APIs not only REST
• Comfortable working on Linux systems debugging remote services and navigating logs processes and packaging/deploy workflows
• Solid Git and collaborative development practices; writes tested maintainable code and understands CI/CD
• Working knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Demonstrated evidence of shipping features that span UI API an external runtime device edge IoT game client robot or similar
• Clear communication and collaboration with product design and other disciplines

Frontend: TypeScript React GraphQL Material-UI

Backend: Python Django PostgreSQL WebSockets

On-robot / AI: Async Python on Linux LLM/TTS/STT integrations RAG

Delivery: Docker Kubernetes GitLab CI

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

• Production experience with LLMs and related systems: streaming tool/function calling RAG/knowledge bases multi-provider TTS/STT and latency/cost trade-offs
• 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)
• Experience with physical or realtime systems where timing failure modes and repeatability matter
• Strong debugging and observability habits structured logs metrics and tracing
• C and/or Rust
• / WebGL
• Prior experience in robotics humanrobot interaction conversational agents or MCP/tool-platform integrations
• OpenTelemetry or similar production telemetry experience

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