We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our cognitive platform team. In this role, you will be a key player in designing, building, and scaling the core backend systems and infrastructure that power our humanoid robot's cognitive platform. You will tackle complex challenges related to distributed systems, real-time communication, and high-performance computing, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the platform's brain. Your work will directly impact the robot's ability to process information, learn, and interact with the world. This is a unique opportunity to join a hi-tech robotics company and contribute to Oversonic’s mission to revolutionize human-robot interaction with cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions.
Main responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Python.
- Implement and optimize concurrent systems using asyncio, multithreading, and/or multiprocessing.
- Architect and build robust distributed systems components.




- Develop and manage real-time communication channels using WebSockets and Pub/Sub messaging systems (e.g., MQTT, NATS, Redis Pub/Sub).
- Write clean, efficient, testable, and well-documented code.
- Collaborate closely with frontend developers, robotics engineers, and infrastructure teams.
- Optimize application performance, identify bottlenecks, and ensure system reliability.
- Work with containerization (Docker) and orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes / Helm).
- Contribute to database design and management (noSQL and SQL).
- Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.
- (Nice to have) Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation efforts.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest backend technologies, concurrency patterns, and distributed systems best practices.

Requirements
- Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of profe

📌 Backend Software Engineer (Milano)
🏢 Oversonic Robotics
📍 Milano